The noodles here are basically limited to a gnarly version of the Southern rice-noodle dish khanom jin yam na, which you may know from Jitlada, and a restrained take on the Northern khao soi, which might make you yearn for the cheeseball coffee-creamer-laced versions in town.
The new theater, while generic from the street, has a restrained glamour in its public spaces, dominated by the glowing onyx exterior wall of the auditorium.
By the end of the premiere, Nigella had made her second choice: a trailer-living home-cook from Mississippi who baked a "restrained' flourless chocolate cake with pistachio brittle.
He had batted with intelligence and patience on a pitch he later described as "sluggish" to make 68 from 84 balls, sharing a restrained third-wicket stand of 113 in 21 overs with Jonathan Trott – although the Bears then lost their way before Peter McKay, a young wicketkeeper filling in for the injured Tim Ambrose, plundered 19 of the 20 conceded by David Masters in the 50th over.
It's not a broth with a lot of bombast — just a restrained meatiness from pork, an ocean-bottom accent from seaweed, a mouthwatering underpinning of umami from dried scallop oil and a resounding, sometimes overwhelming, hit of salt.
For all that his players were succeeding in keeping Chelsea on a reasonably tight rein, odd little menacing cameos from a generally restrained Torres hinted at potential trouble ahead.
"This tank wobbled a little bit," he said, making a hand motion like a restrained wave from a pope.
Cherry resigned from the party and apologised for his "thoughtless and extremely foolish" remarks – which does seem a restrained understatement from the man responsible for conjuring up that richly redolent "sex volcano" image.
By the finale, it was a weirdly timely narrative about the origins of female rage, presented with an icy, dreamlike clarity and strengthened by a restrained performance from Sarah Gadon.
However, McGregor's thumped effort found the far corner and Rangers were in front again - with no sign of a restrained celebration from the former Cowdenbeath defender.
