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Satay served with Peanut Sauce).
There were three salads: Larb Gai (Spiced Minced Chicken Salad with Crispy Rice), Pra Goong (Spicy Prawn Salad, Lemon Grass & Mint) and the Classic Thai salad, Sum Tum Thai (Green Papaya Salad) while two soups were served; Tom Yung Goong (Spicy Shrimp Soup) and Tom Kha Gai (Chicken Soup with Coconut Cream).
The main dishes were Pla Rad Prik (Fried Fish with Sweet Thai Chili Sauce), Goong Phad Priew Waan (Prawn with Sweet & Sour Sauce), Gai Phad Med-Mong (Fried Chicken with Cashew Nuts), Moo Thod Ka-Tiam (Pork Fried with Garlic Black Pepper), Gaeng Pa-Naeng Gae (Red Curry Lamb Peanut in Coconut Milk) and the Masaman Nuea (Beef Masaman with Potatoes).
The usual wonderful Thai flavors were there but I noticed that it was a bit toned-down. Perhaps the visiting Thai Chefs Sutee Yamkrathok, Teenasit Nakrua and Wiwat Yong-en perhaps were given instructions to temper the chilies. I shared this observation with the online journalists in the group and they agreed with me. You see, millennials these days are more adventurous in terms of hotness in food.
I had three favorite dishes: Moo Thod Ka-Tiam (Pork), Gaeng Pa-Naeng Gae (Lamb) and Masaman Nuea (Beef). It becomes a problem when you have more than one favorite; I was too stuffed up and only had to eyeball the desserts. I was interested in the Pan Sib (Mung Bean Stuffed in Fried Puff) because it looks like empanada, my comfort food.
My favorites in the festival dinner were among the seven Thai dishes on the list of the World’s 50 Most Delicious Foods (2011, CNN online poll with 35,000 respondents). In that list the Philippine Lechon was… a poor number 49th. Maybe, the respondents had never tasted, excuse me, the Cebuano version of the dish! Everyone may now
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