Whether you want to learn to cook easy Asian food or would like to have a special private dining in your own comfortable home. Chef Yui got it all covered for you.
Whether you want to learn to cook easy Asian food or would like to have a special private dining in your own comfortable home. Chef Yui got it all covered for you.
Crying Tiger Café is my cooking service from my home to yours with love, from cookery lesson, cooking demo to private dinning. Crying Tiger is named after a classic Thai dish called Sua Rong Hai in Thai, which mean Weeping Tiger or Crying Tiger. It’s a dish with grilled marinated beef, medium rare and usually served with a spicy dipping sauce call Nam Jim Jeaw and sticky rice.
The name of the dish is based on a few myths. Some say its because, in the old days it was made out of a cheap cut of beef so tough that even a tiger couldn’t chew it, so he becomes sad and weepy. Others say that it’s the opposite: the steak comes from the tenderest part of the cow leaving the tiger nothing but the tough parts. A much less convincing theory says the dipping sauce is so hot it makes a tiger cry.
I cooked the dish on MasterChef UK 2019, which wowed the judges and won me a place in the quarterfinal!
An authentic Thai street food dish brought to you by the Crying Tiger Café.
I come from a strong Thai-Chinese family where cooking and eating have always been a focal point of family life. My parents had always cooked traditional Thai and Chinese inspired dishes throughout my childhood, which I helped prepare and cook from a very young age. My mum was the first person to teach me to cook traditional Thai dishes passed on to her from my Grandma. My early childhood memory was being woken up at 4 am to prepare food to feed the monks at my local temple, which we would share after morning preys.
Graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Science Statistic in Bangkok, Thailand and moved to the UK in 2001 after married, I began to learn to cook more western and British food which adding my own Asian twist. I have followed my heart and passion for authentic Asian cuisine showcasing my dishes on BBC’s MasterChef UK 2019 as a quarterfinalist and Channel 4’s Beat the Chef. Also the winner of ICG Keen Home Cooks competition in 2020
With my love of cooking and food photography, I have a strong passion for authentic Asian dishes and flavours. I have built a sizable, engaging audience on social media (Instagram) and am actively working with leading brands to promote products on my platform with the ability to reach out to likeminded consumers.
I have worked with Sainsbury , Amoy and other brands creating unique Asian recipes for their website and social media. Work with Authority tourism of Thailand on many occasions for example creating Thai recipes and did some cooking demonstrations at Hampton court food festival, The Destinations holiday event. Cooking demonstrations at Foodie Festivals and many more summer food festivals in the UK. I also work with The Office of Commercial Affairs, Royal Thai Embassy in London, UK to create Thai recipes and cooking videos to promote Thai products and Thai food on social medias.
Apart from and cooking demonstrations and creating recipes with brands, I am a private chef, I have been doing many Thai private dining at clients’ homes, supper clubs and pop-up restaurants. I am a freelance cookery teacher and have been teaching cookery classes since 2019. My class is relaxed with clear and easy to follow recipes plus many tips to recreate the dishes at home with ingredients readily available from the local stores.
My very first cookbook called ‘Thai Made Easy’ was out last year on 28th September 2023 which is now selling in the UK, US and Australia. With clear, uncomplicated instructions and accessible, supermarket-friendly swaps for traditional Thai ingredients is the aim for my cookbook Thai Made Easy to demystifies the process of cooking flavourful Thai dashes at home.
I come from a strong Thai-Chinese family where cooking and eating have always been a focal point of family life. My parents had always cooked traditional Thai and Chinese inspired dishes throughout my childhood, which I helped prepare and cook from a very young age. My mum was the first person to teach me to cook traditional Thai dishes passed on to her from my Grandma. My early childhood memory was being woken up at 4 am to prepare food to feed the monks at my local temple, which we would share after morning preys.
Graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Science Statistic in Bangkok, Thailand and moved to the UK in 2001 after married, I began to learn to cook more western and British food which adding my own Asian twist. I have followed my heart and passion for authentic Asian cuisine showcasing my dishes on BBC’s MasterChef UK 2019 as a quarterfinalist and Channel 4’s Beat the Chef. Also the winner of ICG Keen Home Cooks competition in 2020
With my love of cooking and food photography, I have a strong passion for authentic Asian dishes and flavours. I have built a sizable, engaging audience on social media (Instagram) and am actively working with leading brands to promote products on my platform with the ability to reach out to likeminded consumers.
I have worked with Sainsbury , Amoy and other brands creating unique Asian recipes for their website and social media. Work with Authority tourism of Thailand on many occasions for example creating Thai recipes and did some cooking demonstrations at Hampton court food festival, The Destinations holiday event. Cooking demonstrations at Foodie Festivals and many more summer food festivals in the UK. I also work with The Office of Commercial Affairs, Royal Thai Embassy in London, UK to create Thai recipes and cooking videos to promote Thai products and Thai food on social medias.
Apart from and cooking demonstrations and creating recipes with brands, I am a private chef, I have been doing many Thai private dining at clients’ homes, supper clubs and pop-up restaurants. I am a freelance cookery teacher and have been teaching cookery classes since 2019. My class is relaxed with clear and easy to follow recipes plus many tips to recreate the dishes at home with ingredients readily available from the local stores.
My very first cookbook called ‘Thai Made Easy’ was out last year on 28th September 2023 which is now selling in the UK, US and Australia. With clear, uncomplicated instructions and accessible, supermarket-friendly swaps for traditional Thai ingredients is the aim for my cookbook Thai Made Easy to demystifies the process of cooking flavourful Thai dashes at home.