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Bangkok, 14 May 2014 – Bangkok
has been declared the world’s “Foodiest City” and two of its prominent
restaurants have been recognised for their signature dishes, according to
the “Tastiest Fast Feasts” Awards recently conferred by the British
culinary website Chowzter.
The Awards, which aim to uncover the most delicious
fast food served by locally owned establishments with locally sourced
food, are based on nominations by local food experts and bloggers. These
were narrowed to 60 and tested by a team of Chowzter tasters. They cut
across several categories including pizzas, vegetarian, bakery, rice,
sandwiches and more.
Bangkok won in the “Foodiest City on Earth”
category. In Bangkok, the Phat Thai served at the Phat Thai Thip Samai
restaurant won in the “Noodle” category, and the Garlic Fried Chicken at
the Polo Fried Chicken restaurant was nominated in the “Tastiest Bird”
category.
According to a review in the Asian Wall Street Journal,
“In the Foodiest category, Bangkok bared forks with London, Lima,
Singapore and Vancouver. But the city known for its vast array of food on
the go and some of the freshest, flavour-packed offerings – even if it
also wins recognition for the world’s top restaurants – ultimately
triumphed.”
Justin Mellot, one of Chowzter’s founding
employees, was quoted as saying, “We love that much of Bangkok’s food
scene is all about fresh produce, fish, and meat being put together to
make amazing dishes sold in the streets by experienced street food
magicians. These individual vendors are the unsung heroes of the food
world.”
Chowzter’s Bangkok representative Mark Wien,
founder of www.eatingthaifood.com wrote,
“There are few dishes in Thai cuisine more famous than Phat Thai, and one
of the most well-known restaurants for this noodle dish is Phat Thai Thip
Samai. They use high quality ingredients and still cook their Phat Thai
over high flaming charcoal to give it a lovely smoky flavour. The Phat
Thai Haw Kai Kung features soft rice noodles cooked with fat juicy prawns
that are then flash wrapped in a paper thin egg coating.”
TAT Governor Thawatchai Arunyik commented, “This is
another wonderful honour for Thailand and our concept of ‘Thainess.’ Thai
cuisine is famous all over the world, and these awards will give visitors
more reason to come and enjoy our enormous range of delicacies. It is
always nice to be recognised and appreciated, especially the ‘unsung
heroes’ of our tourism industry.”
According to Ministry of Sports and Tourism
figures, visitor spending per capita per day in 2012 totalled 4,392 Baht,
of which 19% (821 Baht) was on Food & Beverage. In 2011, the
expenditure on Food & Beverage was 784 Baht, or 18% of the total.
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1 comment:
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