WIN WITH MY WEEKEND
Delicious Thai buffet dinner for four at Bayside Pantry up for grabs:
THE exotic flavours and aromas of beautiful Thailand take centrestage on The Bayside Pantry’s extensive buffet this month.
Placing strong emphasis on the aromatic components and spices that give Thai cuisine its unmistakable and addictive character, the Bayside Pantry’s culinary team has incorporated a colourful selection of favourite Thai dishes that people around the world over have come to love.
“Thai cuisine is renowned for the interaction between multiple taste sensations. From sour and sweet to salty, bitter and spicy, each dish is an invigorating combination of flavours. “We have included some exciting dishes on the buffet, with mint leaves, lime leaves, garlic, ginger, lemon- grass, curry, cilantro, galangal, chilli, and basil all playing starring roles,” says Megan Capoto, HLM marketing coordinator for Food and Beverage at The Boardwalk.
The soup station includes Thai-style soups, including chicken and sweet potato soup and tom kha gai, a delicious coconut soup, accompanied by fried wontons, vegetable spring rolls, thaawt man khaao phoht (a pork and sweet corn snack) and Thailand condiments.
The salad station is laden with an array of ingredients for diners to design their own Bangkok-styled salad.
There is also a choice of prepared salads, including bamboo shoot yum (bamboo shoot salad), yum sausage (Thai pork sausage salad); traditional Thai chicken salad; yum woon sen (Thai noodle salad), egg plant and brown rice salad, and sweet and sour coleslaw.
Other cold starters, include peek gai tod gleuca (fried chicken wings) and fried fish in spicy Thai sauce.
At the grill station, there are some delicious snacks, like lemon grass and garlic marinated chicken fillets; spicy chilli steaks, and sweet and sour riblets. Diners can once again let their creative juices flow at the stir fry station where there is a seemingly endless selection of ingredients to create their own vibrant stir fry.
At the curry and hot pots stations, guests are greeted with the tempting aromas of gorgeous Thai curries, such as traditional coconut chicken curry; red beef curry, green Thai fish curry; shrimp and glass noodle casserole; lemon thyme and rosemary lamb stew; Thai style seafood pot with basil, and lemon grass beef stew with Thai noodles. The tour of Thai cuisine ends with some indulgent treats from the dessert station.
Some of these include khanom mau (sweet potato pancakes); sumpalang (traditional Thai banana cake); kanovom nsu-dta (sesame seed biscuits); thong yod (ancient Thai dessert); coconut cake with fluffy coconut icing; Thai green cream caramel, and khao niaow ma muang (Thai mango sticky rice pudding).
The Thai Buffet is available throughout May between 6pm and 10pm on Wednesdays. The cost is R149 per person. Booking is essential on (041) 507-7793.