Two long-nosed Super Chefs!
Quite high up: How Marzahner chefs were twins one notch restaurants in Bangkok - "mezzaluna"
Guests of the "Mezzaluna" seeing double at times. This is not due to the fine wines that are served here. The chef of Bangkok's luxury restaurants are twins and live in Berlin.From a housing estate have Marzahner Mathias and Thomas Sühring the plunge in the Thai capital, accomplished - and thus in the leading group of gourmet restaurants.
The "Dome" with its golden dome is the crown of the State Tower 247 meters high. In the upper part of the second highest skyscraper in the city is home to the luxury hotel Lebua. About 357 rooms and suites begin on the 63rd Stick with a Sky Bar, the culinary highlight of the city with a breathtaking view over the city.
The Oriental ferries on the Chao Phraya seem tiny from up here. About the bar leads then to the top of the dome. Here in the 65th Floor is the kingdom of the two Berlin. The twins have turned the once Italian Restaurant "Mezzaluna" a gourmet paradise, whose guests also Crown Prince Maha Vajoralongkorn counts. This play also scenes of the current cinema hit "Hangover 2".
The fact that their sons would one day end up here, would the parents of the twins at 30April 1977 dared not even dream of. At intervals of five minutes saw Thomas and Mathias in Friedrichshain Hospital the light of day.
The sons of a carpenter and an administrative staff grew up in Marzahn and witnessed the fall of the wall when she was twelve. When the O-level was in the house, was from the 34th Polytechnic High School at the Landsberger Tor Comprehensive School has become the third Marzahn.Because they lacked a professional perspective, the brothers decided to take advantage of new opportunities and to make the high school.
The grandmother, who was on her property near Frankfurt (Oder) kept pigs and vegetables were cultivated, since the twins have helped on occasion while preparing hearty fare like Solyanka or green-bean casserole.
Later she worked in the school holidays in the hospital kitchen Friedrichshain. To their birthplace, they were now allowed to wash dishes. Abi first came after the military service.
But what then? The decisive tip, the then girlfriend of Thomas. "Why do not you cook?" Because the twins wanted to have a good start, she competed in 1998 only in the best houses in the capital. Thomas got an apprenticeship at the Hilton on the Gendarmenmarkt, Mathias in Angleterre on Friedrichstrasse - and both came in her profession by chance quickly to the taste. In 2001 she won in Maastricht with the junior national team of chefs the world title.
After the training, she asked chef Sven Elberfeld, whether they wanted to work in his star restaurant "Aqua" in Wolfsburg. Three years later, Thomas moved to Rome to Dutch Mathias Zwolle. To Thomas in 2007 the call from Bangkok. "Actually, I wanted to go to Asia, but I thought I would learn so much and yet it is still too early even to be chef," he recalls. This was followed by talks with parents, friends and brother Mathias. All encouraged him and then met the twins a momentous decision. "I said, I suppose, if my brother can come as an equal partner." In early 2008 it went off.
"That was the right step," says Thomas Sühring today. Although they found no professional workers, because there is a lesson for kitchen staff does not exist in Thailand. "But people are very inquisitive and have a good grasp," says Brother Mathias. "It takes a lot of patience, then you can also achieve a lot with the team." So the twins have ventured after three years of the step, the "Mezzaluna" change to a modern, innovative gourmet offering, which includes not only the best ingredients from 15 countries also increased Use of Thai products counts.
"Now we can play around with all the ingredients and cooking styles," says Thomas Sühring. Only at the team meeting in the morning will determine what comes in the evening on the table. In addition to conjure up a three-course menu à la carte, the twins in their guest room to the open kitchen is a daily changing six-course dinner. "It promotes creativity," says Mathias. Meanwhile, in addition to foreign visitors, more and more Thais are among our guests who are actually aware that they eat what they do not know.
The "Mezzaluna" has only 40 seats, this is a small side room. 20-40 menus produce twins with her 14-member kitchen and service team of ten people per evening. "I think we're on the right path," says Mathias and Thomas adds: "We have so many ideas."With stars, it has not worked, because Michelin is available in Asia so far only expenditures for Tokyo and Hong Kong / Macau.
The kitchen is spoken not only between the German brothers. A colleague from the service comes from Hamburg, the trainee from Magdeburg and barman Alex from South Tyrol. Homesickness does not have the twins in Thailand, family and friends they have already visited. Conversely, it found the brothers also always nice to return to Berlin for a visit, even though it recently had very few opportunities.
The interest in events in her hometown is undiminished. The Sühring wonder if Klaus Wowereit remains well-mayor.And how does Hertha BSC after the re-emergence in the Bundesliga. Until further information can be their thirst from a distance, silent - via satellite TV
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