Bass with Garlic Sauce

A hotel in Bangkok runs a Thai cookery course for visitors and locals alike. It doesn’t go to great lengths but it provides a useful insight into Thai cooking. The presentation was made by a rather zappy young man who looked like a hair salon proprietor, behaved like a DJ and spoke with a dead cool American accent.

I cooked him this dish, which my chum Chom had taught me, by way of a ‘thank you for letting us mess up your lecture this morning’.