Stir-Fried Chicken with Green Curry Paste and Basil

This simple dish is an example of the cross-fertilisation between Thai and Chinese kitchens. We ate it at a simple street stall on Ko Samui. We so thoroughly enjoyed it and had such attentive service from some extremely beautiful Thai waitresses that, after we had paid the bill, we presented them with a large tip saying, as you would in England, ‘This is for you’.

One girl became rather excited and said, ‘You want me?’ Slight confusion there, but we managed to dissuade her from pack