Chef Vinod of Indique Heights, the restaurant preparing the Bhutanese food at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival I wrote about last week, pointed out on donrockwell.com a menu substitution I missed despite the clear evidence of my own photographs. Chef Vinod says:
I am glad you liked the dishes - I am going to tone down the heat a little bit tomorrow for the Ema Datsi - I do not know whether you noticed that we changed the chicken dish to jasha tshoem instead of nakey tshoem - nakey means fiddlehead ferns which are out of season and cannot get them.
I hope I didn't get anyone's hopes up for those fiddleheads. Though you probably knew they were out of season . . . .
(P.S. Yes, the photo above is blurry. You do not need new glasses. As far as I know.)
I tried all 3 dishes on Saturday, sharing with friends, and we all liked them all. Nothing was very hot (spicy or temperature, now that I think about it). The mango lassi also got good reviews from my 13-yr. old companion.
Posted by: contessa | July 07, 2008 at 07:12 PM