August 7, 2019: Taj Hotel’s iconic Thai Pavilion restaurant has opened a pop-up at Taj Exotica Resort & Spa, Maldives, to offer islanders a taste of authentic Thai cuisine. The pop-up is available till August 17, 2019.
Standing tall for the last 25 years, Thai Pavilion was introduced after intensive cuisine and culture study in the 1990s. It was the first Thai restaurant that opened in India and has been the talk of the town since the last two and a half decades.
Chef Sheroy Kermani, along with the team at Taj Exotica Resort & Spa, has worked together to bring in a number of Thai delicacies for an unforgettable dining experience. He shares, “The best of ingredients have been flown directly from Thailand specially for this pop up to ensure that our guests savor some of the finest and authentic royal Thai cuisine at our over water restaurant Deep End.”
Enjoy an excellent pairing of food including appetizers and soups such as Crispy soft-shell crab with pomelo salad, Tempura prawns with tamarind sauce, Raw mango and water chestnut salad to Spinach and sweet corn soup. Seafood and meat lovers will savor Lobster with pepper garlic, Crispy fried fish with tangy sauce and Thai herbs, Classic Thai style roast duck on a bed of spinach, Stir fried pork with chilli garlic & holy basil and Crab meat in roast curry paste. From the Pepper and tamarind fried edamame, Potatoes flavoured with ginger, Peppers & mushroom in light soy to Palm hearts with cashew nuts, vegetarians have a whole array of flavor-packed varieties.
The pop-up will also offer set vegetarian and non-vegetarian menus. The non-vegetarian meal includes Grilled chicken supreme with peanut sauce, Spicy prawns’ soup flavoured with lemon grass and birds eye chillies, Lamb shank with basil and chilli and Thai red curry with an option of prawns or chicken. The vegetarian meal includes Corn cakes flavoured with red curry paste & Thai herbs, Spinach & sweet corn soup, Palm hearts with cashew nuts and Thai green curry with vegetables.
Don’t miss inventive desserts such as Diced water chestnut with coconut cream, Warm Toffee pudding, Lemon grass crème brulee, Macaroon flavored soft centered chocolate dollops, Exotic cut fruit platter and Trio of gourmet ice-creams & sorbets to end the meal on a sweet note.
