On 2 Jul 2012 14:02:34 GMT, notbob > wrote:

>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!

Their pina colada mix is 38% pineapple juice, it's not bogus, it's an
excellent product: http://cocolopez.com/pinacoladamix.html

Coconut cream and coconut milk are very easy to find, every
stupidmarket I've ever been to carries the full range of Coco Lopez
products: http://cocolopez.com/products.html