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| - The real fun for us was experiencing Thai food in Canada vs. the U.S. and getting dishes with ingredients different than what American Thai places feature, like tapioca noodles and Thai sausage. That said, none of the four dishes we ordered was really a knockout. The gyoza, fried dumplings with a ground pork filling, had a very good tasty filling and were nicely fried; but were still just a basic fried Asian appetizer. The larb, a Thai chicken salad, was just too intense, both spice-wise (two warning peppers on the menu) and also with the level of sourness and herbs. The shrimp fried rice was a nice, thick, sticky rice dish, but not a dish to stand on its own; and the soup, featuring soft-boiled egg, tapioca noodles, Chinese greens and "Thai sausage," was a tasty Cantonese-style soup, but bland for Thai food. The "Thai sausage" didn't seem to me to be anything more than meatballs made of ground chicken. We were lucky to be seated on a busy Saturday night, and the service was harried but apologetic, failing to bring us the second beer we ordered, for example. A fine experience, but I think we could have done better.
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