Perfection comes with practice, and Maile’s love obsession with Red Chili Peppers came with a lot of practice, and a lot of heat. Growing her tolerance over time Maile will out hot your tastebuds with ease, even coining her signature extreme heat level, Maile Hot! Even with all the heat you will find yourself continually eating, because the food is that good. But don’t worry, you can enjoy her culinary delights without the heat if your mouth must surrender and wave the white flag.
Maileās culinary career was inspired by watching her mother and family cook traditional Lao, Thai and French food. Family gatherings people sat together sharing a few dishes and eating sticky rice, shredding green papaya and making mouthwatering salads along with meats with herbs of lemongrass, mint, basil and dill. Maile learned all the traditional recipes and then started experimenting with different ingredients.
Opening Maile Thai in 2008 in Hawaii Kai took a lot of convincing of the locals who were not familiar with Thai cuisine. So Maile infused her Thai dishes with the taste and familiarity of Hawaii and Honolulu would never be the same.
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Artist Lauren Trangmar was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. She began her undergraduate studies in Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury before transferring to the University of Hawaiāi at Manoa where she attained her BFA in Graphic Design. Her work has been included in numerous private collections and exhibitions in Honolulu, Kauaāi, North Carolina, Australia and New Zealand; the most notable being Honolulu Museum of Artās, Artists of Hawaiāi 2015 exhibition where she produced a body of work that was purchased for the museumās permanent collection. She has also completed artist residencies in Honolulu, Kauaāi and North Carolina.