Australians now have a chance to recreate the experience of cooking Asian cuisine at home using Five Tastes newly launched Asian-style brand.

Source: Five Tastes

The brand has meal kits, cooking sauces and pastes, which when used fresh off the pack helps Aussies cook Thai meals such as the famous Pad Thai, Green Curry, Red Curry and Laksa just like they were eating at an authentic Thai eatery or feasting on local cuisine at a wedding banquet.

Tara Lordsmith, general manager for marketing at Five Tastes, shared that based on their research, people are keen on cooking Asian cuisine at home but often the Asian aisle in supermarkets is confusing due to so many unfamiliar brands. She added that the top 30 per cent of the category are held by 10 different brands.

This led the company, one of the largest privately owned companies in the world and ranked 59th in Forbes magazine's list of Private Companies in 2004, to take the leadership by manufacturing a distinctive, modern new brand - Five Tastes.

As the name implies, the brand tries to balance sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savoury tastes, which are the hallmarks of many Asian dishes that could be difficult to recreate on your own using common kitchen ingredient.

David White, Five Tastes executive chief, said achieving balance of flavours requires precision, generations of knowledge, extensive preparation and exotic ingredients, now available to all by simply opening a pack of Five Tastes.

In three challenges in Thailand sponsored by Five Tastes, a newly married foreign couple from Queensland, a pair of male school teachers from Melbourne and two Perth mums were made to cook the Pad Thai for shoppers in a Bangkok night market, Green Curry for traditional wedding guests in Chiang Mai and Red Curry frogs for hungry rice farmers in northern Thailand, respectively.

Needless to say the three pairs impressed the locals with their version of popular Thai meals using authentic ingredients and Five Tastes' cooking pastes.