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9 January 2016

Apinara, Groove, sukhumvit, Bangkok, Thailand

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Apinara showed the new horizon of Thai foods.

The nahm showed the diversity and symphony of herbs and spices on the dishes. Modern restaurants also show the beautiful marriage of herbs and ingredients.

This Modern Thai restaurant was located in one of the most luxury shopping mall, named Groove, in Bangkok. The interior was coordinated as the Modern Thai, with polished subdued colour and Thai traditional furniture. The staff are able to speak frequent English with Thai hospitality. Having the dinning in Groove is the trend among young executive in Thailand.

The dishes are Thai food, of course. Some ingredients, including foie gras or Wagu beef, were come from the Western style food. The seasoning and method of the foods were original Thai, using the traditional Thai herbs and spices and cooking with various technique. The recommendation from the restaurant were fusion dishes with traditional Thai and modern Western.

I had the rice vermicelli and red curry and braised pork neck meat. The rice vermicelli was cold and was dipped into the red curry sauce. Several fresh herbs were served with curry soup. I had enjoyed the flavoured curry soup and vermicelli noodles.

The pork neck meat was very lovely. Juicy meat liquid were coming from the nicely braised meat. The sauce accompanied on the dish was not only hot and added with several herbs.

On the bottom, I would like to advice you about the dryday in Thailand and dry-hour in Thailand. My visiting Apinara was around 14:00 when is under dry-hour (not serve any alcohol at the restaurants or shops). During 11:00-14:00 and 17:00-24:00, the people are officially able to have alcohol. The drydays are Buddhism Holidays in Thailand.


9 December 2015

the course, Nahm, Sathorn, Bangkok, Thailand

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The Nahm showed the elegant fusion of modern international style from Europe and diversity of Traditional Thai. The course was nicely combined and marriaged to show the elegance through Thai. Although the story on the course may be different depend on the customers, the staff who may be gay will show the elegant spectacles of the Thai food on the dishes in one night.
 
The food was very spicy and hot but showed the difference in these words. We felt we should express and describe the “hot” tastes or flavours with different words, as sparkling hotness, bubbling spicy, harshness chili or hotness like sudden wind with herbal green leaf flavour etc. All dishes were contained huge spices of spice. The chef and the staffs will show the beautiful and exotic image on the dishes.
Tom yam goon "style" soup. The chili soup was a little different from the Thai food. The soup stock was cooked on the European style.
catfish curry. creamy curry sauce were like as the spicy soup in the French menu.

Wagu beef. The braised beef including meat juice show the nice marriage with the herbal vegitables and spices.

 

Soft shell crab

Salad. The dressing was

the desert. sweet egg noodle.

refreshment sugar with spice


 
The set menu was the a la carte menu. It cost us 2300TBH/one person. We chose dishes as the courses.

 

Canape

ปูซ่อนกลิ่น blue swimmer crabs, peanuts and pickled garlic on rice cakes

ขนมฝอย egg nets with prawns, wild almonds and kaffir lime

หมูซ่าใส่กุ้งมังกร pork and lobster with shredded ginger and thai citron

ลาบไก่ต๊อก chiang mai larp of guinea fowl  

Soup

เห็ดโคนต้มน้าปลากับกุ้ง clear soup of termite mushrooms with prawn

 

แกงจ้าวเต่า catfish curry with tamarind and lemon basil

แกงกะทิปูม้า coconut and turmeric curry of blue swimmer crab with calamansi lime

เนื้อผัด stir-fried wagyu beef with charred onions, oyster sauce and thai basil

ปูนิ่มผัดเผ็ด soft shell crab stir-fried with chillies, holy basil and green peppercorns

8 December 2015

atmosphere of restaurant, Modern Thai, Nahm, Sathorn, Bangkok, Thailand

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Symphony of spices and essence of ingredients on the dish
 
Thai food is one of the most famous food categories in the world. The general imagination of Thai food is spicy, hot, exotic or red colour etc. These adjectives will show just one face of the Thai foods. The Thai food also has huge diversity as Japanese food. The diversity has several axes as the class, the area in country, situation (restaurant to food stand). The character of the Thai food is the combination of spices, Umami from seafood and texture. As Umami and Texture were also seen in Japanese food, Japanese people love into powerful taste (hot and spicy) and presentation (colourful and large portion).
 
The entrance of Nahm
 
The Nahm is very famous as the Michelin stared restaurant. This restaurant is also Thai food restaurant. If you will plan to visit this restaurant with some conservative European image as the other Michelin stared restaurant in European countries, some part of the courses will not be able to satisfy you without your experience of some spices or Thai culture.
 
In the restaurant, exotic flowers were decollated on the table or walls. The colours of the flowers were reflected white light. The interior was very modern as the international food restaurant. The meter de tail will escort to the tables as the French restaurants. The staffs spoke nicely frequent English and explain the menu like poem. No one will be able to imagine the tastes, courses and flavour from description in English. We need huge communication between the customers and staffs. 
 
The dishes which decorated foods on were very traditional tastes from Thailand. Some was similar to the Skhothai era celadon, some was painted with the metal, and the other was like born China. The courses had served as the families or friends in Thailand. The chef, Mr. David will show what his Thai food is.
five Canape from kitchen
These canapes will be the signature dishes expressing the chef's Thai food world. The marriages of the tastes, flavours and textures is the first time for me.
 
On the first canape, our chef will bring us to his Thai food world.
The sweetness of the pinapple and mixed braised pork, shrimp and ginger were married as a Thai snack in our mouth. 
 


 blue swimmer crab over rice crackers

pork lobster

marriage of sour and garlic

 

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