How the mighty have fallen. Once upon a time Thai Shan Inn was one of the best Thai restos in T.O.
Had dinner on a quiet Tuesday night - at 7:30 we were the only diners. The food was lacking any nuance or subtlety.
Shrimp crackers (greasy) with peanut sauce (watery and insipid) was such a let down.- the old Thai Shan Inn's peanut sauce was worth driving across town for. Mango salad was sickly sweet. Tom ka kai was sickly sweet with only the barest hint of acidity or heat. And so on... everything was just so one note. The last straw was the "Cashew" (chicken with spicy cashews in a black bean sauce) -which was a plate of cheap vegetables in a watery sauce with a couple of straggly bits of chicken and not a single cashew. When we pointed out to the waitress she vanished back into the kitchen and a minute later apologetically put a little saucer of cashews on the table - "they forgot".
This isnt even Toronto standard mediocre Thai food.We won't go back.