About this dish
Golden threads of duck egg yolk cooked in jasmine-scented syrup, a sweet symbolising lasting love.
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Ingredients
🥚10 duck egg yolks (or hen egg yolks)
🍬500g sugar
💧500ml water
🌼Jasmine flowers or pandan leaves, to scent the syrup
Method
Serves 21
Strain the yolks through a cloth so they are completely smooth.2
Boil the sugar and water with the jasmine or pandan into a light syrup, keeping it at a gentle boil.3
Pour the yolk through a cone with a tiny hole, circling over the syrup to make fine threads.4
Cook for about 1 minute until set, then lift out with a skewer.5
Fold the threads into neat bundles and leave to cool.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Foi thong was introduced to the Ayutthaya court in the 17th century by Maria Guyomar de Pinha, a cook of Portuguese and Japanese descent, and is served at Thai weddings.
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