How To: Make Thai street vendor style kanchanabum

This creative street vendor has invented not only an innovative recipe, but also hand-built the cookware from bicycle wheels and scrap metal. Another example of Thai ingenuity and efficiency, which often expresses itself in the creation of delicious food.

He uses a glove to set just the right amount of rice flour mixture on the hot plate, then a small piece of metal to scrape that off, and into a stack where his wife sells 10 together with a colorful cotton candy they make beforehand. At home you can roll the candy up like a sweet spring roll dessert, we enjoyed it with rice cakes. Follow along with this cooking how-to video to learn how to cook what is more commonly known as kanchanabum. You'll love this street vendor recipe for kanchanabum or rice cakes.