Until May 31, one of Bangkok’s most recognizable tea houses, TWG Tea, is offering a special new summer set-menu featuring sweet and savory dishes infused with high-end aromatic tea leaves to help ease the pain of the smoldering temperatures of Thai summer.

The set-menu includes one starter, main, dessert and a special tea (all for a very respectable B890). If you don’t want to down three whole courses, you can snag any of the new menu items a la carte (B300 per dish). To get the summer feast rolling, try the Duck Summer Roll featuring a large duck breast wrapped in fresh herbs and ripe mango—all enhanced with the tang of orange acar sauce infused with Miraculous Mandarin Tea. If you are yearning for an oriental touch, go for the healthy Watermelon Feta Quinoa Salad, which highlights the Summer Palace Tea—a blend of green tea and cherry blossom.

There’s a choice of two mains here. The Tom Kha Risotto combines Italian risotto with locally sourced chicken alongside fresh coconut and galangal infused with Coconut Tea broth. Can’t take the heat? Take the Crab and Truffle Capelette—homemade egg pasta stuffed with sweet crab meat and truffle in a pumpkin sauce infused with Comptoire des Indes Tea and brown sage butter.

The desserts here marry sweet flavors and tea notes well. The Summer Eden features strawberry jelly packed inside a fluffy vanilla sponge cake infused with 1837 Black Tea assisted by crunchy watermelon, fromage blanc sorbet and a mint and cucumber jelly. If you are looking for more traditional Thai flavors, go for the Mango Granite with Sticky Rice, which infuses Alfonso Tea into a ripe mango granite served along with freshly diced mango, coconut foam and mellow banana cream.

For more information: Tel. 0-2259- 9510.
TWG Tea Salon & Boutique, found at Siam Paragon and Emporium