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| - Somehow, in the last two years of living in this city, I managed to overlook one of the best Thai places in this State. Although I've only been to a handful since moving here, this one is my new go-to place.
A couple of my girlfriends and I came here to celebrate one of their birthdays. This place was about 60% full on a Tuesday night when we got there, which I took to be a pretty good sign. It quickly filled up in the next hour or so.
We ordered: beer, plum wine, green papaya salad, a yellow chicken curry, penang chicken curry and the Evil Jungle Princess dish. That was my choice.
Drinks: They were good Plum wine was a little sweet, but I was expecting that.
Food: For the majority of the dishes, you get to choose to add a protein and also a spice level. We went with a mix of no spice/medium spice.
Green Papaya salad - It's one of my favourite Thai dishes, and they do a superb job here with the balance of flavours. My only complaint was that there was a lot of lettuce used as a filler, but the tangy fish/lime sauce went great with this as well.
Yellow chicken - it's mostly potatoes and chicken. DELICIOUS.
Penang chicken - My family is from Singapore where the cuisine is very similar to Penang, Malaysia, but I couldn't really guess what the Penang curry would taste like. I think there's more depth to the flavours than the yellow curry, and the dish had a richer colour to it. It was really good however, and came with more vegetables than the yellow curry.
Evil Jungle Princess - I had to. Basically, this was a bunch of vegetables cooked in some kind of curry substance that tops a plate of noodles. I forgot there were noodles and also ordered a bowl of rice. For future reference: that bowl of rice is not necessary. This was a really good dish and had a bit more tang to it than the other curries. I really enjoyed that there were a TON of vegetable in this dish. So many in fact that I'm glad I ordered it without a protein.
The servings were large, and we all took food home with us. Fun fact: TSA will look at your leftovers through the x-ray machine and search your bag.
Service: It was great. People were friendly.
I'll be back.
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