£8.45
A fiery and intensely flavourful dry curry from Southern Thailand. Made with hand-chopped chicken or pork, this dish is packed with bold spices and seared in a rich, aromatic curry paste — no coconut milk, just pure heat and depth.
Spice Level:
🌶 Hot – bold, dry, and spicy with an intense southern Thai kick. Let us know if you’d like it toned down!
Serving Suggestion:
🍚 Best served with jasmine rice to balance the heat and soak up all the flavour.
A fiery and intensely flavourful dry curry from Southern Thailand. Made with hand-chopped chicken or pork, this dish is packed with bold spices and seared in a rich, aromatic curry paste — no coconut milk, just pure heat and depth.
Spice Level:
🌶 Hot – bold, dry, and spicy with an intense southern Thai kick. Let us know if you’d like it toned down!
Serving Suggestion:
🍚 Best served with jasmine rice to balance the heat and soak up all the flavour.
Thai Name: Khua Kling (คั่วกลิ้ง)
Origins: Khua Kling is one of the most revered and uncompromising dishes in the entire canon of Thai cuisine — a dry curry from the deep south of Thailand that strips away everything inessential and delivers pure, concentrated flavour with nowhere to hide. Unlike the coconut milk curries that most people associate with Thai food, Khua Kling contains no liquid base at all — the hand-chopped meat is seared directly in the curry paste over high heat, coating every piece in a fierce, aromatic crust of dried chillies, lemongrass, galangal and kaffir lime. The result is a dish of extraordinary intensity that is simultaneously one of the oldest and most sophisticated expressions of southern Thai cooking. In the Nakhon Si Thammarat and Trang provinces of Southern Thailand where it originates, Khua Kling is not considered a dish for the faint-hearted — it is a dish for people who genuinely love the heat and complexity that southern Thai cuisine can deliver at its most unrestrained.
Our Version: Sireeya sources her Khua Kling curry paste directly from Koh Lanta in Southern Thailand — the heartland of the fiery, uncompromising southern Thai flavour tradition that makes this dish what it is. That authentic paste is used to sear hand-chopped chicken or pork to order, coating every piece in layer upon layer of bold spice and aromatic depth. This is Khua Kling made the southern Thai way — fierce, fragrant and completely authentic. If you have never tried a Thai dry curry before, this is the one that will change how you think about Thai food entirely.
What You Get: A generous portion of intensely flavourful southern Thai dry curry made with hand-chopped chicken or pork, seared in authentic Koh Lanta curry paste with no coconut milk. Pure heat, pure depth, pure southern Thailand.
Khua Kling is the most intensely flavoured dish on the menu — here’s what our customers love ordering alongside it to balance, complement and complete the experience.
🍚 Thai Sticky Rice
Across Southern Thailand, Khua Kling is almost always eaten with sticky rice — and once you understand why, you will never order it any other way. The soft, glutinous rice has no competing flavour of its own, which makes it the perfect vehicle for the fierce, aromatic dry curry paste coating the meat. You roll the rice between your fingers, press it against the curry and eat them together — the rice absorbing the heat and the spice and carrying it in a way that no other accompaniment can match. Essential, authentic and irreplaceable.
🌿 Mixed Vegetables
Sometimes the most effective pairing is the most understated one. Sireeya’s stir-fried seasonal mixed vegetables with garlic and oyster sauce provide a clean, straightforward counterbalance to the complexity and heat of Khua Kling — their simple savouriness grounding the meal and giving the palate somewhere to rest between the fierce bursts of southern Thai spice. A quietly essential addition that makes the Khua Kling taste even more extraordinary by comparison.
🥗 Som Tam Thai
The most exciting contrast pairing on this list. Som Tam Thai — shredded green papaya with fresh chilli, lime, roasted peanuts and tomatoes — delivers a sharp, tangy, cooling freshness that cuts through the fierce dry heat of Khua Kling like nothing else on the menu. In Southern and Northeastern Thailand, a fiery main dish alongside a bright, acidic salad is one of the fundamental principles of Thai meal composition — and this pairing embodies that principle perfectly. Between every intense mouthful of Khua Kling, Som Tam refreshes and resets the palate completely.
🥥 Coconut Soup — Tom Kha
A pairing of inspired contrast. Tom Kha’s gentle, creamy coconut broth with its soft lemongrass and galangal warmth is perhaps the most effective possible counterpoint to the dry, fierce intensity of Khua Kling. Where the curry is bold and unrelenting, the soup is soothing and enveloping — and the combination of the two creates a meal with a dynamic range of flavour and temperature that is genuinely memorable. A pairing that shows the full breadth of what Thai cuisine can achieve in a single order.
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We chose spring rolls with sweet chilli sauce to start. Then beef in oyster sauce with fried rice which was cooked to our liking, very generous portions We will definitely be ordering again.
My partner has travelled to Thailand and she never stops harping on how lovely the food is over there, she has not since returning found the same taste and quality until now we will definitely be regulars
First time ordering from here after a friend recommended it and wow, I was impressed. The food tasted amazing — you can really taste the herbs and spices, the Thai spicy option is spot on. Delivery was great too, the driver was friendly and chatty and explained everything. Really good service. Will definitely order again!
The best Thai food we have had, great spicing and fresh flavours. Good portions and pricing for an outstanding meal delivered to your home. Will be ordering again.
From order to delivery excellent and the food itself is so fresh with amazing flavours highly recommended
Always pleased with my food order. Dish are all freshly cooked, the ingredients is very authentic like you are really in Thailand, thank you so much! You are amazing!
I can not rave about this food enough, i have recommended it to so many friends and family who have loved it. My go to it masaman curry and pad kra pao, the wife absolutely loves the papaya salad, she even made us waterfall pork which wasn’t on the menu 10/10
Spring roll with sweet chilli dip was delicious. Green Thai curry freshly cooked and a very generous portion. Will definitely be ordering again.
I definitely recommend it ,every meal tastes amazing, love it xxx
A real taste of authentic Thai food! If you want it like your in Thailand than these guys are your new heroes! Rob is full of life and always brings your food hot and fresh and Sireeya is a fabulous cook! Thank you guys for bringing Thailand to our door. 🇹🇭🖤
