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| - I ate here this past Sunday afternoon with my girlfriend and her parents for lunch. My girlfriend and I have walked by this place many times in the past but had kept it on our list of places to try. We arrived here at about 11:15 or so and the place was completely empty. As a matter of a fact after we seated what looked like a fresh cut flower was placed on every table except for ours, presumably not to interrupt us. It was then that I noticed the beautiful bouquets of fresh flowers by the door. Other than the flower though, the place seemed fairly plain. After we were seated, we were given menus opened to the lunch special page. What I liked about it is that they had about 20 or so choices that all cost exactly the same depending on the type of meat that you were getting and only one item on the lunch menu cost more than the rest. Since I normally eat the same thing at every Thai place, I decided to switch it up and went with the beef Jungle Curry at a spice level 10 out of 10. It was a non coconut based curry with eggplant, bamboo, baby corn, bell pepper, carrot and a side of rice. We also decided to have the fish cakes and crab wontons appetizer. The appetizer came out first and was pretty good. The crab wontons had a good savory filling and were much more delicate than I expected and paired nicely with the sweet and sour sauce. Meanwhile the fish cakes were not what I was expecting as they sort of looked, felt and tasted like sausage but were still good. As a nice surprise our lunch specials were also served with soup which none of us had noticed on the menu. The soup was a light broth with some carrots, other vegetables and tofu in it and carried and had a very pleasing heat and the finish. Finally my Jungle curry was very good. The spice level was prefect and I also thought that most of the flavors were good as well.
The bottom line for me is that I would definitely head back here again in the future. All of the food that I tried was good, they put a good amount of spice in my food and I thought that the lunch specials were very affordable and fair for what you got.
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