Customers pack nearly every table and most of the bar at Farmhouse Thai Eatery in Lakewood, even though it’s not even noon on a weekday. “Why is it always so busy here?” asks one customer to his ...

Farmhouse Kitchen Thai is Chef Kasem “Pop” Saengsawang’s third restaurant, which he co-owns with his wife, and his first venture into the Mission. The family also co-owns Kitchen Story (Castro) and ...

The rice is blue. I’ve never seen blue rice before at a Thai restaurant or anywhere. An inquiry reveals that it gets its cornflower color from the blue pea flower imported from Thailand. The coloring ...

Clitoria ternatea is the agent that’s turning the rice blue at Farmhouse Kitchen in the Mission. That’s butterfly pea flower to the uninitiated, which grows native in tropical Asia. The World Wide Web ...