One Saturday night in May, Barry & Sara celebrated their wedding party at Chedi Restaurant. But instead of the usual bridal waltz the bride and groom chose to literally get down.

A customer commented on the Tom Yum Gung soup that he had just eaten. Her reply was perfect, “only canned straw mushrooms in brine are available in Australia”. And thus the brine spoils the taste of the soup; fresh is always best.

The cover story in The Sydney Morning Herald Good Living “Dining in the Dark and other Restaurant Gripes”; was a pleasure to read. The article by Scott Bolies is a collection of complaints of what most annoys our restaurant critiques when dining out.

This delightful and very photogenic little girl came to dine at Chedi Restaurant with her family. She ate all her food and was forced to give up the spoon only with a bribe of a vanilla sundae.

In Australia we have responded to this gastronomic trend with the likes of Neil Perry, Curtis Stone and Bill Granger. No national cuisine has been spared by the glare of the media and has been chopped, stirred and fried by the likes of Tetsuya Wakuda for Japanese, Kylie Wong for Chinese and Martin Boetz for Thai. Which leads me to ask; where are the Thais?

There are many Thai restaurants in Sydney, who proclaim to serve only Authentic Thai Food. But having lived in Thailand for 10 years, I am puzzled to define what actually authentic Thai food is?

Luckily for suffers of this disease Thai food is the perfect choice when dining out. For further information regarding ceoliac disease and gluten intolerance please visit The Coeliac Society homepage.

Below is a list of the top ten Thai dishes, as put together by the Ministry of Foreigner Affairs; who conducted a survey of a 1,000 Thai restaurants, in different countries to find out the most popular dishes. Only restaurants which employed Thai nationals as chefs and offered authentic Thai food qualified to answer the questionnaire.

I would suggest his book “A Taste of My Life” by Raymond Blanc.

The children of Baan Tharn Namchai were never a threat to Donut King; but they did manage to raise Baht 100,000 which was given in the form of a cheque to a school in Victoria.