Best Thai and Indonesian cook books?

[ThankYouVeryMuchGerry]

I've decided that this is the year I master oriental cooking!

Any recommendations for good cookery books for Thai and Indonesian cooking?

TIA

Not a book, but I really recommend Marions Kitchen on YouTube - I believe she lives in Australia, and her mother is Thai and her recipes are great, she does a lot of Thai but also Chinese, Indian, Italian too.

The Ragoon sisters are Burmese/British, they are great and have at least one cook book, I don't own the book but have tried a few recipes with success.

Just as a heads up, a lot of people don't like the descriptor 'Oriental' - I believe due to links to unkind stereotypes, and the fetishisation of the women. East Asian or South East Asian are the accepted terms.

If you already have books covering other countries in the region this may not be for you but good intro book to a lot of cuisines of the wider region is Rick Stein’s far eastern oddysey - very wide ranging including Cambodia, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as well as Vietnam, Thailand etc. His nasi goreng is amazing.

For Sri Lankan food Peter Kuruvita’s Serendipis great - I’ve cooked 10+ recipes from it with great success. Has a number of good and interestimg vegetarian dishes.

Amazing Malaysia is a great book - the satay sauce is a real keeper after trying loads.

Thai Food by David Thompson is a real classic but not well written for substitutions so maybe not for those without access to a decent size asian market.

The Rangoon Sisters book as mentioned above has turned up some great recipes for me. I think they mix very traditional Burmese dishes with more fusion stuff but I’m no expert on the region.

Another one could be Meera Sohda - East, a really excellent book. However, for a couple of reasons it might not be what you are looking for.

1. it covers Asian food as a continent, not just Thailand and Indonesia.
2. it is vegetarian, of course you could substitute meat in, but that will alter the dish and it means some will not be authentic as they are missing items like shrimp paste, which brings me onto...
3. I don't believe this was a book written with intention to authentically represent cuisine and dishes of the Asian countries. Rather an amalgamation of their ingredients, and flavours, and methods to create really tasty dishes.

Following with interest!

The David Thompson Thai Food is recognised as the very best book on Thai food in the West. @1frenchfoodie is right - it's pretty hardcore, but in terms of principles and general information about Thai cooking it's terrific.

I have also found that there's a lot in there that you can cook without access to the floating markets of Bangkok, and it is all delicious.

I completely forgot Fire Islands by Eleanor Ford for Indonesian food. I’ve enjoyed the couple of things I cooked from it and was popular among others in a cookbook club I’m a member of. Sri Owen’s Indonesian Food gets great reviews too but I don’t have it.

Are you extending to Japan? I can heartily recommend Japaneasy by Tim Anderson; I worked out last night I’ve cooked 20 things from it, all good. Anything by Harumi Kurihara will be good too.