Brooklyn1 wrote:
> 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

Sure, but it's entirely inappropriate for Thai (etc.) food.

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Jean B.