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| - There is a range of how Americanized Thai food can be, and Thai Street Cafe ranges a little more on the "Americanized" side than a lot of Thai restaurants in Vegas. They do it fairly well, but for me this place just doesn't have very exciting food.
I ordered the green curry, something I tend to do on possible falsely rated restaurants on Yelp. It came in a very strange sort of serving tray, split into fours and accompanied by a salad, white rice, and a veggie egg roll. I had no place to pour my curry on the rice, so the serving style is definitely catered for Americans, which is fine. I have to say though that the egg roll was my favorite part. Not because it was particularly well done, but because they use honey in their sweet and sour sauce. Yummy!
The curry, however, was a bit of a let down. I ordered beef. The beef was the typical strips, not particularly outstanding, but not tough and overcooked either. The curry tasted like they add a lot of milk based cream. I couldn't really taste any coconut. It had the consistency of Alfredo sauce, which makes me believe cream was used (authentic Bangkok style Thai curry is soupy). There's nothing really wrong with that; coconut milk is expensive. But I want my curry to taste like Thai coconut curry, not weird Alfredo sauce. The zucchini that they used gave it a nice touch, along with the traditional green and red bell peppers. Overall though, the curry was a little too sweet and generic tasting, and very heavy. I ordered a 7/10 heat, and it tasted more like a 2/10. Yes, the heat levels are Americanized too.
Very nice service, and very nice atmosphere (minus the strip club parking). The food, however, isn't worth traveling to for me. It's definitely Americanized, and while not offensive in any way, just not very exciting.
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