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| - In celebration of a friend's birthday, I was invited out to Sukho Thai, the elder sister of Khao San Road. Being thirty minutes late (I know, my bad), I hustled my way around Little Portugal looking for the restaurant with the big elephant. A stranger from a far kindly pointed me towards the restaurant and claimed it was the best Thai restaurant he's ever been to. Quite skeptical, I deemed it as an overstatement.
The interior was covered with plenty of dark wood, intimate lighting and a rustic vibe. For a party of 20, we were all scattered around at different tables, as it was a fairly petite restaurant. Although this might not hold true for their other two locations.
Sukho Thai specializes in Northern Thai cuisine. Every dish brought to the table was full of pungent flavours, a kick of real heat and a comforting texture that surely succeeded in hitting many high notes on my taste buds. I ordered the Khao Soi and Gaeng Panang curry. It was funny because all their dishes have authentic Thai names so as we were asking each other what we ordered, we spewed out names we could barely pronounce. Luckily a precise description of each dish was described on the menu.
The Khao Soi was listed as one of Sukho Thai's specialty. It was a bowl of yellow al dente noodles submerged in a thick and creamy curry gravy splattered in coconut milk and chili oil with cubes of beef mixed throughout topped with deep fried crispy noodles. It was a dish packed with exotic flavours, tolerable heat and a combination of chewy and crunchy textures. I was so in love with the thick curry sauce, I ordered a second bowl of jasmine rice to make sure every bit of that sauce was devoured. It was truly a soul warming bowl of curry, perfect for a cold winter night.
The second dish I ordered was the Gaeng Panang Curry. It was a plate of panang curry (a type of mild curry in Thailand), kaffir lime leaves, basil leaves, red and green peppers cooked with coconut milk and chicken. This curry is unlike any Thai curry I've had before. It's very fragrant in smell, rich in flavours, more savoury than sweet and absolutely delightful with a bowl of jasmine rice.
With all their dishes, you have the choice of different proteins such as beef, chicken and tofu and different levels of heat ranging from mild, medium, spicy and Thai spicy. For both of my dishes, I asked for spicy and I would say it was a considerable amount of heat given my strong tolerance for spiciness. Portions were on the smaller side but I was caveman hungry so that could just be biased.
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