On 6/27/07, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There is a restaurant in Bangkok whose menus were so encyclopedic with social, cultural and gastronomical trivia about the Thai that they (the menus) was frequently stolen. The owner of the restaurant eventually came up with the solution of having 5 menus - all of them containing the list of dishes, but each one containing a different bit of the social/cultural/gastronomical information. The intent being if someone stole the menu only a fifth of the information would be lost.
And the restaurant, for those of you interested, is the one in the famous Atlanta Hotel [1] at the end of a small soi off of Sukhamvit Road. The Atlanta is an edifice dating back to the Vietnam War that is, these days, very popular with better heeled backpackers. I believe jace has been to the restaurant and can attest to the goodness of the food there. Thaths [1] http://www.theatlantahotel.bizland.com/ -- Homer: He has all the money in the world, but there's one thing he can't buy. Marge: What's that? Homer: (pause) A dinosaur. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
