I’ve been craving a plate of Thai banana roti, and yet my body, mind, and spirit do not want to mix or stretch any roti. Instead, I’ve made Thai banana faux-ti using phyllo dough, and it was a ...

Advocate staff photo by Ian McNulty - Thai roti bread is wrapped around Nutella chocolate spread for a dessert at Banana Blossom in Gretna. Advocate staff photo by Ian McNulty - Ramen with pork ...

The menu at Banana Blossom (2112 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, 504-392-7530) starts with fine-tuned Thai cooking but keeps expanding, adding flavors from BBQ shrimp to Nutella to the pantry of coconut ...

Somehow, food always seems to taste better when it's shared. And not just as it's passed around a table, but also when it travels across borders. The South Asian subcontinent has passed down its ...

BANGKOK — Traffic in Bangkok is maddening. It’s not unusual to hop on a bus or sahng taew (a pickup with a covered bed and benches along the side that more or less functions like a bus), roll forward ...

The move is nothing really. It’s just about two miles straight down the same road. But to Jimmy Cho it’s everything. In March, he closed the original location of his Banana Blossom Thai Restaurant on ...