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Kho Mu Yang, Charcoal
Somchai Ratanaporn
Grill chef, Mu Yang Suan Kaeo, Chiang Mai, TH
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Kho Mu Yang, Charcoal

5 h total40 min hands-onServes 4Easy

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One cut, one marinade, one fire — and a dipping sauce that does more work than the pork.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Charcoal grill, Mortar, Sharp slicer
Allergens
Soy, Fish, Molluscs
Method
16 steps · 14 photographed · 6 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
3, 15 min

2 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Rak phak chi marinade

Film

Coriander root, garlic and white pepper pounded to a paste, let down with oyster sauce and palm sugar.

This trio is the base of half of Thai cooking and none of it survives being swapped for coriander leaf or black pepper.

  • Coriander root000 g
  • Garlic000 g
Steps
5
Time
20 min
Hands-on
15 min

Makes Enough for 800 g pork

Up to 3 days ahead

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Nam jim jaew

Film

Fish sauce, lime and tamarind mixed with chilli flakes, shallot and freshly toasted ground rice.

Toasted rice powder goes stale in days and it is what gives jaew its body and nutty smell; the bought jars have none of it.

  • Glutinous rice000 g
  • Fish sauce000 g
Steps
6
Time
25 min
Hands-on
20 min

Makes 200 ml · best same day, keeps 3 days

Toast the rice up to a week ahead; mix on the day

Weights and method unlock on purchase
WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Pork neck000 g
  • Coriander root000 g
  • White peppercorns000 g
  • Garlic000 g
  • Oyster sauce000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 15 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING5:00

Pork neck: what to ask for and how thick

TECHNIQUE4:00

Toasting glutinous rice to the right colour

KIT6:00

Charcoal height and two-zone grilling

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 16 STEPS

14 photographed · 6 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 14 of the 16 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 6 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: rendering the fat without flare-ups — step 10 of 16.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 10 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Somchai Ratanaporn watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Resting before slicing, always across the grain

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Toasting rice in a dry wok, not an oven

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Basting with the marinade in the last minutes only

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The marinade time that seasons through without curing the surface, and the fire height that renders fat before it burns.

Written by Somchai Ratanaporn. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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