Butter Is Better Restaurant Closing For Renovations

[Sansai Sam]

•New York pizza

•Hoppin' John

•New Mexico green chile

•Homemade buttermilk biscuits

•Tasso

•Whole Maine lobster

•Calabash-style shrimp and hushpuppies

•Kansas City barbecue ribs

•Hot glazed Krispy Kreme

•San Diego fish tacos

•Cheese curds

•Key lime pie

•Philly cheese steak

•Memphis pork barbecue sandwich

•Lowcountry boil

•Huckleberry pie

•New England clam chowder

•Boiled peanuts

•Buffalo burger

•Eggs Benedict

•Pastrami on rye

•Corned beef and cabbage

•Pancakes with maple syrup

•Everything bagel with cream cheese and tomato

•Thin Mints (preferably frozen)

•Frito pie

•Potato knish with mustard

•Silver Queen corn on the cob

•Soft pretzel from a street cart

•Fresh-picked blueberries

•Sourwood honey

•State fair funnel cake

•Chesapeake crab cakes

•Candied yams

•Oyster dressing

•Snow cone or snowball

•Wild Alaskan salmon

•Sautéed morels

•Persimmon pudding

•General Tso's Chicken

•Frozen custard

•Italian sausage with peppers and onions on a hoagie bun

•Chili dog

•Buffalo wings with blue cheese

•Spam musubi

•Saltwater taffy

•Fluffernutter sandwich on Wonder Bread

•Black and white cookie

•Frybread

•BLT with thick-cut applewood bacon

•Baked beans

•Pumpkin pie

•Collards with vinegar and Tabasco

•Tex-Mex fajitas with skirt steak and sautéed peppers

•Fried green tomatoes

•Succotash

•Shrimp and grits

•Hot water cornbread

•Barbecue chicken pizza with red onions

•Chicken fried steak

•Carnitas burrito

•Apple butter

•Geoduck

•Soft-serve ice cream cone dipped in chocolate shell (especially Dairy Queen)

•Pecan pie

•Catfish supper at a church or fire station

•Oysters Rockefeller

•Homemade cranberry sauce •Pimiento cheese

•MoonPie washed down with R.C. Cola

•Pickled watermelon rind

•Cracker Jacks at the ball game

•Smithfield ham

•Meatloaf and mashed potato blue plate special at diner

•Chicken and waffles

•Po'Boy

•Green bean casserole with French's fried onions

•Stuffed sopaipillas

•Turducken

•Shad roe on toast

•Sweet potato casserole with or without marshmallows

•Cioppino

•New York cheesecake

•Pan-fried river trout

•Jambalaya

•North Carolina pig pickin'

•California rolls

•Burgoo

•Penuche fudge

•Fried peanut butter and banana sandwich (the Elvis)

•Scrapple or livermush

•Elk medallions in red wine reduction

•Muscadine grapes

•Cheeseburger at backyard barbecue

•Open-face turkey sandwich

•Chicago deep dish pizza

•Cobb salad

•Peach pie a la mode

•Macaroni and cheese with Tillamook sharp cheddar

•Root beer float

[Ulysses G.]

Sanai, can you define US food? Cos I have a very hard time with that definition. The only one I have is BURGER, HOT DOGS.

I think that you have been replied to. Don't forget collard greens and hog jowls, grits and bacon, lettuce, tomato and avocado sandwiches.

[millwall_fan]

you must have had a boring afternoon to come up wiht that lot Sansai Sam!! some interesting menu ideas there though! even if you take out the 'padding' - everyone knows Scottish Salmon is every bit as good as Alaskan! you're not claiming Baked Beans without a fight! and you can hardly claim pizza as you own.<BR><BR>As for duck shit - or turducken as you describe it, well, you can keep that!<BR><BR>A fun list though! Any Brits out there with time on your hands during the Songkran lockdown care to come up with our equivelent? <BR><BR><EM>OK, I've looked up Turducken and it sounds tasty - a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey - not specifically American though is it?<BR></EM>

Edited April 11, 2011 by millwall_fan

[Sansai Sam]

The history of the humble - and yummy - baked beanBy SEAN POULTER

Last updated at 19:10 03 April 2007

Baked beans are believed to be based on a Native American dish in which beans were cooked with fat and maple syrup.

