On 2012-07-02, Jim Elbrecht > wrote:

> I looked for the Mae Ploy on my last trip to the Asian Supermarket.
> They have the Mae Ploy sweet chili sauce, so I was expecting to find
> it. Nope- Chaokah coconut *Cream*- but no milk.

Wow!! Jump on some Choakah coconut cream! Usually, coconut cream, by
itself, is hard to find. I've only run across it a couple times, in
dozens of Asian mrkts, typically in frozen foods. NEVER seen it in a
can.

As for Choakah vs Mae Ploy coconut milk, they usta be about equal in
quality, the two premier Thai brands. Kasma Loha-unchit, my go-to gal
on all things Thai, goes into detail on Thai ingredients he

http://www.thaifoodandtravel.com/ingredients.html

......see coconut milk:

http://www.thaifoodandtravel.com/ing...s/cocmilk.html

The mark of a good can of coconut milk is the percentage of coconut
cream to watery milk. Both these brands are 1/3rd to 1/2 cream, or
usta be. At one time, Kasma issued a warning on her blog that both
brands had severly decreased in quality, greatly reducing the amount
of cream per can. I don't see that warning, now, so perhaps things
have returned to normal. Anyway, since then, I've always grabbed
coconut cream whenever I found it. I suggest you do likewise if yer
serious about Thai cooking. Never hurts to have it on hand. You can
always add cream to lesser canned brands of coconut milk, like Taste
of Thai, and it freezes perfectly. Also, be aware Coco Lopez brand,
that stuff fer pina coladas, is bogus. Avoid entirely, except fer,
well, pina coladas!

happy Thai cooking
nb




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