This article is adapted from the February 15, 2025, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. My favorite source for Thai recipes is Pailin Chongchitnant’s blog and YouTube channel Hot Thai Kitchen, and I recently decided to make her Thai-style biryani. Thailand has a lot of Indian influence, and I was intrigued to learn there was a Thai version of what I usually think of as a South Asian dish. I was also interested to notice two differences from typical South Asian biryanis in the…
