| ? About "Chef's Table": There are people from all over the world. They live in the present. They are different in age, but they are all doing what they like. Here is a story about how they became a great chef because of their persistence and love, which made people indulge in life outside of food.
This is a touching story about food, culture, belief, persistence and creation.
Thailand is a hospitable country. No matter what you ask, the answer is "no problem, leave it to me". Thais always meet the needs of customers, so they will weaken their taste in customers.
But not in Bolun (chef Bo and her husband Dylan). Because they want to show customers the real thing, keep the traditional Thai taste, and don't become light just because you don't eat spicy food.
Most people think that Thai food is either curry or fried powder. In fact, it's much more than that. Grand Thai cuisine is one of the brands of human beings, with a wide variety of ingredients, a long history of recipes, exquisite craftsmanship, irrationality and a long history. There are Thai dishes all over the world, and Bolun is the first Thai restaurant that does not cater to tourists' tastes, but cooks authentic dishes.
Every curry sauce is made by yourself, and the spicy curry is made by hand. Old Thai food has long since disappeared and only exists in the minds of some lunatics and their restaurants. In Thai tradition, if someone dies, family members need to write a eulogy containing recipes. Many of Bo's and Dylan's recipes come from this ancient tradition. At the same time, Bo hopes to be as ethical as possible and restaurants should be as sustainable as possible.
In Bangkok, when you ask people simple questions about Thai food, it is difficult for them to answer correctly. They all use industrial processed products, such as canned coconut, packaged curry sauce and processed sugar ... However, in this way, Thailand will be completely industrialized, all curry sauces will be produced by the same company, and traditional Thai dishes will disappear. As a delicacy, where will Thai food go?
Thai food is the first dish in the kitchen, which emphasizes and contains the essence of Thai food and the importance of the cooking process.
In Bangkok, people import the best ingredients from all over the world, but in Bolun, they only use local ingredients in Thailand, and their organic rice comes from Isodon, located in the northeast of Thailand.
Curry sauce can't be mixed with seasonings, boiled into thick soup or squeezed. The correct way is to mash the seasoning together.
Western menus always serve one dish at a time. However, traditional Thai food starts with the staple food and serves seven courses at a time. Judging from the structure of Thai food, there should be at least one kind of curry, soup, salad, stir-fry and flavor seasoning. Through this interweaving, people begin to understand the complexity of Thai food and can eat authentic Thai food in the right way.
Thai restaurants usually cook expensive foreign dishes. If you want to eat Thai food, people usually choose to eat street stalls. If they have enough money to eat in restaurants, they will hire one or two maids to cook Thai food for them at home.
One of the biggest pressures for the development of Thai cuisine is people's expectation of cheap prices. Therefore, cutting food costs has become the only way to reduce the quality of ingredients. Unfortunately, many Thais are using inferior ingredients, and the taste of Thai food is disappearing.
Many people think that Thai food is high in sugar, not just dessert, because there is a balance between tastes. So many appetizers, such as salad dressing, curry and soup, all contain sugar. Sugar in Thailand is very cheap. Because of industrialization, the government subsidizes the sugar industry. Thai food uses traditional coconut sugar. Coconut sugar provides complexity that other sugars do not have. Dishonest chefs will use cheap sugar. The more industrialized producers will add more chemical components in the production process. If you use coconut candy, you must pick it from the tree two or three times a week, because coconut candy does not use any preservatives. By buying these raw materials, we return the rights to the producers and the people who grow our grain.
In today's society, the suppliers of organic products are disappearing. Bolen finally found the organic agricultural products he was willing to sell to them after almost many twists and turns, so he seized the opportunity and developed into a cooperative relationship. These farmers know Thai food like the back of their hands. On the farm, these raw materials are the secret weapon of pure Thai food, and only they can highlight the flavor of Thai raw materials.
Therefore, more and more people choose to go to Bolun Restaurant to experience authentic Thai flavor. The small-scale farmers and fishermen and craftsmen they found were completely organic. The mass production of raw materials will destroy the environment. If your behavior destroys the sustainable production of the farm, traditional dishes will also disappear. Therefore, if Thai traditional food wants to survive, it must begin to care about environmental issues.
All along, "Bolun" wants to tell people the disadvantages of using disposable plastics and the importance of organic agriculture. They will fight to the death for it. They also want to do their best to change the world, fight for our food, fight for Thailand and fight for the whole world!
The food in Bolun Restaurant is a wonderful fusion of culture, custom, chaos, tranquility, flavor, confusion and beauty. They firmly believe in their career and will stick to it, because they have a strong desire to stick to what they believe in.
If we don't make any changes now, we will have no food in the future. We must be kind to the land, the sea and the surrounding environment. We must understand the environment and the influence of people in today's society on the environment, which is not only about cooking and eating, but also about our way of life. Therefore, if each of us can choose a sustainable lifestyle, then our next generation will be blessed.
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