If you would like to know how to grow a big harvest of galangal watch this video for my five top tips on galangal growing!

Your guide to these distinctly zesty spices. It's easy to get confused — galangal and ginger look almost identical, they both start with a "g", and galangal is even referred to as Thai ginger.

It could be a bad palindrome. Or it could be a spelling mistake. None of the above. Galangal is nothing more than an occasion to fight about, especially for tuppenny gourmets who pretend Thai is a ...

Galangal is a member of the ginger family, a fellow rhizome, or underground stem. It goes by other names – Laos ginger, Siamese ginger, Thai ginger, blue ginger, langkawas — and looks and tastes like ...

A little-known edible shoot from the galangal plant is transforming everyday meals in rural northern villages with its fresh, spicy flavor. In many rural villages across northern Vietnam, galangal ...

(greater galangal). The world community has long recognized the Alpinia galanga L. plant as a raw material for traditional medicinal herbs that can help cure several diseases, such as ulcers ...

Cut the chicken into joints, then chop the joints into small serving pieces. If using dried galangal, soak it in hot water to cover for 30 minutes. Put chicken and galangal into a saucepan. Set aside ...

The sound of stone against stone, reducing shallots, garlic, galangal, lemongrass, and Thai chilies into a paste and releasing the pungent fragrance of shrimp paste is almost a Proustian memory ...