Five Spice Pork Belly Stew w/ Eggs (Instant Pot & Stovetop Recipe) “Kai Palo" ไข่พะโล้

This part-soup-part-stew is one of my favourite dishes growing up in Thailand. Hard boiled eggs, tender pork belly and tofu puffs in a sweet-salty fragrant five spice broth. It's super popular amongst kids, but adults love it too! This was a staple at my school cafeteria in Thailand. It's also a great make-ahead dish that only gets better with time.
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About Pai:
Pailin “Pai” Chongchitnant is the author of the Hot Thai Kitchen cookbook, co-host of a Canadian TV series One World Kitchen on Gusto TV, and creator and host of the KZbin channel Pailin's Kitchen.
Pai was born and raised in southern Thailand where she spent much of her "playtime" in the kitchen. She traveled to Canada to study Nutritional Sciences at the University of British Columbia, and was later trained as a chef at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in San Francisco.
After working in both Western and Thai professional kitchens, she decided that her passion really lies in educating and empowering others to cook at home via KZbin videos, her cookbook, and cooking classes. She currently lives in Vancouver, and goes to Thailand every year to visit her family. Visit her at hot-thai-kitchen.com

[@shaunanthony3895]

Omg she's teaching everything my mom used to cook for me 😭😭 brings back so much memories...

[@taejaeminie1717]

Raise your hands if searching for 'Kai Palo recipe' after watching Enchanté (thai bl series) is there any one like me? 🙋🏻‍♀️😂

[@ahhwe-any7434]

Not me bc there's variations of this & I doubt it's called the same per asian country. I just saw a short, clicked, & attempted to follow. So, this is on my feed now. I'm lao, & I really don't remember growing up on pork belly. Although I'm sure my elders used alotta fatty meats for this, I just don't remember it being that fatty. Bc as an asian, I think I've always been "funny" w/ food. Even for an asian, lol. Anyways, that short said ,"this'll bring you back." I cut up alotta ginger, & was surprised how much kick it had through all that cooking & how small I cut it up. But it was that taste that brought me back. I prob made a more diluted version but it was still pretty yummy. Almost $30 worth of pork belly... At least it's lasted me a week +

[@ankita.jackson]

Same here 😂

[@adoleadole1318]

Same

[@FourthNattawat1829]

Im here because of my boo, moo’s fave dish

[@HulIris]

bro me too!🤣🤣

[@mercy1990]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! My mom passed away before she could teach me how to make this. She would make this a lot for us when I was growing up. It was my favorite food growing up and a comfort food for me.

[@lauraellen189]

This is one of my favorite Thai dishes that is never seen on a restaurant menu! I used to eat it at Thai parties or weddings. Now i can make it myself!!

[@paradisearcade8386]

Having gone to the same school in Thailand, I definitely remember eating this regularly. Thanks for the recipe! Can already feel the nostalgia

[@darlene4690]

You don’t understand how grateful I am for this video. This is one of my families favorite dishes. I can now make this for my family. 💙 Thank you so much. 🙏🏽

[@pauleychitkuer9631]

My childhood nostalgia! I haven't had it in a while! My favorite one of my favorite Thai dish!

[@donaldbouton3817]

When I was little. I use to ask my mom to make that brown egg dish. This is one of my favorite and it always bring back memories for me too. Thank you for sharing this recipe.

[@kookieg.5199]

Im here because of enchante hehe

[@jinhuazhang8520]

Yeah! Finally you updated! I was so looking forward to your new video!

[@brihrtl]

I just found your channel today and I'm kicking myself for not knowing about it earlier! I've been dying for more Thai recipes, since I sadly don't have much experience with authentic Thai cuisine, but I've been itching to fix that. I can't wait to try some of these- thank you for sharing your knowledge and smiles with the world!

[@olyomune556]

Ms. Pailin, Thank you for doing this video. I'm now reminiscing sitting in my school cafeteria chowing down on it. You're absolutely right! This dish is every kids favorite in Thailand. Sure brings back good memories!! - A fan in San Diego, CA.

[@SylvieTruong]

In Vietnam we have a variation of this dish and it's also a staple, pretty much always the first thing I think of when buying pork belly. We don't use five spices though, just fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar, onion, and garlic. I'm gonna try your version, it looks delicious, and I love the adding of tofu, that's genius.

