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| - Word on the street is that there are three great Thai restaurants right now: Jitlada (Hollywood), Pok Pok (Portland), and Lotus of Siam (Vegas). In Fall 2011, Mr R and I set out to try all three. We lovingly referred to it as our Thai Trifecta, or Thai-fecta, if you will.
We completed the Thai-fecta in December by visiting Lotus of Siam.
The place is huge but cleaner and nicer than its strip mall implies. We arrived on a Saturday night at about 8:45 and we were seated after a 5 minute wait.
We had already studied the menu and knew what we'd order:
Nam Kao Tod - it was exactly as I imagined, but still not my favorite dish. The lime in some Thai foods is not my favorite and this was a spicy, crunchy rice (not like fried rice, but more like a rice krispie) with sour sausage, onions, spice...and lots of lime. It was pretty spicy so I ate it with cucumbers.
Spicy Drunken Noodles with Prawns - I love drunken noodles and these were pretty good. The prawns were huge and meaty - they still had the shells and little baby legs on them. I confirmed a few times, "we eat the shell, right?" and they said yes. So I did. I could manage the shell but the legs freaked me out a bit.
Nam Prick Ong - Mr R loved this and I liked it a lot. Its spicy ground pork with red chiles that you scoop onto vegetables, pork rinds, or sticky rice. We ordered the sticky rice just to keep our options open, but I really enjoyed it with the carrots and pork rinds. The rice made it more filling and wasn't necessary.
Overall, Lotus of Siam was good and we'd come back.
The entire Thai-fecta was an interesting exercise and while these are three great restaurants known for overall great food and a couple of really unique or famous dishes - I still love my local favorite Thai places.
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