Thai style crab rice porridge or Joke Poo

Thai style crab rice porridge or Joke Poo; โจ๊กปู in Thai. If we are talking about Thai breakfast, this is one of the recipe that Thai like to have it for breakfast. It's delicious, comfort food and very good for someone feeling ill.

This recipe for two bowls of Joke Poo

Ingredients for the rice:
1) 2 cups cooked jasmine rice.
2) 4 cups water
3) 1/8 tsp salt
4) 2 Tbsp thin soy sauce

Ingredients for the soup :
1) 2 " length ginger
2) 5 cups ginger juice
3) 1/4 tsp salt
4) 1/2 cup crab meat
5) 1/8 white pepper

Ingredients for the garnish :
1) ground white pepper powder
2) thin soy sauce
3) finely slivered fresh ginger
4) finely sliced green onions
5) fried garlic

Preparation:
1) Boil cooked jasmine rice with water. Keep stirring constantly until the rice is very soft and breaks apart. I used whisk to broke apart of the rice for save sometime or you can use food processor .
2) Prepare the broth using a fresh ginger. Peel ginger and cut into small pieces.
3) Bring into a a blender. Strained to get 1/2 cup ginger juice. 4) Pour 5 cups water to boil, add salt and ground white pepper. When the soup is boiling for two minutes. Bring the crab meat to scald then set a side. Turn off the heat and save the soup for next steps.
5) Scoop cooked rice into another pot with 1 and 1/2 cups of broth.
6) Bring it to a boil, stirring, and season with salt and thin soy sauce.
7) Here is the garnish. Place the joke into a bowl.
8) Top crab meat, fried garlic, sliced green onions, slivered fresh ginger and sprinkle with Thai pepper powder.
9) Serve hot, it's delicious and enjoy.

Stir-fried Crab with Curry Powder

Stir-fried Crab with Curry Powder or "Poo Phat Phong Kari ปูผัดผงกะหรี่" This is very popular menu at Thailand. I got crab from the supermarket that already cooked and I have Chinese celery in my fridge. I would love to make the dish for our lunch. This isn't the good crab for the dish but it was good. I have to find big whole crab to make this recipe but I never find one. I made a big mass on the table which isn't fun to eat crab to me. I like it.

Ingredients:
1) 0.8 Lb. crab
2) 1 onion
3) 6 spring onions
4) 4 cups Chinese celery
5) 4 fresh chillies
6) 2 Tbsp canola oil

Ingredients for the sauce:
1) 1/3 cup evaporated milk( I used soy milk)
2) 1 egg
3) 2 Tbsp fish sauce or thin soy sauce
4) 2 Tbsp oyster sauce
5) 2 Tbsp Chilli Paste in soy bean oil ( Numprik pao)
6) 2 tsp curry powder

Preparation:
1) Open cooked crab from the package and set aside.
2)Wash and cut Chinese celery into 1 " length.
3) Remove chilies stems and slice.
4)Wash green onion and peel onion, cut green onion into 1 " length and slice onion.
5) In the mixing bowl, add oyster sauce, fish sauce, curry powder, milk, Chilli Paste in soy bean oil ( Numprik pao)
6) Beat egg in the mixing bowl. Then set aside.
7) Heat canola oil in the pan on medium heat.
8) When oil is hot add sliced onion. Stir fry until fragrant.
9) Pour the mixture into the pan.
10) And stir-fry until the mixture mix together.
11) Add crab into the pan.Keep stir thoroughly until the sauce get into the crab.
12) Add cut Chinese celery.
13) Add cut green onion and stir well until vegetables is getting soft.
14) Add sliced fresh chilies.
15) stir regularly for 2 minutes, then remove from the heat. Enjoy it!