[@CaffeinatedCoffee15]

All the brown sauces is THE perfect description haha. Basically me whenever I braise anything

[@KPuppychow]

I’ve been waiting for this recipe for so long!!!

[@ShaiYammanee]

I was just thinking about Kai Palo. My father used to make it when I was growing up and it was one of my favorite dishes. I’m definitely going to have to make this now. 😃

[@SciFiGeorge]

Another toe tapping, mouth watering video from my favorite Canadian Thai Kitchen Chef! ❤🇨🇦🤤👍🏾👍🏾

[@jeanfranl305]

Great video! One of my most favorite Thai dishes! Had several different versions of this one, but I'm always interested in a new version like yours. Thank you for your recipe

[@Cirindell]

This looks amazing and simple at the same time! Will definitely be trying it soon.

[@KippOth]

when i was young . when this menu is outcome everyone so excited! (Thai primary school random menu every week heheh

[@nomegustaperonoquieredecir3514]

THIS IS SOOO GOOD!!! My mom always does this when she want's to cheer me up

[@lerchan]

I actually love the rubbery home styled eggs they are great but this looks so clean and pretty

[@Baxterthewaggster]

I love that dish!!! I had it in Thailand for the first time. It’s one of my faves!

[@mariaferrer3679]

Omg! Your sinigang video appeared on my feed... of course I watched it as it’s my fave dish.. but I decided to check out more of your vids and i am now wishing i hadn’t coz I am literally salivating! Lol I am loving your vids! Very helpful tips and i can’t wait to try this one! Thank u!

[@Vinilalari]

Loved this recipe. Never heard of this dish, I am going to do it. Thanks! 😊😊😊

[@lindakeo830]

One of my fave dishes growing up 😊

[@daraneetang5698]

This is definitely a childhood dish! 😍

[@gmk316]

Reminds me of my childhood. I still ask for this dish when I go back to visit my parents.

[@PhilTravel]

I love this dish. My Thai friend in Nottingham cooked it for me it before.

[@alltimesk8er1]

I'm your biggest fan from California, USA. Love all your videos

[@terryc47]

Pailin, thank you, from Melbourne. Cooked this tonight, absolutely delicious. Now to find a Thai salad to serve along with this dish. Keep up the great work.

[@2010redshift]

You don't make friends with SALAD!!! Rice is the go man.

[@user-pk6vu7sp3k]

Omg your commetry is giving so family vibe ..I just love Thai culture 🥹❤️

[@yummytummy88]

Ah. This dish bring back good memory of, not childhood but meal last month. Thanks for the reminder, I think I will make this dish this weekend. I also use 5 spices but adds few item to make it more flavorful, oyster sauce, preserve vegetables, shiitaki mushroom. Keep up the deliciousness.

[@barbaragoodson8212]

Thank you for this recipe... my mom used to make this alot when we was kids and we all loved it.. mom is gone now, so these recipes are a gift to me..

[@danaburton7459]

OMG Pailin you're hilarious in this video. I love it. Kai Palo brings me back to all my childhood summer schools at Wat Thai. Thanks for making this video.

[@aileengregas910]

Yes I really like this its one of my favorite when I was in taiwan.

[@Anouvong100]

My FAVOURITE!! My mum makes this so much I never get sick of it. FYI, Ottolenghi has a surprisingly great version of this in Nopi.

[@2010redshift]

Not interested in"Otto's" version quite frankly!

[@JustNoAmbition]

It's been so long since I grew up in Thailand I forgot about this dish, but man I'm going to go grocery shopping and I'm making this tomorrow

[@HollaAtChaNiP]

You’re so funny and charming sis lol I find myself smiling watching your videos

[@CloakedC]

I love it when my fork is pork tender too. Also, loved this dish when I was a kid

[@JinSeng562]

Absolutely amazing 👏. Thank you for sharing. 💯. Blessed 🙌

[@a.081xx]

I had a craving for Kai Palo after moving far from my parents, so hopefully this tastes just as good. Childhood memories 🥰

[@semco72057]

That dish is looking so delicious and I have to try making it and I have an Instant Pot and is beginning to use it more often to cook in and especially with the accessories I have for it. Boiled eggs is my favorite so far and I use the appliance to make them which I use in my salads.

