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| - At last, I've found a Thai restaurant as good as those I remember from my old college town! Benjarong ROCKS.
I came here with several coworkers for lunch, and we all ordered from the lunch special, which was $6.95 for a main dish and rice, a cup of lemongrass soup, a really good egg roll and two Thai wontons. Delicious. The only thing that disappointed was that the soup had meat in it -- and I'm a vegetarian. They didn't have a veggie choice.
For my curry, I chose a green curry which came with pieces of fried tofu, crisp green beans, carrots, onions, bamboo and LOTS of basil. The green sauce it was swimming in was delicious. The quantity was huge, and we all took leftovers home.
In perusing their full menu online, I noted that they have a lot of dishes not commonly found on Thai menus, from many different regions of Thailand. And they even offer a vegetarian version of massaman curry, which I haven't found elsewhere in the Valley.
You can even order an entire fish, cooked Thai-style, if you want.
I can't wait to come back here and try more of their choices.
The one star deduction comes from the confusion at the time of payment. My friend gave her card, and the waitress (who was very friendly) came back and said it was declined. When my friend got back to work, she noticed that the money was deducted from her bank account anyway. The same friend said she had trouble with a credit card last time, too. Maybe it's just best to pay cash here?
NOTE: After returning to Benjarong about a dozen times, the credit cards problems have disappeared, so I'm adding a fifth star...
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