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Khao Kang
How can this Elmhurst steam-table joint outrank neighboring restaurants with food made to order? First, because the chef, Sopon Kosalanan, has cooked dishes exactly as he wants, without hedging for cautious palates. Second, because the deployment of chiles in Thai cooking is no simple matter of hot or not. It’s symphonic. Some dishes smolder, others flare and die down, and still others build slowly, with a ragged pulse, so you don’t realize until too late that you’re engulfed in fire.
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How can this Elmhurst steam-table joint outrank neighboring restaurants with food made to order? First, because the chef, Sopon Kosalanan, has cooked dishes exactly as he wants, without hedging for cautious palates. Second, because the deployment of chiles in Thai cooking is no simple matter of hot or not.
It’s symphonic. Some dishes smolder, others flare and die down, and still others build slowly, with a ragged pulse, so you don’t realize until too late that you’re engulfed in fire.
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