A Tiny Thai Restaurant In Remote Greenland Serves Up Spice (And Whale Skin Soup)
When Suriya Paprajong arrived in Greenland in 2001, he didn't even have a coat. These days, his eatery in Qaqortoq, population 3,000, is a local favorite, melding Thai flavors with an Arctic twist.
Suriya Paprajong remembers the day he first set eyes on Greenland. It was the middle of winter in 2001 and he had just gotten off a long plane ride from his homeland, Thailand, where the temperature was 104 degrees Farenheit. The temperature in Greenland was -43 degrees. Paprajong didn't have a coat.
"It's very hard when we come to ... Greenland," he recalls. "It's a lot of snow. The body, it's like a shock."
His first
