Zood Zood Restaurant Chiang Mai
Coming up for its 1 year anniversary, Zood Zood restaurant in Nimman Soi 9 is a unique Thai haunt popular with the arty students, the local Thai crowd and the masses of tourists which inhabit this trendy yet charming part of town situated barely a few clicks north-west of the old city.
Owned by Khun Kwang, 2 dishes feature here, the first: A satiating chicken green curry fried rice, not your bog standard chicken or pork fried dish which you’ll find in the West and second: A light spicy pork salad garnished with garlic, capsicum peppers, Pak Chi – or parsley, coconut sugar, salt, 3 freshly squeezed green lemons, fish sauce and a sprinkling of chopped bell peppers (depending on your bravery!).
Both can be rustled up in under 10 ten minutes, with the green curry fried rice dish taking barley 3 minutes and the pork strips being allowed a little longer – 7 mins approx to be grilled, fried or barbecued.
Zood Zood is extremely affordable with the cow pad gaeng keow wan gai setting you back as little as 35 Baht!
Stylish, clean, with excellent service, Khun Kwang’s restaurant boasts a powerful menu with many salmon dishes, rare northern recipes and an ever changing menu based on seasonal foods.
A variation of beers are also in stock to accompany your steak, salad, seafood, noodle soup or rice number.
A new menu is on the cards after Songkran 2015, with updates here to follow.
Watch this space!
Key health benefits:
Lean satiating healthy carbohydrate meal
Balance your Alkaline pH level
Stacked with vitamins & nutrients
Parsley promotes a healthy heart, inhibits tumor formation & is listed as a natural chemo-protective food.
Chicken Green Curry Fried Rice
Ingredients:
1/4 cup of coconut milk (no cooking oil needed)
3 tbsp of green curry paste
An ample portion of red & green capsicum peppers
Plenty of basil leaves
6 strips of lean chicken
A bowl of healthy rice of your choosing
2 tbsp of fish sauce
Spicy Pork Salad
Ingredients:
Strips of grilled neck pork garnished with a mix of crushed garlic, pepper, salt, Thai chilies & coconut sugar
1 small chopped tomato
1 small red onion
Hansome sprinkling of extra ground coconut sugar
2 tbsp of fish sauce
3 Freshly squeezed green lemons
Sliced Thai chilies of your choice
NOTE: The beauty of Thai food is that you’re allowed to explore different ingredients to add and remove and change portion sizes etc – nothing is written in stone.
If you’ve eaten at the Zood Zood Restaurant – we’d love to hear your comments below: