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...grander and warmer--as sweet as a child's growing love for a big ugly furry bear--right up to the marvelously satisfying final shot. In this film the real monsters are bad manners (represented by Steve Buscemi's nasty chameleon) and corporate myopia (James Coburn's pompous crab). The good guys are those who realize that laughter is stronger than fear. That's a message worth taking to heart these jittery days...
...galley is a paneled dining hall that seats 16 with a magnificent solid-wood table and, behind the stove, a chef from Hanoi. At lunch, he piles plates high with seafood bought fresh from local sampans, serving up four or five courses of fish, squid, prawns and crab, which we washed down with beer. Squeezing ourselves into the kayaks afterward became steadily more of an effort as the trip progressed...
...Jimmy Carter adopted a no-frills approach designed to save taxpayer money by catering to an average of $4.50 a plate (by 1977 prices). So Canada's Pierre Trudeau got a simple surf and turf selection of Alaskan crab and roast lamb, while British Prime Minister James Callaghan was given the standard British Sunday lunch menu of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding (what, no mushy peas...
...record, then, the Bush-Fox menu is a strongly crossover affair: Maryland crab and chorizo pozole served with summer vegetables, pumpkin seed-crusted bison with poblano whipped potato, fava bean and chanterelle ragout and apple chipotle sauce, salads of gold and red tomatoes and greens, followed by mango and coconut ice cream dome, peaches, raspberries, red chili pepper sauce and tequila sabayon. Hey, who needs Tex-Mex when you're eating chili pepper sauce with the ice cream...
...only serves the quintessential national dish phad Thai (fried noodles, tofu, bean sprouts), which it elevates from ordinary vegetarian staple to high art. The house specialty is a $1.35 version that comes wrapped in an omelette. For an extra $1.35, the deluxe sawng kreung comes with shredded green mango, crab, dried squid, and four large, fresh prawns...