Comments on: Thai Recipe: Son-In-Law Eggs

By: Jannita

Jannita — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:51:24 +0000

My favourite dish… might have to pop my chicken back in the fridge and opt for eggs tonight!

They are called son in law eggs (kai luk koei) because it’s the story of when a man was making dinner for his father in law and was late so couldnt cook anything grand and the only food he had was eggs so he quickly made this and his father in law loved it… that’s the story i was told anyway! My mother is Thai so i hear all the stories and enjoy Thai food most nights of the week :D bonus!

By: Yvie

Yvie — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:58:17 +0000

I heard somewhere that it was son-in-law eggs because they are so good that it will keep your son-in-law happy (stay a happy faithful husband)!

By: Ravi

Ravi — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:16:29 +0000

Very interesting. I saw this on the Master Chef Australia program on telly and was tempted since then. Want to try it soon. Only difference was that they were going on and on about the eggs being cooked to runny consistency when they are cut for eating. Wonder if any one else came across this and how does that compare with the hard boiled version.

By: zafer cetinoz

zafer cetinoz — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:16:43 +0000

Childishness aside, nice recipie, I’m looking forward to attempting this. I’ve bookmarked this site as it seems to have many bits of goodness

By: tushika

tushika — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:32:37 +0000

This receipte also look very interesting and easy. Please let us have the DAUGHTER IN LAW egg receipte. Wish to compare the difference.
Thanks.
Please I wish to prepare a VERY CRISPY slice oyster . Kindly see if you can help.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:17:42 +0000

Hi there, I often eat this from my local takeaway here in Melbourne, its also in a cookbook I own. The name comes from the dish’s origin. It was apparently made for the first time by a guy when his future mother in law was coming for dinner with him and his soon to be wife, he wasn’t much of a cook so boiled some eggs, fried them and combined them with a typical Thai sauce using classic Thai ingredients. He was obviously succesful as they are not “ex-boyfriend eggs” or “stupid man eggs”! Anyway, thought I’d contribute that, great blog, I’m on my way back to South East Asia in November and cannot wait.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:52:09 +0000

I came across your post and you were wondering why this dish is called “Son-in-law eggs”?

haha… I read in a cookbook once.

Apparently, this dish is one of the simplest dish there is for a potential son-in-law to impress his future in-laws with. He can prep this dish and have low risk of failure and yet impress his future in-laws with its beautiful presentation.

There you have it. Gender discrimination, but on the other side :-P

By: tary

tary — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:37:52 +0000

hi there, surely like the others i would say that this looks good.
But i was wondering if we can apply the tamarind sauce with others stuff.
I often ate at “malay village” the serve deep fried enoki & deep fried kangkoong with sum kinda sauce that taste sour and a bit spicy, was it the same like this one??

hpe to hear from u soon

By: shaikhmohammed

shaikhmohammed — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:55:44 +0000

is there any subtitute for plum sauce?

By: Rasa Malaysia

Rasa Malaysia — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:35:10 +0000

Leng – thanks for loving my recipes. Yes, this son-in-law eggs are absolutely delicious.