Best Thanksgiving in Asia?
If you could spend Thanksgiving anywhere in Asia, where would it be? I'm thinking food-wise, of course, and wondering not just where to get the ultra-traditional US of A meal but if there might also be a country/city/restaurant that does an amazing adaptation with local ingredients/techniques.
—Matt
worldmatt
Oct 28, 2009 05:47AM
I can't point you to any specific restaurant, but I'd look to the Philippines because its history as an American colony has given it a long-standing cultural relationship with the USA.
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Two places in Chiang Mai:
1. Dukes does a buffet dinner with everything/anything you could think of appropriate for a Thanksgiving feast. Owned and run by a guy from Chicago.
2. Bake and Bite -- Perfect turkey dinner with all the fixin's. Not much on atmosphere. Owned and operated by a Thai woman who lived in the US for many years.
Both are traditional American dinners. i don't think I'd want a Thai-inspired one.
I'll be at one of the two this Thanksgiving.
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I lived in the Philippines for years and never encountered a local approach to Thanksgiving.
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