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Thai Street – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Thai Street – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoJune 17, 2022July 1, 2022

By chronological standards, Thai cuisine–especially as we know it today–is relatively new to the world culinary stage.  Culinary historians believe Thai cuisine may be as young as 1,400 years, coinciding with a mass migration of people from regions of China.  These settlers dined mostly on seafood, herbs and plants prepared…

Thai Boran – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Thai Boran – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoFebruary 11, 2022February 17, 2022

Many of us with a puerile sense of humor can probably recall giggling like silly school kids the first time we visited a Thai restaurant and perused a menu. We went straight into the gutter the first time we came across such foods as phat prik and fuktong curry. Even…

Siam Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)
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Siam Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)

Gil GardunoJuly 30, 2021December 5, 2021

It’s oft been said that “you taste first with your eyes.”  Certainly sight figures in to the enjoyment of food and sets expectations, but the first sensory receptors to engage in taste is the sense of smell.  If you’ve ever experienced a pleasant aroma wafting toward you as you approach…

Tokyo Bangkok – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Tokyo Bangkok – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoMay 7, 2021May 21, 2021

In 2019, Mastercard published its Global Destination Cities Index which ranked 200 cities around the world with the most international visitors.  Topping the list for the fourth consecutive year was Bangkok, Thailand which boasted of 22-million overnight visitors.  Next on the list with around 19-million international overnight visitors were Paris…

Thai Kitchen – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Thai Kitchen – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoApril 15, 2020April 19, 2020

“There is no good meat that their stupid cooks do not spoil with the sauce they make. They mix with all their stews a certain paste made of rotten prawns…which has such a pungent smell that it nauseates anyone not accustomed to it.” No, that’s not a review published by…

Thai House – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Thai House – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoAugust 5, 2019March 3, 2021

American fashion designer Zac Posen observed that “Chefs have the ego of an actor and fashion designer combined.” In comparison to private cooks, however, chefs are as modest as a cloistered nun.  In a recent survey, PayScale.com, an online salary information company ranked occupations by ego size, asking 383,000 people…

Thai Heritage & Vegan – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Thai Heritage & Vegan – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoApril 12, 2019April 13, 2019

Who among us hasn’t learned at least one thing about Thai culinary heritage from The Big Bang Theory? In a 2011 episode, for example, we learned that according to Thai tradition the last morsel of food, the greng jie, goes to the most important person in the room. At least…

Thai Vegan – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Thai Vegan – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoNovember 2, 2017April 13, 2019

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” – William Shakespeare Contrary to the Bard of Avon’s most famous sonnet, what something is named does matter. It matters at least as much as what it is. Some would say, in…

Fareast Fuzion – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Fareast Fuzion – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoJuly 16, 2017July 8, 2018

A Journal of Consumer Research study published in 2012 revealed that consumers equate eating meat with their concept of masculinity. To the dismay of spinach-lovers like Popeye, respondents indicated meat has a more masculine quality than vegetables. Study participants considered male carnivores to be more masculine than their vegetarian counterparts…

Pad Thai Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Pad Thai Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoJune 16, 2017July 8, 2018

Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain likened his first experience tasting Thai food to “like discovering a color I never knew existed before. A whole new crayon box full of colors.” With so many vibrant colors available, most people don’t settle for one fairly basic color (let’s say black) in a box…

Sakura Sushi Thai & Laos Cuisine – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Sakura Sushi Thai & Laos Cuisine – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoDecember 22, 2016July 9, 2018

Opinions vary as to what the next “hot” cuisine in America will be. As an independent observer of the New Mexico culinary condition, I’m more interested in how long it will take for that heat to make its way to the Land of Enchantment…and whether its sizzle will wow Duke…

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