Mr. Ricker, a 47-year-old, six-foot-tall native Vermonter now based in Portland, Ore., has become an unlikely ambassador for Thai food in the United States. Your only visual clue that he is someone who knows his nahm phrik noom from his nahm phrik ong is a glimpse at his right arm, which is tattooed with a mortar and pestle, bird’s eye chiles, and the holy trinity of northern Thai herbs — cilantro, green onion and phak chi farang (the last often known in the West as sawtooth).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/travel/in-chiang-mai-a-chef-traces-his-menus.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Tracing His Menus Back to Chiang Mai

Just to be clear this article is CM related.

Is that the fellow we saw with Andy Bourdain on CNN eating yuk around CM.?

Thanks for the post.

This article dates back to November 2011 - hopefully all the places listed are still open and in the same location