{"id":1739,"date":"2008-11-17T19:29:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T03:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2008-11-17T19:29:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T03:29:56","slug":"why-you-should-eat-at-baan-thai-in-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/why-you-should-eat-at-baan-thai-in-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should eat at Baan Thai in Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Victoria, BC. Tonight we had dinner at my favourite Thai restaurant in the world, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baanthaivictoria.ca\/\">Baan Thai<\/a>. \u00a0 There are two reason why I love it. \u00a0 First the food is fantastic&#8230;homestyle Thai food that is slightly to the high end of medium priced, but is worth every penny. \u00a0 And second, if you stay there until closing you will witness a lovely ritual. \u00a0 At closing, the staff pull all of the tables in the middle of the restaurant together and they lock the door and they all sit down together to eat their supper. \u00a0 The chefs lay out a meal of fresh food, not leftovers, all prepared just for the staff. \u00a0 To witness it is to see a business that runs like a family and you quickly realize why the staff are so cheerful and full of recommendations about the food.<\/p>\n<p>On that merit alone, I would support a business like that. \u00a0 So kudos to the owners of Bann Thai&#8230;we see what you are doing there, and it adds something beautiful to the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Victoria, BC. Tonight we had dinner at my favourite Thai restaurant in the world, Baan Thai. \u00a0 There are two reason why I love it. \u00a0 First the food is fantastic&#8230;homestyle Thai food that is slightly to the high end of medium priced, but is worth every penny. \u00a0 And second, if you stay there until closing you will witness a lovely ritual. \u00a0 At closing, the staff pull all of the tables in the middle of the restaurant together and they lock the door and they all sit down together to eat their supper. \u00a0 The chefs &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-s3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}