Em-Orn, Sabai

Em-Orn Thongar-ar Sabai, The Mall, Waterford.

Thai cooking is all about using the freshest ingredients possible - & you can't get fresher than local in-season produce, which is exactly what Em-Orn, head chef at SABAI strives to use in all her recipes, a perfect match for LOVE FOOD SPEND LESS, because when you buy local & in season - you don't just enjoy optimum taste & nutrition you have the added value that because the produce is not travelling from afar its cheaper too.

Em-Orn Thongar-ar, head chef at Sabai Thai and Vietnamese restaurant is a force to be reckoned with!. With over 40 years experience and more than 200 recipes committed to memory, she is a chef that delivers. She is the definition of creative, when she is not cooking she is carving ornate sculptures from anything she can find, sometimes even soap!

Em-Orn’s passion for good food is no less now that when she first started cooking as a young girl, learning first from her mother and then moving on to qualify professionally as a chef, she insists on good quality, fresh ingredients in season, while some of her dishes are incredibly complicated others are simple, she believes that if the ingredient is good enough then just the smallest of enhancements is enough, a squeeze of lime juice, a dash of fish sauce and it’s done.

Sabai Thai and Vietnamese Restaurant serves delicious authentic cuisine in beautiful surroundings at 19 The Mall, Waterford. Sabai is the second venture for owners Catherine and Seamus Heffernan, who operated Tuk Tuk Thai Restaurant in Canada St for 10 years. Sabai has an extensive menu & a fantastic selection of wines & cocktails. Unique to Waterford Sabai has a private courtyard perfect for outdoor dining, or pre dinner drinks when the sun shines. 

Click here to try out some of Em-Orn’s recipes.