The First Group Therapy Session with the Mood Therapist is coming…Join the first Group Therapy Session at Cama ATK on Thursday 22 October 2015 at 8pm for a cursory diagnostic examination before being swiftly prescribed a full course of five delicious cocktails by the Mood Therapist.
Firstly the standard stuff! The (main) liquor cabinet now fills three shelves and it’s only a matter of time before the fourth shelf falls. In addition there are several other depositaries for additional bottles…
What do you get when you put together an experimental chef and a self-styled mood therapist? Something explosive. Words by Nick Ross. Photos by Vu Bao Khanh
At the start of September, photos circulated around the Hanoi online ether of two men dressed up in nuclear reactor-style protective clothing. Surrounded by smoke and with a large canister of liquid nitrogen in the background, the men were compared by some to characters in the TV series, Breaking Bad.
But these were no former high-school chemistry teachers, no Walter Whites. Instead, the man in the glasses is the chef de cuisine of the JW Marriott, Raphael Szurek, and the guy with the Fidel Castro-like beard is Richard McDonough, a modernist cocktail maker or, as he likes to call himself, a mood therapist. Together they were teaming up to create probably the most unusual dinner ever seen in Vietnam — Molecular Night
Maroued on a Dessert Island is a decadent rum based cocktail featuring premium Vietnamese cacao from my friends at the artisanal chocolatiers, Marou. The cacao nibs from Ben Tre province are pressure-infused using an ISI siphon into 7 or 12 year old Flor de Cana rum (depending on how flush I’m feeling) which helps release all the deliciously rich chocolate notes without any bitterness or the need for sugar. [Read more…]
The Mood Therapist was delighted to serve up a selection of modernist cocktails to a great crowd, including the Ambassador to the United States of America, Mr. Ted Osius, at the ASEAN Pride Festival 2015 held at the American Club in Hanoi on 20 June 2015. [Read more…]
