WASHING-UP
Going Green
Anantara Chiang Mai Resort looks to heighten the dining experience with nutrition-rich cannabis-infused menus.
Touted by some for its health-boosting
rules. While the flowers, buds and seeds remain
properties, cannabis has undergone something
off-limits, other parts of the plant, particularly
of a makeover in recent years. The legalisation of
the leaves, which contain significant levels of
marijuana in some countries quickly caught the
vitamins but do not feature psychoactive THC,
attention of hotel operators looking to take the
make an appearance on the restaurant’s fine-
guest experience to the next level, notably, The
dining menu, ensuring the cannabis-curious
Standard who in 2018 partnered with cannabis
and those just looking to ease the aches and
company Lord Jones to stock its line of CBD
pains associated with travelling can get their fill
(cannabidiol) gumdrops at a handful of its US
without feeling dazed.
properties. Going beyond the minibar and gift
Diners can now feast on signature dishes such
shop, the plant has also found its way onto
as deep-fried seabass with cannabis leaves and
restaurant menus, as chefs turn their hand to
pork spare ribs with cannabis soup, accompanied
cannabis-focused cuisine.
by drinks including H.I.D. (Hemp in Distiller) with
Anantara Chiang Mai Resort in Thailand has
fresh leaves, monsoon jasmine tea, pandan leaf,
sought to heighten the dining experience at
dry orange, and the refreshing Cannabis Fizzy,
The Service 1921 Restaurant & Bar through the
which includes soda, apple nectar, pineapple
launch of a cannabis-infused food and drink
juice, lime juice, cannabis syrup, topped with
menu, following a relaxation of the government
cannabis leaf for added authenticity.
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