Thai-Danish Couple Create Great Success In Copenhagen

By Bjarne Wildau
Henrik Yde and his partner Leertchai Treetawatchaivong have with in a few years created a tiny Thai food empire in Copenhagen. The two owners both gets involved in the main challenges that’s as a habit just occur in a professional Thai cuisine kitchens in their two restaurants.
The first restaurant the couple opened was named Kiin Kiin. In record time Leertchai and Henrik turned it into a very popular eatery, which focused on Thai cuisine.
Surely many people have done before, and after them, but Kiin Kiin is the first Thai restaurant in Denmark attracted one Michilen star to Kiin Kiin in Copenhagen.
But if you can do something once, you can probably also do it twice. It seems to be the idea behind the couples opening of their second restaurant, Ricemarket on the square named Kultorvet.
The ambition is not to create a potential Michelin candidate, rather, a Thai version of the times dominating bistro trend. A relaxed and relatively cheap restaurant with a rather comprehensive menu.
Bookings can only be done if it’s for at least eight people, so most people will be forced to appear and hope for a quick replacement of the guests at the small tables. The menu is quite manageable - eight starters, five main courses, three desserts - and then a five-course fixed menu for $ 350, says Mogens Rasmussen, who on behalf of the Danish newspaper Berlingske has visited Ricemarket.
Mogens Rasmussen did choose precisely the above-mentioned five-course dinner, but he brought a guest who selected from a la carte menu.
The guest preferred steamed dim sum, stuffed with pork, coriander and ginger- from a la carte card.
Ricemarket has in its first month of existence been criticized for long delays, but that Saturday night where Berlingske carried out his unannounced visit, it seemed as if they had come to grips with the logistics.
Berlingske´s reviewer describes in details the food and accompanying wines. You have to click the link, if you want to read those details. More important: Mogens Rasmussen's biggest problem with the number of stars to hand over to Ricemarket, was whether he would give the new Thai Restaurant four or five stars out of six possible.
A less successful Pad Thai and the fact that the staff simply do not yet have the understanding or the ability to follow the noble vine card withdrew, however, the score down to "only" four stars.
Mogens Rasmussen’s last lines go like this:
"But Ricemarket has undeniably worked it self into in the top of Copenhagen’s Thai cuisine hierarchy and Henrik Yde and Leertchai Treetawatchaivong has once again cheated the sceptics."



Created 2008-06-22
Original news source: http://www.berlin...706050005/