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Dining news
2002/12/01
Everyone knows that Thai food is famous the world over, not
least in Beijing, which has a crop of such restaurants as fine
as can be found anywhere. Whether your dishes are chili-hot or
comparatively bland, harmony is the guiding principle behind
anything that emerges from the kitchen. Good Thai cuisine is
essentially a marriage of centuries-old eastern and western
influences, harmoniously combined into something unique to that
country.
The quality of Thai food is, perhaps more than any other
cuisine, dependant on who cooks it, for whom it is cooked, for
what occasion, and where it is prepared. In short, dishes can
be refined and adjusted to suit all palates, a routine business
for Thai chefs.
This winter, the Royal Thai Embassy in Beijing, in
collaboration with 20 of the city's Thai restaurants, is
staging (until the end of this month) a promotional campaign
billed as the "Thai Food Festival 2002 in Beijing" The festival
is designed to raise further awareness of the cuisine
andprovide more information about its uniqueness and
nutritional value. Culture too.
During the festival, participating restaurants are running
their own promotional programs and offering clients special
discounts, lucky draws, and the likes of bonus coupons. Diners
are also invited to complete a questionnaire from the Thai
Embassy, Fill it in correctly and if you win the top prize, you
and your partner will find yourselves with round-trip
Beijing-Bangkok air tickets.