Kaeng Hung Leh Recipe

Kaeng Hung Leh, Hang Lay Curry or Burmese curry is a rich curry made with pork belly and spices and flavours like chillies, salt, shallots, shrimp, garlic, sweet soy sauce, turmeric powder and marsala powder, a popular curry that is found primarily in Chiang Mai and all over northern Thailand This dish was believed to have come all the way from India through the northern Burmese border from a curry called “Wet Tha Hin“. Unlike usual Thai dishes it has a strong influence from Burma where it is evident on the flavours like turmeric and ginger, it is also herbaceous, a bit bitter, salty but not too hot unlike its Thai counterparts. But even with those properties this has become an iconic dish of the North Thailand.It’s a very complex flavoured…