A Thai Feast - "The Land". On Sunday the 8th of March, a pop-up dinner by Chef Hong Thaimee of Ngam, NYC was hosted by Paper Co. Houston. The funds raised from the dinner went towards the Paper Co. mission of being "A Cafe for All" and what was initially planned to be a single dinner ended up becoming two (well, kinda three actually). The first one (this one) with a land theme, and the second (post coming soon) with a seafood theme. (Update: "Thai Feast No. 2: The Sea" is now online - 3/26/15)

MENU

THE LAND

• Hand Washing Ceremony
  
• Happy Tiger (Coffee Crusted Steak with Spicy Jiaw Dipping Sauce)
  
• Hunglay (Braised Pork Belly and Pork Neck - as seen on Iron Chef America)
  
• Baby Ribs (Thai Style BBQ)
  
• Thai Burger (Ngam's Famous Burger)
  
• Brother Chai's Chicken Wings
  

SIDE DISHES

• Papaya Salad
  
• Watermelon Slaw
  
• Chiang Mai Fries
  
• Sticky Rice
  

DESSERT

• Thai Iced Tea Semifreddo
  

It was a pleasure meeting Chef Hong and to photograph and see her work along side the awesome Paper Co. crew, and her sous-chef par excellence - Gang ,who came down from NY to help make this happen. Stay tuned for Feast No. 2 - "The Sea"!

P.S.: Paper Co. is open for dinner Thursday - Sunday evenings. On Instagram you can find Paper Co., Hong Thaimee and Ngam NYC at @papercohouston, @hongthaimee and @ngamnyc respectively.

Lukas Wade // Artist - Houston, TX

You can see some of his work on Society6 at http://bit.ly/lw_s6 and he'll be the featured #artist in this show on April 1 - http://bit.ly/lw_raw

Bethany is a brilliant singer, actress, and I think I can now add to that list - my friend. She's based here in Houston and we collaborated on this shoot a couple of weeks ago. A selection of photos from the first part of our shoot follow below & my suggestion is that you hit the play button below to hear her amazing voice as you scroll through the gorgeous photographs from our session.

I'd like to say thank you to a few people who helped to make this shoot happen:

• Eric Hartley (538 Studio) for hunting down the vintage rotary phone;
• Claudia De Velasco (A Day To Remember) for helping make the flowers happen; and
• The ladies of Fill In The Blank Studio (Kari, Jayne & Nicki), where we shot this.
  

And not the least of all, a big giant thank you to Bethany McCade - for being a fantastic model, doing her own hair & makeup and being an excellent collaborator on this shoot. Thank you Bethany, could not have done this without you! 

 Stay tuned for Look #2. 

 - D.