European settlers are thought to have adapted the recipe using pork and molasses.

There is another theory that the recipe can be traced to the classic French bean stew cassoulet.

Henry Heinz launched his baked beans in the U.S. in 1895 and brought them to the UK nine years later.

Beans became a staple of the British diet. Originally the product contained a small piece of pork. But Second World War rationing put paid to that.

The Beanz Meanz Heinz slogan dates from the mid-1960s. In 2006, Heinz headed off a threat by Branston to hijack it by reintroducing it to its marketing.

In the mid-1990s, a price war broke out, with some supermarkets selling their own brand beans for as little as 3p a can.

One enterprising independent grocer even gave consumers 5p every time they "bought" a can.

[Sansai Sam]

Only mentioned New York style pizza but thanks for reminding me....I forgot about Chicago....

In 1943, Chicago bar and grill owner Ike Sewell created what came to be known as Chicago-style deep dish pizza. This pizza features a deep pile of toppings surrounded by a flaky crust that sits an inch or more above the plate. Deep dish pizzas often reverse the order of ingredients, opting to place the sauce on last. Deep dish pizzas achieved popularity during the war years as an alternative to casseroles. They were easy to make, filling and did not cost many ration coupons.

[getgoin]

When I lived in the states I think I ate Asian food more than any other cuisine. Lately for me it has been Indian food.

Living in Chiang Mai I would love to have some really great Thai food. Unfortunately, the Thai food in Chaing Mai has actually regressed in the last 20 years. Most of the really great Thai food is found at little stalls and many of the small restaurants that abound around the city. Thai food is not and has not experienced a renasaince in Chiang Mai and you could probably say that about Bkk as well.

Recently I went to the Anusarn Market and ate at Lena's. The food was not good.

For the "I love Thai" and "I love this garbage food that they are passing off for 30 Baht" I say, if you can eat it then it is OK.

Value is not a reflection of price.

To get back on the subject, are you remodeling the menu? Maybe butter is not always better?

Dave

[butterisbetter]

•Potato knish with mustard

Potato Knish with mustard?

What are you? Some kind of anti-semite?

Next you'll be suggesting mixing cheese and corned beef and putting it on rye bread.

[PostmanPat]

When I lived in the states I think I ate Asian food more than any other cuisine. Lately for me it has been Indian food.

Living in Chiang Mai I would love to have some really great Thai food. Unfortunately, the Thai food in Chaing Mai has actually regressed in the last 20 years. Most of the really great Thai food is found at little stalls and many of the small restaurants that abound around the city. Thai food is not and has not experienced a renasaince in Chiang Mai and you could probably say that about Bkk as well.

Recently I went to the Anusarn Market and ate at Lena's. The food was not good.

For the "I love Thai" and "I love this garbage food that they are passing off for 30 Baht" I say, if you can eat it then it is OK.

Value is not a reflection of price.

To get back on the subject, are you remodeling the menu? Maybe butter is not always better?

Dave

Interesting. Someone else dares to say what I think. Might sound silly to some, but frankly, Thai food in Chiang Mai is rarely upto the quality of Thai food I get in London, Birmingham and Nottingham, and also recently in Brisbane and Sydney on a holiday to Aus. Cheaper here, yes, admittedly, but all too often, even in the so called better Thai restaurants, presentation and quality often sadly deficient compared to what I get abroad.

Is it down to complacency, sloppiness, or is there an element of it aint actually as good as the reputation its gained, and is the reputation based partly or wholly on Thai food having been adapted and, yes, improved outside Thailand.

As of now, there are as few as a handful of Thai restaurants in Chiang Mai where you can guarantee great quality. Loads of "cheap and cheerful" joints, yes, but I m talking about real quality.

[bristolgeoff]

when i stay in chiang mai i have rice with chicken or pork everyday,veg included.sometimes i have farang food just to have a change in food.nothing wrong with that.it is not about culture just change of food,look at the thais who eat burger king mac donalds everyday.

