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Kuaitiao Ruea, Boat Noodles
Wanida Saetang
Chef-owner, Ruea Khlong Rangsit, Ayutthaya, TH
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Kuaitiao Ruea, Boat Noodles

4 h total60 min hands-onServes 4Medium

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The broth is thickened with blood at the bowl, which is why it looks like that and tastes like nothing else.

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
Stockpot, Noodle basket, Fine sieve, Small ladle
Allergens
Soy, Gluten, Fish
Method
24 steps · 19 photographed · 7 filmed
Components
3 made from scratch
Films
3, 15 min

3 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».

Spiced beef broth

Film

Beef bones and shin simmered with cinnamon, star anise, coriander seed and dark soy for four hours.

Boat noodle broth is a spiced broth first and a beef broth second; the spice ratio is what separates it from ordinary beef noodle soup.

  • Beef bones000 g
  • Beef shin000 g
Steps
8
Time
4 h
Hands-on
30 min

Makes 3 L · keeps 3 days refrigerated

Up to 2 days ahead

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Blood tempering

Film

Fresh pig's blood loosened with a little cool broth, then stirred into each hot bowl off the heat.

Poured into the pot it seizes into grains and the broth goes grainy. Tempered per bowl it thickens smooth and stays that way.

  • Pig's blood000 g
  • Cool broth000 g
Steps
3
Time
10 min
Hands-on
8 min

Makes Enough for 4 bowls

No — done at service

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Crispy pork rind

Pork skin simmered, dried hard, then fried twice until it puffs.

This is the crunch the bowl needs against a thick broth, and the shop-bought bags go soft the moment they are wet.

  • Pork skin000 g
  • Fine salt000 g
Steps
6
Time
3 h
Hands-on
25 min

Makes 150 g · keeps 1 week airtight

Up to 1 week ahead

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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.

  • Beef shin000 g
  • Beef bones000 g
  • Pig's blood000 g
  • Cinnamon000 g
  • Star anise000 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.

CHOOSING6:00

Sourcing blood, and what to use if you cannot

TECHNIQUE5:00

Tempering blood without curdling it

KIT4:00

Blanching noodles in a basket, four seconds

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 24 STEPS

19 photographed · 7 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 19 of the 24 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 7 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: tempering the blood without splitting it — step 14 of 24.

  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. + 18 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

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

  1. 01

    Small bowls on purpose

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Noodles blanched to order, never held

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Balancing each bowl at the table with chilli and vinegar

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

How much blood the broth takes before it splits, and the spice quantities that flavour without turning it into five spice soup.

Written by Wanida Saetang. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

666 verified cooks · 87% said it worked

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