If you've ever shopped for ginger root, chances are you may have almost inadvertently grabbed a similar-looking spice called galangal root. Native to Southeast Asia, galangal root looks so similar in ...

If you have tasted Thai — tom yum soup, which is a hot and sour soup, green curry or red curry, khao soi gai, which is a northern Thai noodle soup, or a range of stir fries, the aroma of galangal is ...

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 ...