Jakarta Hilton offers Thai food adventure<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Hilton Food Festival is back, now offering the
\nfashionable and flavorful Thai Food and Market Festival.<\/p>\n
For those who are familiar with Thai food, do the usual.
\nPrepare your tongue for the sour and spicy bite of tum ab ple,
\nsom tum thai, and pla neung manao (try to memorize the names,
\nit'll make you sound hip) and later soothe your burning mouth
\nwith a wide array of sweet desserts.<\/p>\n
The festival offers 28 dishes from salads, appetizers and main
\ncourses to soups and desserts.<\/p>\n
The special menu includes papaya salad (som tam), main course
\ngreen chicken (kaeng kiao wan gai) and Thai custard in pumpkin
\n(sang ka ya fak thong).<\/p>\n
Be careful with some of the meals which involve lemon in the
\nmaking because they could be very sour to most non-Thai palates,
\nand they could make you wince and want to laugh at the same time.<\/p>\n
The spicy prawn soup (tom yum kung) is already slightly sour
\nand spicy, so refrain from adding the provided lemon sauce until
\nyou gauge your forbearance.<\/p>\n
Take note on this one: The steamed fish with lemon and chili
\ncan be so sour you might want to cry.<\/p>\n
Almost all seven of the salad dishes are also sour, but not
\nthat sour. They are very refreshing and make you happy.<\/p>\n
Curry lovers can enjoy various curry dishes like green curry
\nwith chicken (kaeng khiao wan kai) and red curry with roasted
\nduck (kaeng phat pet yang).<\/p>\n
Do not miss the lemon juice with ginger ale sprinkled with
\nlemon grass. The tang is uncannily delicious.<\/p>\n
The price for the lunch buffet is Rp 137,000++ (US$13.70) for
\none person and for the dinner buffet Rp 150,000++ also for one
\nperson.<\/p>\n
The chef, flown in from Thailand, Therapong Kochpratarn, has
\nexperience in a 5-star hotel, a yacht and as manager of a Thai
\nrestaurant and noodle bar in Surfers Paradise, Australia. He is
\nnow a cooking teacher in Thailand.<\/p>\n
The festival is held in conjunction with the celebration of
\nthe 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations
\nbetween Indonesia and Thailand.<\/p>\n
Thailand Ambassador Her Excellency Atchara Seriputra opened on
\nSept. 7 the festival, which also provides some cultural
\nattractions.<\/p>\n
The food festival in Hilton's Lagoon Cafe opens until Sept.
\n17.<\/p>",
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