Enjoying a healthy balanced menu at Chiva-Som in Hua Hin

Posted by Party Pete on April 22nd, 2008 filed in Hotels and resorts, just visiting

The distance between Hua Hin and Pattaya is about 304 miles. Many holidaymakers drive from Pattaya to much more laid-back Hua Hin. This royal seaside resort town isn’t too difficult to reach by car and the ride from Pattaya should take about five hours.

The internationally acclaimed Chiva-Som health resort in Hua Hin is reputed for its spa cuisine created by the inventive and award-winning chef cook Pasarn Cheewhinshiriwhat. Especially today, with the emphasis on living a healthy life, spa gastronomy could become very popular in the future.

This kind of food is called spa cuisine because spas were the original places where it was served. Since then the cuisine’s concept has been developed and the dishes availability spread throughout the country.

Spa cuisine

Pasarn’s dishes represent Asian twists and are based on healthy balanced fresh ingredients. Some of the chef’s most popular dishes include: jasmine tea-smoked salmon, bean-curd salad and green mango, and stir-fried lamb chops with oyster sauce. A balanced menu should contain plenty of fruits, vegetables, minerals, vitamins, good fat, exact proportioned lean proteins and complex carbohydrate. Spa cuisine must never feature preservatives, chemicals and refined processed ingredients.

Pasarn is skilled in preparing “life food” and raw cuisine and worked in many prestigious hotels all over the world including: Switzerland, Monaco, France, Dubai, Hong Kong and Japan as well as serving menus on a Silver Sea Cruise from Bangkok to Hong Kong.

Vegan and raw food is getting more and more popular, especially now that the people’s concerns about global warming are increasing. About a decade ago foods such as foie gras and caviar were the luxury cuisine’s main ingredients. Today the concept of luxury cuisine is focused more on healthy, organic foods. Guide to Thai food

With a few recipes and little knowledge you might even try to prepare some spa cuisine at home.