Cafe Review: An Intimate Pop-Up Explores Thailand's Regional Deep Cuts
Each week since late October, husband-and-wife team Alex and Yotaka Martin have spent Wednesday through Friday cooking just a few meals available for Friday takeout. They aim, Alex says, to “show people another side of the cultures of Thailand and their cuisine.” They’re succeeding. Their pop-up, Lom Wong, provides stunning glimpses of Thailand’s roads less traveled. Lom Wong prepares micro-regional dishes, often specific to an individual person or village, and from people and villages across Thailand. If the Martins can make a paste or egg noodles from scratch, they do. They pound na...