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| - SUMMARY: negative-1 stars for the appetizers | +3 stars for the curry
BACKGROUND: Las Vegas is a foodie backwater, regardless of what people say about the "fantastic food" in Vegas. They're referring to high-end restaurants, with celebrity chefs, in Vegas proper. For the most part, food experiences outside the Strip---or true, rare anomalies elsewhere---you might as well be in East Podunk, Middle America, circa 1987.
HOW GATA THAI STACKS UP: Even for the decidedly mediocre LV Valley, this is straight-up crappy, low-quality Thai food. For appetizers, my boyfriend and I ordered got crab rangoon, as well as wontons. The Crab Rangoon was small, strange-textured, tightly folded, **greasy** puffy wontons, with what apparently was seasoned clay stuffed into it.
I've only had pan-fried wontons/dumplings at the many dozens of Thai restaurants over the years. These were called "fried dumplings," but I just was not expecting literally fry-o-lator fried wontons, *dripping* with **grease**, fried within an inch of their lives, with tight nuggets of pork shrivelled into hard balls in the middle. We ended up tearing off most of the thick greasy wontons to eat the inside, which I pass on after 1, but my boyfriend scarfed down, and when he was done said "Ugh. Yeah, that was bad."
The green curry was actually pretty average curry. Not bad at all. 3 stars.
All the food was so salted so intensely your eyeballs almost dropped out, and the sauce was MSG Central. We're both jittery and pounding water now. Not the "treat night" we were hoping for.
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