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Top Secret Restaurant Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones from America’s Favorite Restaurant Chains
Posted by in Uncategorized on March 4, 2010
Top Secret Restaurant Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones from America’s Favorite Restaurant Chains
- ISBN13: 9780452275874
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
With sixty-five illustrations and a host of restaurant facts, this colorful book provides recipes for more than one hundred dishes like those found in famous and well-known chains, such as Applebee’s Quesadillas and T.G.I. Friday’s Nine-Layer Dip. Original.”Amazon.com Review
Long before scientists in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep, Todd Wilbur was hard at work replicating recipes from some of America’s favorite restaurant chains. Armed with Zipl… More >>
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Restaurant Tip: Mom Tri’s Kitchen
Posted by in Uncategorized on February 22, 2010
Earlier this month I decided to write about Mom Tri’s Villa Royale, which is one of the top rated hotels in Phuket, a really nice place to stay. I tend to write hotel recommendations based on their reviews on TripAdvisor or based on talking to customers from our dive shop about their hotels. As a resident of course I don’t stay in the hotels here and being that this is an honest blog, I don’t take any payment or freebies for writing about hotels either.
But I am glad to know some people in the tourism industry here do read this blog! Sylvie, who is PR manage for Mom Tri’s contacted me with a thanks from the management for the blog article.. and would I like to have lunch at Mom Tri’s Kitchen one day? Well, sure! I hate to plead poverty, but a place like that is rather out of my normal budget. Lunch for me is normally going to cost about 60 Baht, I guessed the menu at the Kitchen would be rather pricier…
Mom tris’ Kitchen is part of the Villa Royale resort overlooking Kata Noi beach. I had a quick hotel tour before lunch. Rooms are “Olde Thai” style, there are several pools, a couple of seaview bars and then the restaurant. Tables are placed next to huge windows overlooking the ocean. It was a windy day on Sunday, the waves were roaring in to the beach, quite a spectacular lunchtime view…
Menu is extensive – you can browse it on their website. Actually that shows the dinner menu, not lunch, but you’ll get the idea. All sounds rather good, doesn’t it! The website also has all the prices. I decided not to be TOO greedy, did not order all the most expensive items. Started with a very good salad with Feta cheese and olives… There was also a bread plate with little dips made from olives and sun dried tomatoes…
Naturally there is a big drinks list too, but since this was a working lunch, I skipped on the wine and spirits. Also skipped on the Gazpacho 
Main course for some reason I felt like a pizza rather than anything too fancy. The pizza with smoked salmon was very tasty, though I think if you want pizza you can find better in Phuket for sure. I maybe should have gone for one of the chef’s recommendations but I do like a pizza.
Oh, and there was dessert too! Wasn’t going to ask for it, but dessert menu was presented and the “Giant Profiterole” sounded like something suitable for a fat panda like me. Will need to diet for a few days to lose the 3,000 calories in the profiterole…
Many thanks to Mom Tri’s for the lunch and even though nobody asked for a write up, I would say if you have some money to burn, Mom Tri’s Kitchen is worth a splurge for the food and views. Or I guess for some people the menu seems quite cheap! Next restaurant on this blog will be a bit lower down the food chain
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Restaurant Tip: The Coffee Pot
Posted by in Uncategorized on February 20, 2010
I don’t know about you, but .. as a long term resident here in Thailand I am still learning to appreciate different Thai foods. When I first came here, I think I ate fried rice or green curry about 50% of the time and was a bit scared to try new things especially anything too spicy. These days I love spicier foods and can eat just about any Thai dish. Nevertheless, sometimes my English stomach says “hold on, enough chili, enough rice, enough weird spices… I want proper food”. No offence meant, but now and then I get that need for something from the old country, something simple, meat and veg, potatoes or a big English breakfast. I have touched on this before, and during the high season, the Pineapple Guesthouse near our diveshop does some good English food.
The Coffee Pot has been around for years, owned by an Aussie guy called Tony who can sometimes be seen outside fixing up big bikes. Somehow I had never been in there until a few weeks ago. Many people had told me that the Coffee Pot was good for big breakfasts, for steaks and for coffee of course. The restaurant is on Patak Road (the back road in Kata and Karon) just north of the PTT gasoline station on the same side of the road, just opposite the turning into Thaina road.
Inside there is a lot of space, room for at least 50 people. I have been a few times at lunchtime, but it’s low season and there were never more than a few people seated. Tony says in high season, especially in the evenings, it can be pretty full, as his BBQ is famous throughout the land!
The decor includes photos of John Lennon, James Dean, Motorbikes and Marilyn Monroe. I reckon I will have to go sometime in high season for a meaty dinner. First time I had a late breakfast as advertised on the front of the restaurant – 2 eggs, toast, bacon, tomato, beans and fresh coffee – 120 Baht. I was surprised by the size of the plate and impressed by the use of proper thick crusty bread to make the toast. And the coffee was good too…
So having had this breakfast special, I had to try the Full Monty breakfast – 220 Baht including extras – orange juice (fresh), hash brown, mushrooms and sausage. Surely enough to sink a boat? And a very good cure for that well known Changover. I am not sure if the Full Monty was worth the extra 100 Baht, as the 120 Baht breakfast is very good value and very filling. Breakfasts are served all day. Here’s the Full Monty:
I checked out the BBQ & Grill menu while I was there – click the photo below to enlarge. People tell me that Tony’s steaks are fit for a giant, which would suit me, thank you… I reckon that after the coming vegetarian festival, a big steak at the Coffee Pot might be in order!
Check out that Mixed Grill – 2 eggs, bacon, mushrooms, onions, sausage, pork chop, lamb chop and a steak and chips and salad – 690 Baht. During the vegetarian festival I try very hard to stick to the special “cleansing” diet. I think this mixed grill might be the way to get all dirty again
Nearby hotels:
• Boomerang Village Cottages
• CC Blooms Hotel
