The crabs we get in live and cook each morning, pick the white meat and save the brown for other recipes; the dressing is made from fresh coconut cream, mandarin, lime, palm sugar and kee nu chillies.  Also in the salad:  finely sliced lemongrass, thai shallots, julienne white turmeric, red chilli and fresh makrut lime leaf.

Bright fresh seafood, lots of aromatics, rich coconut cream and a twang of citrus and chilli - it gets the set menus off to a lovely start.

Dorset crab, poached prawn and thai basil salad

som saa

slow grilled native bread pork belly stir fried in an aromatic red paste, plenty of vegetables including mustard greens, chrysanthemum leaf. It's seasoned with fish sauce and plaa raa then finished with a good handful of mixed hearbs such as dill, long leaf coriander and cha-om, 

Dorset crab, poached prawn and thai basil salad

som saa

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