My evening here was a series of jaw-dropping moments as I dived into each course of “Le Du’s Tasting Menu”, all of them intriguing and delicious interpretations of familiar Thai dishes and ingredients in contemporary guises.
This pretty plate of carbs featured a source of protein popular with the Thais - ant larvae, and it was prepared in two styles: fried and tossed in a salad for duality in texture and taste. Besides this rather exotic fare, the aromatic fluffy rice also came with snowy white chunks of blue swimmer crab meat and tender young bamboo shoots. In the basin hollowed out of the mound of rice was a pool of aromatic, lipsmackingly delicious Southern Thai style curry. Mixing everything up to eat was the best way to enjoy the immense deliciousness presented here.