We all get the DGTs - Difficult Guest Tremors - in this town. For instance, one visitor may be too arrogant to like Chinese food on its own terms, but feels it is his 'duty' to sample it. Or a Southeast Asian visitor may find anything outside his cuisine indigestible.
If you have two visitors fitting both profiles, entertaining the DGs can be difficult unless you can find 'the right place'.
Specifically, it is a restaurant which isn't too posh, too noisy, too quiet, too exotic, too boring, or too tourist-oriented, yet isn't too, well, native, either.
Last week, I found a 'right place' in the prosaic-sounding Chau's Restaurant. It seemed custom-built for my two difficult guests.
One was a very, very British gentleman who believes food should be simple, boiled and served with hot mustard. The other was a very, very Laotian gentleman from Thailand who believes food should be spicy, fermented and served with hot women.
A tall order to meet both their needs, yet Chau's Restaurant did just that.