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GUYS. I am very, very excited about this one: one of the coolest restaurants in Lisbon is cooking at the coolest bar in Bangkok! One night only! And this very Instagrammer will be helping out in the kitchen! Miss this, and you’re officially on my Shit List. Deets below. ・・・ Taberna da Rua das Flores, Lisbon One night only at WTF ‪February 21, 7pm & 9pm‬ André Magalhães, chef & proprietor of Taberna da Rua das Flores, will prepare a multi-course dinner at WTF highlighting the flavors of Portugal with a selection of iconic dishes. Magalhães’ creative take on traditional Portuguese flavors with exotic touches means queues out the door of his tiny Lisbon restaurant. Taberna da Rua das Flores is a way to experience the classic taverns of Lisbon, with flavors that are part of an old culinary memory, but enlivened with assured modernity. Come experience why the partners and many friends of WTF are obsessed with Lisbon and Portugal — in all cases amplified by our first meal at Taberna da Rua das Flores! 1,600thb (Bank transfer required to secure booking. Contact cw@wtfbangkok.com for details) • – * – • – * – • – * – • – * – • – * – • – * – . . . •The Menu• . -•Tiborna de sardinha de conserva Pinhais // Bruschetta of conserved Pinhais sardines. . -•Tártaro de vieiras com molho Bulhão Pato // Scallop tartare with Bulhão Pato jus. . -•Granada de sames de bacalhau com linguiça e algas // Stewed codfish maw with chickpeas, sausage and sea lettuce. . -•Brás de bacalhau com pó de azeitona // Bacalhau sauteed with onions, egg, straw potato, and black olives. . -•Carne de porco com ameijoas // Marinated pork sauteed with clams. . •Maçã com créme de arroz doce //Poached apple filled with creamed rice pudding. • • • A selection of Portuguese wines will be available by glass and bottle. Beer and cocktails available — drinks not included in set menu.
GUYS, if @lifecw and I were to make this — Shan-style herbal meatballs, sticky rice balls w coconut cream and turmeric, and a Shan salad of long beans, the lot drizzled w shallot oil and crispy shallots — for an upcoming food event in Bangkok, would ya eat it? #thefoodofnorthernthailand
Getting hit up a lot for eats recs lately, so here’s a friendly reminder that I’ve put together a PDF guide to many of the venues featured in #thefoodofnorthernthailand! To download, head to www.austinbushphotography.com, click on the The Food of Northern Thailand link, then on the book cover, and yer good!
“We don’t have fried rice and we don’t have noodles!” was how I was greeted upon entering Chairoj, a decades-old restaurant in #Bangkok. If you can get past the grumpy service and utter lack of interior decoration, the food — Thai and Thai/Western/Hainanese dishes — was solid. I had tongue stew — a standard of this genre — served in a pleasantly tomatoey/gloopy/sweet sauce w canned peas, and a very tasty dish of catfish, deep-fried until crispy (you can eat the bones) and fried w a curry paste and Thai basil.
Esp chuffed to be in a circle that includes @anissahelou! ・・・ Here are the books on the 2019 Art of Eating Prize Shortlist. The winner and the $10,000 prize will be announced on February 26.
Technicolor Thai lunch w @lifecw
Guys, my publisher, @clarksonpotter, has teamed up w some other outfits to offer a pretty cool sweepstakes: a food-centric trip to Thailand that includes, perhaps most importantly, a copy of #thefoodofnorthernthailand! To enter, go here: http://escape.intrepidtravel.com/thailand/?utm_campaign=NA%20thailand%20sweepstakes&utm_medium=inclusion&utm_source=Author&utm_content=social
Honestly pretty heartbroken to hear that, after more than 40 years, Lung Phaithoon and Pa Nee have official stopped making sweets at their home factory in Mae Hong Son. Longtime followers will know how fond I — and others — are of their Shan-style sweets, utterly, profoundly delicious and pretty much unavailable elsewhere in Thailand. But my mind also goes back to chilly mornings spent in their smoky, dark, warm kitchen, watching Lung Phaithoon toast flour, extract coconut cream and stir ingredients, feeling as if I’d gained access to some sort of ancient, secret ritual. At the risk of sounding overly dramatic, the world’s a bit less sweet now.
@pawkhrua and @khunnarata got married last week and it was kinda the greatest convocation of folks, food, fashion and felines ever seen in Thailand. Missing it already.
Commissioning season is approaching, so I decided to pull out all the Thailand-related guidebooks I’ve contributed to @lonelyplanet since joining the company in 1997. The role of print guidebooks and the company itself have seen huge changes in this relatively short time, but I’d like to hope that guidebooks (in whatever form) and the people who write them continue to remain relevant. After all, does anybody want to live in a TripAdvisor-only world? (Incidentally, that book at the top is the very 1997 edition of LP Thailand, written by @joejcummings, that I had on my very first visit to the country. I never would have thought that, a decade later, I’d be writing it!)

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December 22, 2011 in Food

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