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| - To avoid all the turkey dinners over Christmas (which I totally would not mind!), our families decided to have our christmas gathering at a Thai restaurant. Searching for a place that would not be too loud, have good food, and a mandatory - A ROUND TABLE for good conversation, I decided to book Mengrai because if good reviews, a unique menu, in addition to your traditional ones, and good location for everyone to get to.
When making my reservation, the staff was very generous to give me the round table (that I've seen from the photos), and prior to the evening, they called to let me know that I would only be allowed for a 2 hours seating due to another party. It was totally understandable and courteous for the heads up.
There are 6 free parking spots outside their restaurant and we were lucky enough to park in the last one. At 6 - the place had a few tables filled, but the emptiness did not last long. Between seven people, we pretty much ordered a wide selection of dishes -
1. street style pad thai which had a bit of sweetness, although I felt there wasn't as much shrimp as I had expected. the flavours were bold and delicious, and the noodles were not soggy, giving it good textures with all the different ingredients
2. Their special mengrai SASI pad thai - the restaurant's own pad thai - this is not sweet at all, so that's a whole different set of flavours. I have to say that because it wasn't sweet, it was not my favourite, although very very good. It was extremely saucy (which I like), and there were flavours of dried preserved shrimp which was very potent but added to the overall taste and texture. Between the whole table, most preferred this over the traditional sweeter pad thai.
3. Pineapple fried rice with beef. There was definitely a lot of beef and pineapple, served in the half shell, but I thought it was a little too oily. Maybe thai fried rice is made this way, or it could have been the beef. Still good, but could have lightened on the oil.
4 - 6: THREE CURRIES - their specialty included chicken and lychee, and two additional - one with lamb, and one with shrimp....... I cannot remember all the details of it, but I do remember that I could taste the difference in them all. The sauces all had a different character, whether, sweet, mild, or spicy. I especially like the one with the lychee because it had large pieces of fruit that added a nice sweetness to the whole dish.
All the dishes were eaten completely, not complaints and everyone agreed that it was delicious. At around 8m, the waitress politely told me that the next party would be arriving shortly so we finished our dessert (ice cream that was nothing out of the ordinary) and happily left with smiles on our faces.
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