[mic6ard]

•New York pizza

•Hoppin' John

•New Mexico green chile

•Homemade buttermilk biscuits

•Tasso

•Whole Maine lobster

•Calabash-style shrimp and hushpuppies

•Kansas City barbecue ribs

•Hot glazed Krispy Kreme

•San Diego fish tacos

•Cheese curds

•Key lime pie

•Philly cheese steak

•Memphis pork barbecue sandwich

•Lowcountry boil

•Huckleberry pie

•New England clam chowder

•Boiled peanuts

•Buffalo burger

•Eggs Benedict

•Pastrami on rye

•Corned beef and cabbage

•Pancakes with maple syrup

•Everything bagel with cream cheese and tomato

•Thin Mints (preferably frozen)

•Frito pie

•Potato knish with mustard

•Silver Queen corn on the cob

•Soft pretzel from a street cart

•Fresh-picked blueberries

•Sourwood honey

•State fair funnel cake

•Chesapeake crab cakes

•Candied yams

•Oyster dressing

•Snow cone or snowball

•Wild Alaskan salmon

•Sautéed morels

•Persimmon pudding

•General Tso's Chicken

•Frozen custard

•Italian sausage with peppers and onions on a hoagie bun

•Chili dog

•Buffalo wings with blue cheese

•Spam musubi

•Saltwater taffy

•Fluffernutter sandwich on Wonder Bread

•Black and white cookie

•Frybread

•BLT with thick-cut applewood bacon

•Baked beans

•Pumpkin pie

•Collards with vinegar and Tabasco

•Tex-Mex fajitas with skirt steak and sautéed peppers

•Fried green tomatoes

•Succotash

•Shrimp and grits

•Hot water cornbread

•Barbecue chicken pizza with red onions

•Chicken fried steak

•Carnitas burrito

•Apple butter

•Geoduck

•Soft-serve ice cream cone dipped in chocolate shell (especially Dairy Queen)

•Pecan pie

•Catfish supper at a church or fire station

•Oysters Rockefeller

•Homemade cranberry sauce •Pimiento cheese

•MoonPie washed down with R.C. Cola

•Pickled watermelon rind

•Cracker Jacks at the ball game

•Smithfield ham

•Meatloaf and mashed potato blue plate special at diner

•Chicken and waffles

•Po'Boy

•Green bean casserole with French's fried onions

•Stuffed sopaipillas

•Turducken

•Shad roe on toast

•Sweet potato casserole with or without marshmallows

•Cioppino

•New York cheesecake

•Pan-fried river trout

•Jambalaya

•North Carolina pig pickin'

•California rolls

•Burgoo

•Penuche fudge

•Fried peanut butter and banana sandwich (the Elvis)

•Scrapple or livermush

•Elk medallions in red wine reduction

•Muscadine grapes

•Cheeseburger at backyard barbecue

•Open-face turkey sandwich

•Chicago deep dish pizza

•Cobb salad

•Peach pie a la mode

•Macaroni and cheese with Tillamook sharp cheddar

•Root beer float

OK you got me dude. Not complaining. I dind't even think about half the stuff on that list.

[prism]

Sanai, can you define US food? Cos I have a very hard time with that definition. The only one I have is BURGER, HOT DOGS.

I think that you have been replied to. Don't forget collard greens and hog jowls, grits and bacon, lettuce, tomato and avocado sandwiches.

...and Gumbo, one of my favorites.

[CMSteve]

Just because it's already been mentioned....

Any idea if there is any Gumbo and/or General Tso's in Chiang Mai???

Sanai, can you define US food? Cos I have a very hard time with that definition. The only one I have is BURGER, HOT DOGS.

I think that you have been replied to. Don't forget collard greens and hog jowls, grits and bacon, lettuce, tomato and avocado sandwiches.

...and Gumbo, one of my favorites.

[Sansai Sam]

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[realthaideal]

So, are we on track to be open tomorrow, April 18th, or not, Mr. BiB ? If not, when do you expect to be finished with the remodeling ?

[Priceless]

So, are we on track to be open tomorrow, April 18th, or not, Mr. BiB ? If not, when do you expect to be finished with the remodeling ?

May I suggest this thread?

/ Priceless

[Ulysses G.]

Re-opening Wed. 20 April according to this. .

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/460729-controversial-announcement-from-butter-is-better/page__view__findpost__p__4357382

[ChangMaiSausage]

We stayed in CM over the Christmas period and luckily I ventured into Butter is Better one afternoon, I must say their burger was amazing I would normally not order a burger but after three weeks of eatng Thai I needed a change. The only problem was that this was the last day of our vacation, I will return.