I finally made it to this amazing restaurant. This amazing Thai restaurant gets really crowded and they do not take reservations on Fridays and Saturdays. Plus, reservation are taken only for more than 6 people. Therefore, I highly recommend that if there is a group make sure that everyone shows up on time or else you will have to wait a long time. Wait time can go over two hours. It’s a great place to have dinner with a group of friends.
Food was amazing and service was on point for a very busy restaurant. While I waiting for my friends, I had the mango sunrise mocktail, which was very refreshing and held me over until everyone showed up. Once all my friends showed up, we were finally seated.
Once we were seated, we decided to go family style after observing other diners’ main order entrees. To start we ordered the:
Pak Mor Puk ($9): Vegetable crepe dumplings made up of chives, cabbage, jicama, black mushrooms and bamboo shoots and served with roasted bell pepper-peanut vinaigrette dipping sauce. These dumplings are served in few Thai restaurants and is dish that is served to Thai royal families. The dumplings are to die for. I wish there would be more than four dumplings per order, but watching how these dumplings are assembled and made, it’s no easy task, hence the price of the appetizer.
Por Pia Tod ($9): Crispy vegetable spring rolls made up of glass noodles, taro root, shiitake mushrooms and served with plum sauce. These spring rolls were standard and solid. They come 6 rolls per order.
Sa Koo Sai Moo ($11): Tapioca dumplings stuffed with minced pork, peanuts and sweet turnips and served with green leaf lettuce. Another dish that takes a lot of time to make let alone master. There are five dumplings per order. These dumplings are the best finger food/bite I have had and there are only a few restaurants that do it correctly, this is one of them. Definitely worth the $11.
Spicy Chicken Wings ($14): Deep fried marinated tom yum flavor wings with Thai herbs garnished. These wings are a bit messy but tasty. Unsure if it’s worth $14 for 5 wings.
Chicken Satay ($11): Grilled marinated chicken on skewers, served with peanut sauce, cucumber relish, and grilled brioche. The dish was standard, glad that the dish included the grilled brioche to make is more complete. The peanut sauce is really good made the overall dish well balanced.
For the entrees we shared the following:
Chicken with Cashew Nut ($17): Spicy chicken with pineapple, jicama, cashew nut, roasted bell pepper, scallions and chili jam. Served with jasmine rice. The dish was very good and authentically spicy enough for the Thai American crowd that could handle spice.
Kaeng Neur Lamyai Bai Chapoo ($27): Braised jarret beef, betel leaves, curry paste, coconut milk and longan meat, served with Jasmine rice. This dish is not served in many Thai restaurants, but it was definitely worth the price. The dish had well balanced flavors and the right amount of spice kick which complemented well with the rice.
We also ordered a side of Steamed Assorted Vegetables ($5), which was a good amount for the price and it complemented the spicy entrees.
Finally, the dish I have been wanting to try and waited over 10 years is Royal Pad Thai ($24) which is pad thai encapsulated in a crepe. In this case, this dish is made of prawns, shallots, bean sprouts, chive leaves, peanut bean curd and dried shrimp wrapped in net. The dish is beautifully presented and definitely worth the price because it could feed more than one person. A one of a kind.
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