Last night my girlfriend and I had dinner at what many would consider Vancouver’s best Thai Restaurant, Maenam. We had grilled Thai sausage and crispy rice salad and green papaya salad for starters with the Pad Thai and southern-style dry curry with grilled sirloin for our mains. Very good.

In Western Living’s September 2011 issue we ran a food feature that included recipes by Maenam head chef, Angus An. Angus was kind enough to come on set and help prep some of the dishes, and lent us props like the gold tureen that held the curry chicken, and the mortar and pestle which he uses at Maenam.

Photography by Clinton Hussey, Styling by Murray Bancroft