The traditional Thai appetizer Mieng Kham has gone posh at the Sheraton’s royal Thai cuisine restaurant, Thara Thong. “Mieng” meaning many and “kham” meaning one bite, is a simple treat of wild tea leaf (bai cha pluu) wrapped around the usual ingredients of peanut, dried shrimp, cocunut flakes, chilis, ginger, a small cube of lime and a sweet sauce. You can buy mieng on the streets of Bangkok, but now our simple app has gone high-brow. With the creativity and pain-staking detail of Chef Charoensri Vatanayut and her kitchen of mae kruas, (the kitchen is made up entirely of women, reason being that men can’t take the emphasis on detail and patience that goes into the presentation of Thara Thong’s cuisines, there was a man there once but he left) the mieng is no longer simple. I tried the mieng ruam mitr (B240), which is an assortment of all their mieng varieties, including the mieng tuna, mieng with grilled pork, veggie mieng, mieng kuen chai, etc. It took a while for the mieng ruam mitr to come out, because such detail had to go into the making of them. Who knew something so simple, is actually a pallet for creativity, and the patience of women chefs. Try the posh mieng all this month of June.