[@Potatodude223]

I wish you were my next door neighbor!!! Keep up the videos! Theyre so insightful! Im learning thai watching your channel!

[@hoku51]

My favorite dish, my mom would make this for us, so good.

[@seantwentyfour471]

As a new subscriber and horrible cook (me), but i got an instant pot and love pork belly, you sold me. I'm going to make this tomorrow night! It seems to have everything I love. As for you, great presentation with just enough comedy to make me laugh and laziness i can identify with, and even educational (I learned new Thai words today, yay). Loved it!

[@240guy9]

When you see the “Pailin Shimmy” you know it’s good

[@nenylei1422]

Oh Yum saving this so I can make , another recipe from my Mom and in law that used to make. Definitely an Autumn/ winter warmer💯🤙🏼😍😍😍

[@cy24]

Looks so good!! I shall try to make it in my instant pot.

[@christian9365]

"all the The brown sauces" - this so much of an "Male Thing" :D I feel you Adam! thank you for rolling out these vids. love them sice 4 years in a row now. greetings from an german viewer

[@kwonguk]

She is so good! So funny and such easy but tasty recipe

[@mzbaddog3271]

that looks amazing!!

[@DailyLifeandNature]

Good food , nice recipes, thanks for sharing a video .

[@oygeeringh7547]

Yep! one of my favourite dishes growing up in Thailand. Love it when you admit 'laziness' and 'my way' cause that's how it is in my house. lol

[@DanteOokami]

Thank You!!! I miss eating Kai Palo, as I ate it since my childhood.

[@tommylee2636]

Mmmm... remind me when I was little, my grandma make this dish with brown sugar. The pork taste super sweet and the eggs are totally dark brown. Yum!

[@gerardacronin3095]

“Elementary school cafeteria” and “so good” are phrases not often heard together! 😂 I have an Instant Pot and I am thinking I could minimize the dishwashing by steaming the eggs in the Instant Pot before starting the stew, and by sautéing the pork in the Instant Pot.

[@sh3n3ng]

that's how you know she went to quite fancy elementary school.

[@zucchinigreen]

@@sh3n3ng Or she didn't go to school in America.

[@butter5144]

@@zucchinigreen 😂

[@noemijurado8962]

Wish they had this at my school growing up Lol

[@KerryfromPauoa]

Loved your happy dance at the tasting😋

[@peterstang]

This recipe is not unlike some Chinese recipe that I like. Thank you very much for the demo.

[@leiawapuhi01]

Thanks Pai, I will try this. You always make everything you cook so delicious and Yummy!!! Lucky Craig and Kaan!!! and Adam!!

[@mikeyd946]

Yum! Looks delicious!

[@Xenglauv]

Hello pai looks sooooo good!

[@DeepSpaceX]

Cooking is art. No matter how many video tutorials I follow I just can't learn cooking. Following step by step should work but it is different than the video each time.

[@themiddlepath8685]

Youre not alone🤣

[@loveyou-pw6by]

Sawadee ka khun pailen. Thanku for your recipes. I made this like once in a week. Thank u!! God bless 🙏

[@chrissaengvanich3252]

I was just thinking of this. Trying to get my son to try more Thai food.. this will be my next try.

[@funsky77]

New subscriber here. So belated congratulations on having a 6 month old baby! Your bubbliness is even more amazing, despite the lack of sleep from having a baby! 😍

[@BestgirlJordanfish]

Ahh this is a favorite. My Viet parents have something similar but using parts that show up in beef stew or curry like stewing beef or carrots or onions.

[@christinedowd1820]

Yes the Vietnamese version with beef is delicious, like a 5 spice beef stew sometimes with hot pepper.

[@vqjohnston1]

I see your mom sass showing through on this video 😂🤣😂🤣 I love it! You’re like I don’t have time for that 😂

[@janie7242]

Your stew was very similar to the Chinese (Taiwanese) style pork or beef stew! Yummy! :) The only difference was the sauce base, much simpler. And also using brown sugar or Rock sugar instead of Palm sugar. But it should taste almost the same, I believed. Thank you for showing the viewers your Thai style version. :) Six-month-old baby now? Time certainly flew by quickly! A one-pot meal will do well in a busy life for sure. Haha.....:)

[@dramapranth6391]

i came here from" Enchant the" 🤍🖤🤍I loved how Theo made this wonderful dish

[@yanglu9555]

Pailin your making me hungry....! I've make this dish a lot. This dish is easy and simple to make. I do it a bit differently and get more of the aroma when I wake up the next day. The way that I cook it is by using a slow cooker to cook them. I would also add carrots, scallions, potatoes and dried red/hot peppers and set the cooking temperature to low the previous night and it will be ready the next day. It is the best way to cook whenever having kids.

