About Blue Elephant

Blue Elephant is the Royal Thai restaurant group's retail arm, selling the pastes, sauces and cooking kits behind its own kitchens, and a discount code helps because these are small-value items bought a dozen at a time to clear a delivery threshold.

What is in the range

The heart of it is the cooking kit: a single boxed set with the paste, the sauce and the dry components for one named dish, plus the method, so you add the protein and vegetables and cook. Phad Thai, Phad See Ew, Khao Soi, boat noodle soup and satay all appear as kits. Around them sit the ingredients on their own — red, green, yellow and massaman curry pastes, ready sauces, coconut cream and milk, rice, noodles and Thai store-cupboard items. Recipes from the group's own chefs are published on the site, which is the useful part: a paste is only as good as what you do next with it.

Getting Thai cooking right at home

Two things separate a good result from a disappointing one. The first is the paste-frying step: curry paste should be cooked in the thick part of the coconut cream until it separates and smells cooked, not stirred into liquid at the end. Skipping that is why a home curry tastes flat. The second is balance — Thai food works by adjusting salt, sour, sweet and heat at the finish with fish sauce, lime and a little palm sugar, so taste before serving and adjust rather than following the quantities blindly. Prepare everything before the pan gets hot; a stir-fry gives you no time to chop.

Allergens and dietary needs

Read the labels rather than assuming. Most Thai curry pastes and many sauces contain shrimp paste or fish sauce, so a dish that looks vegetarian frequently is not; the range does include vegetarian and vegan options, but they are specific products rather than the default. Peanuts appear in satay and in several garnishes, and gluten turns up in soy-based sauces. If you are cooking for someone with an allergy, check the ingredient panel on the actual pack, since recipes change.

Delivery, shelf life and using your code

Free UK delivery applies above a spend threshold, which is why these orders are worth grouping — a single sachet is not worth a postage charge. Ambient pastes and sauces keep well unopened, but most need refrigerating once opened and using within days, so buy for the meals you will actually cook rather than filling a cupboard. Individual lines sell out and reappear, so if something is central to a dish you make often, buy two. Put your code in the basket before payment and check the figure moves.