Most Thai restaurants worldwide, and even in Bangkok, dumb down the flavour to cater for the local as well as Western palate, but to the purist that’s to the determent of authenticity.
THE other day I was eating Thai food in a restaurant in a Bangkok suburb with a Malaysian tourist and my guest was surprised that the dishes did not taste like the ones in her favourite Thai restaurant in Kuala Lumpur.
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