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Thong yot / Thong yod (dessert)

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Thong yot (golden yolk drops) is an ancient Thai dessert. It is often served at important celebrations and ceremonies, including weddings.

Thong yot recipe

Ingredients

6 cups + 1 cup of water

10 cups + 1 cup of castor sugar

15 egg yolks

4 to 10 tablespoons of Thong Yot flour, which is a wheat flour and rice flour mixture

Instructions

  1. Make a heavy syrup from 6 cups of water and 10 cups of castor sugar.
  2. Make a lighter syrup from 1 cup of water and 1 cup of castor sugar.
  3. Strain the egg yolks through muslin. Squeeze.
  4. Blend the egg yolks until they are thick and fluffy; this can take 15-20 minutes.
  5. Put the egg batter in a bowl and add 4 tablespoons of flour. Mix well.
  6. Bring the heavy syrup to a rolling boil.
  7. Use your thumb, index and middle fingers to grasp some egg batter, lift it in a sweeping motion across the rim of the bowl, and drop it into the boiling syrup. Is the batter difficult to grasp? Mix in more flour until the batter reaches desired thickness.
  8. When a drop is ready, remove it from the boiling water and place it in the lighter syrup.
  9. Continue until all drops are ready. You can make many drops at once in the same pot, as long as you don’t put in so much batter that the water cools down and the boiling stops.

The Nine Auspicious Thai Desserts

The Nine Auspicious Thai Desserts are an important part of many major celebrations in Thailand, such as weddings and ordinations. In addition to being delicious, they confer blessings on the recipient. Each dessert is tied to a certain blessing, which is why all nine deserts tend to be served together on the same tray – you want your guests to receive all nine blessings.

Tong yod (also known as tong yot)

Tong means gold in Thai, and gold is a symbol of wealth and good luck. This dessert consist of round egg yolk drops, and is a blessing for continuous and sustained wealth.

Tong yip

Tong yip is made form roughly the same ingredients as tong yod, but the syrup is scented with jasmin and the shape of the “gold” is different. Instead of making round balls, you make five-point stars and place them to cool and firm up inside small porcelain cups.

As you already know, tong means gold in Thai. Yip means “to pick something up” and this dessert is a blessing for increased wealth. The idea is that what you touch and pick up in life will turn into gold.

Foy Tong

Just like the two desserts above, foy tong is made from egg yolks and has a wonderfully golden colour. Foy tong consists of sweet shredded egg yolk and looks like golden noodles. Noodles symbolizes things that are long-lasting, such as a long-lasting life or a long-lasting relationship. Foy tong is a blessing for long lasting love and good fortune.

To make foy tong, you pour the yolk batter through a narrow tunnel and into a pot of syrup, creating long yellow strands. During the next step, a long and pointed piece of wood is used to stir the strands until they become smooth. Remove the strands from the heat and wrap them around themselves.

Tong ek

Tong ek is made from egg yolks, wheat flour and plenty of sugar. It symbolizes faithfulness and its therefore especially meaningful at weddings. Tong ake is carved into the shape of a flower and is rather difficult to make. It is the most elaborately shaped of the tong-deserts.

Kanom chan

Kanom chan is a nine-layered dessert made from coconut milk, sugar and flour. Kanom chan is a blessing for career advancements and continual success in life. The recipe includes tapioca flour, rice flour, arrowroot flour, coconut milk, sugar and jasmine-scented water.

In the past, this was a rose-shaped dessert instead of a stacked layered one.

Med kanoon

This dessert is made from mashed steamed beans and coconut milk, that is stirred until it gets thick and then rolled into small balls. Each ball is dipped in egg yolk and cooked in syrup. Each piece is shaped like a jackfruit (khanun in Thai). Khanun is pronounced like kanoon, and the word noon means support in Thai. This dessert is a blessing for support from others.

Ja Mong Gut (also known as Cha Mong Kut)

Mongkut means crown in Thai and Ja Mongkut means “owner of the crown”. The dessert therefore symbolizes elevated work positions and work promotions. Ja Mong Kut is often served when job promotions are celebrated. Making Jah Mong Kut is rather time consuming.

Ja Mong Gut is sometimes confused with Dara Thong. Both desserts include sugar, flour and roasted watermelon seeds. However, the flour used in Ja Mong Gut is scented, and bean flour is also included. The flour used for Dara Thong is not scented; Dara Thong contains jasmine-scented water instead. Another big difference is that Ja Mong Gut contains coconut milk while Dara Thong gets its fat from egg yolk.

Ja Mong Kut was invented during the rule of King Rama II, while Dara Thong was created in the 1930s by Dame Jue Nakornrachaseni.

Sanay chan

Sanay chan is made from minced coconut, flour, sugar, egg yolk and chan (nutmeg). Sanay means charm in Thai and chan is short for luk chan which is the Thai name for nutmeg. Chan is pronounced just like jan, which is the moon. Sanay chan is a blessing for the love between husband and wife to be as big and beautiful as the full moon. Sanay chan is therefore extra important at weddings.

Tuay fu (also known as Tuay foo)

This is a light and fluffy dessert made from rice flour, sugar, baking powder, food colouring and jasmine essence. The rising pastry symbolizes the growing strength of love, from young love to mature love. It can also be a blessing for general improvements in life. The word fu (foo) means to rise or to increase, and tuany fu means rising bowl.