Plus, Meals by Genet wins the Gold Award.
The choice to name Anajak as ROTY has been clear to me for months. On the one hand, a 41-year-old Thai restaurant that moonlights as a taqueria one night a week and serves mashup omakase dinners sounds like an L.A. parody. But if you dine at the restaurant, nothing comes off as caricature. The cooking, in whichever format you experience it, evinces skill and delight. Noodles heave with smoke from the wok, and the citrus sparkling over prawns or fish is practically bioluminescent.
During a later exchange, when talking about his father’s signature dishes, Justin discussed bu phat pong gari — stir-fried crab curry. “Dad gave me three different recipes. Each time, there was something different than the last. And each time it was a little off, almost like he didn’t want to give me the secret.
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