Is this the second best Thai restaurant in town? Well if you judge such things by the todd munn (deep-fried fish cakes), the sour sausage, grilled beef salad, Laotian-style green papaya salad (som tam), and something called “stir-fried, hot spicy hog,” we’d say yes. We’re also partial to their version of pla gkoong (raw shrimp salad), dressed as it is with heaps of cilantro and lemongrass.
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The Best TV Chef Ever
THE BEST TV CHEF EVER
Keith Floyd Dies at 65
by John Mariani
There never was and now never will be anyone to match Keith Floyd as a raconteur gourmand, the British TV chef and cookbook author who died this week at his home in Montfrin, France. His personable style of irreverent, make-it-up-as-you-go-along showmanship was in complete contrast to the over-produced, contrived glitz of most contemporary food shows in which loud, crass personalities with weird haircuts go around the world looking for the worst things to eat and the oddest people to eat them with.