Not too full to dance

BACK BY popular demand – and these fans make a lot of noise – the Wonderfruit festival returns next week, filling the selected locale outside Pattaya with not just music and art but also fantastic food prepared by some of by Bangkok’s most renowned chefs.
From Thursday through Sunday – December 17 to 20 – the Wonder Feast will be sating appetites while musicians fill the ears and artists the eyes. A vast communal-dining area is being set up beneath the shady sails of what’s called the Theatre of Feasts, with sweeping views of the field. Top chefs from top restaurants will be creating culinary treats especially for Wonderfruit.
On the Friday Bo and Dylan from Bo.Lan will prepare an evening banquet costing Bt2,500 per person – a seafood appetiser, classic noodles, northern and southern favourites served with jasmine rice, traditional dessert, seasonal fruit, homemade ice cream and free-flowing wine.
On Saturday Bo and Dylan will be back in the Wonderfruit kitchen, but this time representing their other restaurant, Err, with dishes more rooted in Thai food culture, yet with culinary influences from all over Asia.
For Bt1,000 you can sit in the sunshine and relish a four-course lunch of herbed snacks, northern sausages, street-food favourites from Isaan and the North, the main course of green curry with kanom jeen and an invigorating coffee cocktail.
For dinner that same day, Chef Gaggan – famed for his progressive Indian cuisine – will be in charge of the outdoor banquet, presenting a new, one-time-only concept for Bt2,500 – an authentic nomadic feast from the northwestern Indian frontier. Diners will travel back in time to an era before electric stoves as succulent morsels are cooked over a traditional charcoal pit. Good company and free-flowing wine are part of the fun.
Bill Marinelli, chef and owner of the Oyster Bar in Bangkok, is hosting the Bt1,000 Sunday brunch, a feast of “sustainable seafood”. It starts with oysters flown straight from Seattle in the US, accompanied by a glass of bubbly. Then, with fresh salad from the Wonder farm on the side, hearty seafood paella made from fresh ingredients from the Royal Project will be served.
Also participating in the food party at the festival will be the restaurants Broccoli Revolution, Casa Azul, Forbidden Fruit, Straight Outta Thonglor, Maison Jean Philippe, Peppina, Roots, the Shingo Shack and the Knack Market by Never Ending Summer.

The Wonderfruit Festival from Thursday through Sunday next week takes place at the Fields at the Siam Country Club near Pattaya.
Get the details and reserve passes at http://WonderfruitFestival.com /Feast-List.