From this photo I know we also had dinner at Kin Khao, one of New York's top Thai restaurants, located in SoHo. We go here pretty frequently because the head chef, Ray Wat, used to be Somchai's boss when Somchai first moved to Bangkok. Somchai was at university and also washing dishes for Ray at his Bangkok restaurant. Somchai did such a great job that he was promoted to waiter, but on his first day he spilled a huge tray of food all over an understandably unimpressed family, and he was sent back to the dishes. Ray moved to New York a while ago and runs this very popular restaurant that manages to be authentically Thai but also trendy, and keeping its popularity notwithstanding that it's been an "in" restaurant for a couple decades. We sat with the chef as he plied us with heaps of free food, oversaw a very busy kitchen serving a full restaurant, and managed to drink himself silly.