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| - Another Thai restaurant open up in Entertainment District, owners from Sukho Thai and Gusto 101. It is hidden in the basement, the décor is like abandon factory with old relics, wooden chairs and tables. We've made reservations and luckily we were able to get our table pretty quickly. The place was packed with the dinner crowd, it's pretty noisy in there and lots of people traffic walking around.
We first had the papaya salad with salted crab. When we ordered it, we thought we would get pieces of crab. When the plate came, we were searching really hard for the crab and couldn't see any. As we dig into the papaya salad, we found little pieces of crab shell and that was is. It was suppose to be only there for flavouring and no crab meat. Boo. The salad was made from green papaya, it is hard like a cabbage, not the orange papaya. I wasn't a fan, it was served on a big plate with a few shrimp chips and vermicelli, the papaya salad was piled as a small tower in the centre but not much to eat. Not worth the $12.
After the salad, our food took pretty long before it came. But when it came, all the dishes came at the same time. We ordered 3 mains as recommendation from the server. Chicken pad thai ($14) - this was my favourite out of the dishes. The homemade tamarind sauce was excellent, not like the other "fake" pad thai which tastes like ketchup. The noodles was stir fried just right, not mushy or too hard. Next dish was Gaeng Hunglay ($15) - sweet & sour curry with ox tail served with rice. It was served in a clay pot which was interesting. If it was served on a stove and bubbling as well, that would be cool. The ox tail has been cooked to tender, the meat is very soft and falls off the bone. The sweet and sour curry was good but I still prefer the golden curry. Final dish was Pad Gra Prow ($15) - famous street food in Thailand. Stir fried ground meat with basil served on rice and topped with a thai style fried egg with pork belly. The pork belly was crispy, not just the skin but the meat part as well. It was very tasty. The egg with the ground meat on rice was original, not that special so the pork belly made the difference.
We were all pretty full from all the food between the 4 of us. The service was good when the serve finally comes to our table. It's too busy and hard to get anybody's attention here.
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