A dark and rainy Friday night. Driving around Etobicoke/Mississauga looking for a restaurant and made a wrong turn. This is how a lot of horror and/or porno movies begin.
After getting gas, we decided to give up on looking for the original place. Looking across the street, we said 'How about Thai instead?'.
I've been to Tasted of Thailand before, but haven't been back for a few years because we generally forget that it's there. Nestled between an abandoned motorcycle store now turned radio station and an adult novelty store, it's kinda hard to miss.
The restaurant is small and cozy. The white linen table cloths denote that this is going to be a bit classier than the typical Spring Rolls experience. Restaurant was pretty full, mostly with what look liked couples celebrating date night and also a few young couples with delightfully mute babies.
We order the appetizer platter ($12.95), mango salad ($6.95), tamarind beef ($9.95) and shrimp pad thai ($10.95).
Instead of a bread basket, we were brought a small basket of shrimp chips with peanut dipping sauce. It was good and would have liked a bigger basket.
Food came quickly. Everything tasted fresh and hot. Pad thai had a nice 'wok hay' and tamarind beef was crispy and not too oily.
Finished off the meal with the fried banana and coconut ice cream dessert ($7.95). Left feeling satisfyingly full and glad we didn't find that other restaurant we were looking for.