“Most people, including Thais and owners of Thai restaurants in this country, have no idea of Thai cuisine,” said M.L. Sirichalern Svasti, known by his nickname Chef McDang. Among the misconceptions he dispels: The chiles that are inseparable from what ...
is a Thai-born former domestic worker who won a James Beard Award for best chef in the Southwest, the same year as Mr. Ricker. It wasn’t easy. Twenty-four years ago, when Ms. Chutima and her husband, Bill, opened their first restaurant ...
The former vice president of operations at the Elysian Hotel Chicago (now the Waldorf Astoria) is teaming up with executive chef Thai Dang to open Embeya restaurant in the West Loop later this summer. The restaurant is named affectionately after ...
chef who has won a national reputation for his take on Southeast Asian food, made a point of going to Hanoi in 2005 to taste cha ca la Vong. Though his restaurant, Pok Pok, features mostly Thai food, he has been serving the dish since the place ...
It was a business born out of a need to have another offering to their Cafe Laguna restaurant patrons. To date, Lemon Grass is one of Cebu’s best specialty restaurants that offer authentic Vietnamese and Thai cuisine ... right after Chef Raki graduated ...