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A very easy and inexpensive dish. Purchase the raw oysters by the bag in the local markets. You can use sherry if you do not have dark soy sauce in the kitchen cupboards. This makes a great appetizer. Ingredients Serves…
Where, do you think, is the single largest wine-producing area in the world? Australia perhaps? How about California? Well actually, you might be surprised to know that it’s the Languedoc…
Beni’s Brunch is back on Saturdays
Friday, 18 November 2011 Issue Vol. XIX No. 46 By Miss Terry Diner
Brunch is one of the best mealtimes in my opinion. In a resort city where people go to bed late and only surface after mid-morning, it makes sense to combine…
“Go to work on an egg” was an advertising slogan many years ago in the UK, and it was a great campaign.
Far be it from me to complain, but I get tired of hearing that old cliché about “serving red wine at room temperature”. It’s nonsense, because the temperature of a…
One of the longest lasting restaurants in Pattaya is the Somsakdi Restaurant (originally just called Somsak’s) which has been at Soi 1 for 25 years - 19 years on the…
This is a very simple and very tasty Thai style appetizer. It will take less than ten minutes to prepare, especially if you buy the pork pre-minced. It is important to mix the ingredients well, so that the formed pork…
Among the enormous variety of white-wine grapes, there are five that stand above the rest. Chardonnay and Riesling are the top dogs, followed (in no particular order) by Chenin Blanc,…
On the day that we had arranged to go to the Amari’s Tavern by the Sea, the traffic was chaotic with the Bangkok refugees all fleeing to the coast. After…
Kao Soi is a Burmese curry. Being a “peasant” meal it was made with chopped chicken, including the bones, but fillet is best. This recipe uses pre-prepared Kao Soi Seasoning Mix (Lobo), available at all major supermarkets. Ingredients Serves 4…
If you normally turn your nose up at boxed wines, I’ve got good news for you. They are getting better. Wine in boxes (or “cask wines”) first found commercial success…
Probably the fastest growing brand in Thailand is The Coffee Club, after opening its sixth outlet, this time on Naklua Road (opposite Soi 18). From some rather simple beginnings in…
In this climate, cold delicacies go down very well. This salmon dish is a cool and most refreshing entree. It is also one of the easiest dishes you will ever make, the hardest part is making the honey dew melon…
Right then. It’s question time again. What is the world’s finest white grape? “Chardonnay!” I hear you howl. Well, maybe you’re right. Or maybe you’re not, because a lot of…
When I say that the Montien Hotel is a Pattaya icon, I mean it. I first stayed at the hotel in 1975 when it was called the Regent of Pattaya,…
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