Flowers in Your Food
Flowers in Your Food
We have a special occasion on Wednesday, and I thought I'd push the boat out by visiting a decent restaurant. It seems that every restaurant I consider, and look up online, the food is decorated with flowers. Personally, although it looks nice, I find the thought of flowers in my food to be quite a turn-off.
I actually thought it was just a photo marketing thing, and flowers weren't actually served. Then I went to an up-market place for breakfast a few weeks back, and my scrambled eggs had flowers growing out of them.
So what is it all about? I've skipped past a few restaurants today because they are advertising flowers in their food. I think this is only something I've encountered in Hua Hin. Is this a global trend, that is only just happening, and I'm too old to appreciate it?
I actually thought it was just a photo marketing thing, and flowers weren't actually served. Then I went to an up-market place for breakfast a few weeks back, and my scrambled eggs had flowers growing out of them.
So what is it all about? I've skipped past a few restaurants today because they are advertising flowers in their food. I think this is only something I've encountered in Hua Hin. Is this a global trend, that is only just happening, and I'm too old to appreciate it?
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Re: Flowers in Your Food
Not just a Hua Hin thing, the UK and other countries also use flowersBig Boy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 1:14 pm We have a special occasion on Wednesday, and I thought I'd push the boat out by visiting a decent restaurant. It seems that every restaurant I consider, and look up online, the food is decorated with flowers. Personally, although it looks nice, I find the thought of flowers in my food to be quite a turn-off.
I actually thought it was just a photo marketing thing, and flowers weren't actually served. Then I went to an up-market place for breakfast a few weeks back, and my scrambled eggs had flowers growing out of them.
So what is it all about? I've skipped past a few restaurants today because they are advertising flowers in their food. I think this is only something I've encountered in Hua Hin. Is this a global trend, that is only just happening, and I'm too old to appreciate it?
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Re: Flowers in Your Food
Its most likely this years fad
like years gone by of ,,,,
nitrogen bubbling away
being incinerated by flames
silly patterns of squeezed sauce stuff over the plate
its just marketing to make you, or some people to go,
ooow, isn't that nice
it soon will pass...
like years gone by of ,,,,
nitrogen bubbling away
being incinerated by flames
silly patterns of squeezed sauce stuff over the plate
its just marketing to make you, or some people to go,
ooow, isn't that nice
it soon will pass...
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Re: Flowers in Your Food
I enjoy cooking so look at some of the mags, shows etc. The idea of edible flowers in the food has been around for many years in restaurants in the states, maybe just hitting Thailand. Personally I've never found any of the flowers having much taste so if not well incorporated in the food I just brush them aside.
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I have no problem with people wanting to experiment with flowers in their food. What I object to is every item on a restaurant's menu containing flowers. Some, yes, but when flowers in food isn't your thing, every item on the menu having them is too much.
Maybe I just didn't notice in the days before Internet, and every item on the menu has a full living photo. A sprig of parsley on my food is enough to put me off
Maybe I just didn't notice in the days before Internet, and every item on the menu has a full living photo. A sprig of parsley on my food is enough to put me off
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Re: Flowers in Your Food
Is this a return of the 'Flower People' from the 60's.
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Re: Flowers in Your Food
Edible flowers have been served in dishes at home and in restaurants for donkeys - the former for health and nutricion, the latter more as an ongoing fad IMO. Can't say I'm a huge fan of the whole lah-de-dah "flower arranging" on food with the sole purpose of beautification and lifting prices in restaurants, but I do enjoy a more subtle approach shall we say....
The LHG enjoys her (long...) walks and foraging in the countryside and as such comes back with plenty of foodstuffs including edible flowers that we'll enjoy mainly in salads - think the likes of wild chives, coriander flowers, wild garlic flowers, Elderflowers etc.... There's an absolute multitude. Yes, they can be decorative, but they also make damn fine eating too!
The LHG enjoys her (long...) walks and foraging in the countryside and as such comes back with plenty of foodstuffs including edible flowers that we'll enjoy mainly in salads - think the likes of wild chives, coriander flowers, wild garlic flowers, Elderflowers etc.... There's an absolute multitude. Yes, they can be decorative, but they also make damn fine eating too!
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Re: Flowers in Your Food
'sauce' ??? you surely mean jusbigston wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 2:46 pm Its most likely this years fad
like years gone by of ,,,,
nitrogen bubbling away
being incinerated by flames
silly patterns of squeezed sauce stuff over the plate
its just marketing to make you, or some people to go,
ooow, isn't that nice
it soon will pass...
Re: Flowers in Your Food
Yes, of course, but in every dish on the menu? I looked at 5 upmarket restaurants online earlier today. Every dish was served with flowers according to the menu photos.
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Yes, that's a fair point..... Perhaps there's a replacement for the "side salad" on the cards?
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Re: Flowers in Your Food
I don't go to fancy restaurants in Europe but the more down to earth places that I do visit definitely don't serve flowers.Is this a global trend, that is only just happening, and I'm too old to appreciate it?
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Well, we chose one of the 5 venues, and went last night. Yes, there were flowers, but not too many, and they were easily moved to one side. Unusually, I chose the duck (I never choose duck), and it was the tastiest duck I'd ever had - well worth a few flowers on the plate.
NB: I don't normally take photos of my food, but I made an exception, just to illustrate the flowers.
NB: I don't normally take photos of my food, but I made an exception, just to illustrate the flowers.
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There are currently two very popular TV shows airing here - Master Chef Thailand and Top Chef Thailand, the mrs is glued to them. It appears that these restaurants are trying to replicate what they've seen on TV, prioritizing food appearance over quantity probably to appeal to the Bangkok hisos (and cut costs ... flowers are cheaper than food!)
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Re: Flowers in Your Food
If you don't mind my asking where did you finally go? as I am looking for a place to celebrate a birthday.Big Boy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 8:59 am Well, we chose one of the 5 venues, and went last night. Yes, there were flowers, but not too many, and they were easily moved to one side. Unusually, I chose the duck (I never choose duck), and it was the tastiest duck I'd ever had - well worth a few flowers on the plate.
NB: I don't normally take photos of my food, but I made an exception, just to illustrate the flowers.
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That duck confit looks delicious.
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We chose S Kens in the end - somewhere I drive past every day, and have been promising myself a visit for a couple of years. Definitely the tastiest duck I've ever tasted.
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