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| - When one is denied gnocchi, one makes do with massuman curry...
THE SCENE:
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Mr. K reads on Yelp sometime this pm, "EVERYONE! PASTA BAR IS OPEN!"
"Holy ish!" he thinks. "Finally!"
Mr. K doesn't think any further. He takes action.
* Zing! *
Mr. K shows up downtown in his Batmobile. He is ready. And hungry.
And....walks up to the place next door to Sens which looks like some cool-looking bar/restaurant, but nowhere near ready to open.
Mr. K feels punked (and now pissed at himself that he didn't bother walking further down the hallway, even thought he thought, "Huh, I wonder what's down the hallway...")
Never mind pasta now. Mr. K is irate and starving. And decides it's time to finally hit Thai Hut.
Mr. K parks at a far spot on Walgreen's lot (even though he knows he shouldn't) because he needed to head to Burton-Barr after. He marches towards Thai Hut with conviction, but then he walks through the Cancer Survivor sculpture garden and gets distracted, takes out his camera, and lies down on the sidewalk trying to get a good angle at some of the pieces. Patrons within Thai Hut are staring at him, as if he is mad. And maybe he is. Who knows.
20 minutes elapse. Mr. K realizes his stomach is growling. "Eat, you bastard!" it says. And so Mr. K puts his cameras away and heads towards Thai Hut and opens the door....
* Boom! *
"And Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii will always love youuuuuohhhhhandaiiiiiiiii will always looove youuuuuuuuu..."
Seriously. That's what Mr.K hears the moment he sets his foot in.
Mr. K observes the scene before him. It is an obvious former diner, as if it was inherited from that 70's sitcom "Alice". But now with random Thai bits here and there, including the obligatory "Thailand" tourism poster. No pictures of the King and Queen though. Hmm....
Whitney has now disappeared and it's "Heart & Soul" by T'Pau Apparently they've got the station on Lite Rock/"The Quiet Storm"/Adult Soft Hits or something. I get it.
Friendly hostess seats me at a booth and it's onto the food...
THE FOOD:
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It's late lunchtime, and there is obvious hunger. But how much is too much for one guy? What the hey. Mr. K was denied pasta. He deserves to be consoled by an appetizer.
"Chicken satay and beef massuman curry, Thai spicy please."
Verdict:
The chicken satay itself was pretty good, but the peanut sauce and the cucumber salad were missing a little something. Mr. K doesn't know what. What's Thai for "oomph?" The dish was served nicely, though.
* Break between appetizer and entree blesses the establishment with the sounds of Jon Secada ("Just Another Day"), Christopher Cross ("Arthur's Theme - The Best That You Can Do"), and then it's onto a CD with some favorite Thai pop hits! *
So...the beef massuman curry. Presented nicely in a bowl and looked appetizing, although the mound of rice just sitting by itself in the middle of a large plate was a tad odd. No worries. Because hunger trumps aesthetics. Unfortunately, the curry didn't have the heat that was expected (Mr. K sad face), but with a bit of dried chili flakes and chopped Thai green chilis, a solution. Yes. The curry was still tasty and very generous in its portion size: the amount of beef, peanuts, potatoes, etc. Mr. K initially thought half of the dish was going to be dinner, but he ate the whole thing,
* As meal ends, CD goes back to radio, for Peter Cetera's "The Glory of Love". Mr. K ponders doing The Crane in his booth *
Both dishes together come up to around $19-something with tax. A too-yellow fortune cookie accompanies the bill. Mr. K loves eating fortune cookies but this looks slightly radioactive. Ignore.
SERVICE:
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Surprised at all the complaints about bad service. Maybe the Thai Hutters read Yelp, because Mr. K was treated like a Bollywood superstar.
Ok, maybe more like a key grip, but they were still very friendly and efficient.
SO MR. K DIDN'T HAVE PASTABAR. HOW DOES HE FEEL NOW?:
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Pasta shmasta. That can wait. He definitely doesn't feel lunch was squandered. Thai Hut would rank somewhere in the middle of the Thai joints he's been to in Phoenix (and in the immediate vicinity, it was better than Wild Thaiger but a step below Thai Elephant).
WOULD HE EAT THERE AGAIN?
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Sure. He definitely wouldn't avoid it.
ANYTHING ELSE?
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Had Thai Hut been just south of I-10, it would be in the perfect location to be the casual late night Thai restaurant so many people have been craving for. Or maybe what Mr. K is craving for. Heck, even at their current location, if they stayed open til midnight (or 2 am on weekends) and enough people knew about it, they could be doing really well for themselves.
As for Pastabar, Mr. K thanks it for being hidden from plain view and not open at lunch anyway.
For today was the day Whitney gave him a grand entrance, and "More Than Words" fluttered in the air as he left.
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