[@timotot123]

Wow! Looks awesome 👍👍👍. I'd love to try it with pickled garlic as well to intensify the flavour

[@Aryantics]

Yummy! And congratulations on being a new mommy!!

[@Dragonstylejb1]

Your right..every thai's favorite all the way from childhood. I make my own now but my mom makes it better of course lol. Next day batch is better..yes. egg will get darker and infused..so awsome! I also splash a little fish sauce on rice at the end.

[@davidtruell2690]

My buddy married a Thai woman, and while I lived with them, she would make this, and sweet spicy eggs, amazing noodles. It was dope.

[@jennyonsamer1862]

I was watching this video because I wanted to learn how to make my favourite Thai dish and I realized you had the same bowl and tongs as me. Turns out you also live in Vancouver and that just blew my mind!! 😂 I'm so thankful for your videos because I've been trying to make more Thai food because I am Thai and should know how to make these dishes! Thank you so much!

[@adamthehtkminion6750]

Woo hoo! :) (and hope you enjoyed the afternoon after such a blah morning weather-wise :))

[@fantafantanocoke]

I love adding sliced bamboo shoots to mine. Delicious!

[@veronicakcomt-wong7752]

I'm making this this weekend.

[@no_chefs_here3194]

looks so flavorful! love pork belly!!

[@MLLL1234]

We have something similar in the Hmong community too!! Sweet pork and eggs and stuff!! ❤❤

[@rahraider]

I'm glad you made this video. Definitely a childhood favourite of mine as well, but my mother doesn't have the patience to teach me how to make it. Well, my Mum doesn't have the patience to teach me any Thai recipes actually.

[@sengyengyang]

In Hmong, its called Nqaij Qab Zib, or Sweet Pork. Similar to this as well, but we let it braise in the rich sauce until it clings onto the eggs and meat. So delicious!

[@jasonling1628]

Great dish. You are fun. I like watching your video

[@neutral6944]

It looks delicious.

[@andrewwerner3994]

I recently asked mom to share her recipe for brown egg soup 🤣 she sent me Pailin's. Watching this video I can literally smell it from childhood. I will be making this for my fiancé!

[@nofood1]

One of the best soups in the world, first ate it in Hong Kong, incredible. I believe this is a Chinese recipe but the Thai way has more punch to into it imo.

[@aliosm.v7231]

It's interesting to see how braised pork belly and eggs are in every East Asian cuisine. In Vietnamese, we have the exact same procedure to cook this dish. The only difference is we use fish sauce and sometimes garlic to season the broth. I really love being Asian hahaha

[@kcr7860]

This soup has a pleasant spiciness. My European palate experienced something very fine today. Thai cuisine ❣️. Greetings also to Adam. Thank you for the recipe idea.

[@adamthehtkminion6750]

Hi KC! :)

[@sumitavoghosh6523]

I just loved ur reaction when u put that extra egg in the soup bowl..😬😬😍😍 And btw that's an awesome looking dish.must gonna try. Love from India😃😃🥰

[@jealeeaderhold4225]

I love all your cooking reminds me of my mom cooking she Thai

[@s2klily810]

My favorite dish

[@adrianlindsaylohan]

We have the same in Taiwan! Although our version adds rice wine and fried shallots!

[@teds_23]

My favorite dish!!!

[@peggypeyhuahoo3394]

Thanks. Please share more cooking especially vegetarian food using instant pot. Thanks again

[@ThompsononTour]

One of my favourites too I cook it for the restaurant many times 😎😎😎😎😎

[@ardemisaguirre8088]

Looks delicious 😋😋😋😋😍💐

[@OoMASEoO]

My mom likes to serve it with square rice noodle flakes. So nostalgic.

[@mrmehlol]

Yummy dish that can be served with rice and veggies:)

[@SLYkutie]

Love this. Can you create a video for fried fermented pork belly/ribs? Please and thank you!