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Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the spectator's food and drink podcast. I'm Lara Prendergast and I'm Olivia Potts. And today we're delighted to be joined by Luke Farrell. Luke is the founder

of two of last year's hottest openings in the restaurant world, Plaza

Calgain and Speedboat Bar, both furiously spicy Thai restaurants in central London.

He spent the last 15 years living in Thailand, as well as working on his nursery, Ryewater,

in Dorset, where he grows a living library of Thai ingredients in his six tropical greenhouses.

Luke, welcome to Table Talk.

Thanks for having me.

Luke, we're going to start where we always do at the beginning and ask you, what are your

earliest memories of food?

You know, I was actually asking my mum about this not so long ago and she told me about a particular time in

London's Chinatown at a restaurant called New World Restaurant and I've been going there since I

remember it no longer exists and when I was very small I used to love going there and having

dim sum it's opposite the fire station there so when I was very small, I used to love going there and having dim sum.

It's opposite the fire station there.

So when I was a small boy, you could go and see the fire trucks and then go and have some Chinese food,

which was really a great day out, basically.

And I remember sitting on one of these large, you know, those massive tables with the lazy Susan, you know, and all of this stuff going around.

And it was the crispy wantons that really got me.

My mum told me that I was already ordering from the menu at this point for everyone.

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