Try the crispy Chinese watercress salad. The star green in this salad is lightly battered and deep-fried to gently temper its bitterness. It’s one of our #100best dishes and drinks of 2011. Read more.
Unassuming restaurant serves some of the best Thai food in the city. When the president of Siam is in town, this is where he orders delivery. Make sure you get something off of the “Secret Menu.”
"Miang kana bundles together fresh ginger, red onion, roasted peanuts, toasted coconut, dried shredded pork, fish sauce, palm sugar and lime juice with betel or Chinese broccoli leaves" ($9.95). Read more.
Thai specialty store across the street from SriPaPhai with typical and more exotic Thai ingredients for cooking at home.
Try the beef with chili. Wok-charred beef is tossed w/ kafir lime leaves & green beans, then bathed in a orange-tinted sauce of turmeric & Thai chilies. It’s one of our #100best dishes & drinks 2011. Read more.
Try the spicy and sweet kai tod, Asian fried chicken with a garlicky marinade, sweet chili dipping sauce and succulent flesh. It’s one of our #100best dishes and drinks of 2011. Read more.
Try the Black Sesame Seaweed ice cream. It balances the deeply roasted notes of black sesame with a particularly milky ice cream, while bits of dried seaweed pops with unexpected umami. Read more.
New. Size? 200-seat restaurant Specialty? Thai tapas Taste » Spicy Pork Trotter (http://goo.gl/Pf7Bn). Here is the menu » http://goo.gl/l5QxG. Owned by Chef Pichet Ong & Sripraphai Tipmanee Read more.
Try num tok koy ($9), a Thai steak tartare not served at Manhattan's Z.E. "The mound of ground lean beef is seasoned with roasted chili powder, lime juice, kaffir lime leaf, onion, mint and cilantro." Read more.
The owner is so helpful. Just tell him what Thai dish you're cooking and he'll show you where each ingredient is, tell you the difference in the brands, and even explain how to cook it!
Second restaurant of Top Chef star Harold Dieterle, try the Spicy Duck Laab, Warm Sliced Snap Peas with Bay Scallops, Rabbit Leg Yellow Curry, and Goat Massaman Curry Read more.
Daily Candy's reco's: Salted black crab and coconut dip crudite, Northern Thai noodles (chicken, cilantro, mustard greens) and Crispy, ginger-sauced skate (rice noodles, egg, dried anchovies). Read more.
Decorated like a Southeast Asian market this place has the quirk of one too - Here that means food far hotter, sauces more tart and even portions more generous.
The food remains the star. Like the house-made sai krok e-san, a slightly fermented sausage; pad prik king pla duk foo,ground catfish fried and tossed with chopped string beans in mild red curry paste
Thai home cooking in Clinton. A rich oxtail soup sets the tone. Salad with sausage, crispy duck and fried rice explodes it into harmony.
Excellent Isan Thai food in a neighborhood full of mediocre competition. Ask for serious spice and you'll get it.
Khao mun kai, which means “oiled-rice chicken” (eim means “full”), is the popular Thai adaptation of a common Hainanese street food and the specialty of this Elmhurst storefront shop.
