Som Chai, Will Meyrick’s restaurant, is introducing a series of cuisine culture collaborations: “A culinary journey through tribal lands.”
Will Meyrick and Ben McRae are hosting events with other culinary stars from around the region for 2019.
A series of events on promoting the best of Asian food, modern and traditional. As they say: “to embrace the future you must learn from the past.”
Before they had to travel, Hmong tribes, a long time ago, led to the pickling, brining, and fermenting of a vast array of meats and vegetables in the name of preservation. Many of these techniques and ingredients remain essentially unchanged to this day.
This is why Som Chai is embarking on a different journey taking its grassroots of fundamental techniques of cooking with locally sourced, found and foraged ingredients taking you back to nature and traditional ways of cooking, featuring recipes from Will Meyrick travels collaborating chefs from around south East Asian
The renowned Chefs will kick off their first collaboration on 8th December show casing unique hill tribe, of northern Thailand, Vietnam, Yunnan and Laos, it has has been a longtime passion of Will Meyrick to understand how to preserve this culture. Everlasting passion starting in 1998 that he keeps by going there as often as he can.
These stories and recipes are testifying the importance of preserving people and the culture.
Chef’s Table dinners will be recurring events happening in Som Chai, under the influence of Will Meyrick. Menus will range from 5-7 courses that will change based on the ethnic tribes around Asia.