I was tucking into some delicious khao nieo mamuang (mangoes and sticky rice) at a friend’s house the other day and the conversation inevitably turned to teenage Thai rapper Milli, (Danupha Khanatheerakul) and her eye-catching performance at the Coachella music festival in California.
Some might argue it’s not really news, but at least it’s sort of cheerful and I’ll settle for that over all the bleak reports we are subjected to on a daily basis. I wonder if Milli could help out the Brits in similar fashion by performing a show featuring strawberries and cream?
I’m not much of a rap fan but was impressed by Milli’s stage presence and rapid-fire vocals at Coachella. Her creative promotion of mangoes and sticky rice reportedly prompted a surge of sales of the dish in Thailand, not that any Thais really needed reminding of its appeal.
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