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BREAK FROM THE TRADITIONAL: main image, Vietnamese dishes served at Noya’s Kitchen Above, more mouthwatering street food from Seadog and Hoba kebabs, also to be found in Kingsmead Square during December
crossover point very successfully. At the age of seven, Noya Pawlyn and her family fled southern Vietnam as a refugee during the 1970s conflict. Now living in Bear Flat with a family of her own, Noya’s instinctive feel for recreating the dishes of her homeland led to her inspirational idea to host pop-up supper clubs at a tiny café around the corner from her home. Since hosting her first pop-up in 2013, the events proved to be immensely successful; places were often fully-booked months in advance.
her own takeaway service next year. Until then, an advance booking only supper club service offering a tasting menu based the food that Noya loves to cook will be offered from Thursday to Saturday evenings, and lunch served from Monday through to Saturday. While Bath may not be known for a city that starts revolutions, these tasteful folk serving up their fresh, international cuisine to growing numbers of appreciative customers, are most definitely taking to the streets. n
But as of this month, we don’t have to wait quite so long to sample Noya’s vibrant Vietnamese cuisine, as she’s opened her own restaurant on St James’s Parade. Noya has created an environment that’s as warm, welcoming and sociable as her previous informal supper club – and anybody who has eaten their way around, say, Saigon, or Hanoi, or Da Nang, will know that not all real Vietnamese street food has to be eaten on the actual street; cafés, teahouses, noodle bars and restaurants offer eatin and takeaway services. Noya plans
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