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| - A restaurant with an identity crisis can often lead to good things. Mega Ramen serves Japanese, Thai, and Vietnamese dishes. The staff are Thai. I thought the inside was very nice, particularly the beautiful stone table tops. The atmosphere has a very clean and warming feel to it. Even though I was in the mood for Ramen, I decided to go ahead and check out the Thai food.
While waiting for my food, I sipped on a Thai Iced Tea, which was pretty good. It had a subtle coffee flavor to it, and wasn't super sweet. It did get a little watery though, but I enjoyed it. I ordered Crab Rangoon ($5.95) and Pork Rad Nah (7.95).
The Crab Rangoon was a bit it disappointing. It was prepared in the same style that Weera does, long fried sticks of shredded crab goodness, only instead they used imitation crab. The sweet and sour sauce was homemade and yummy. The fried pastry was thin and flaky. The downfall was that fishy imitation crab. After eating about three of them I had enough.
The Rad Nah was quite good compared to a lot of Rad Nahs I have had around town. A lot of Thai places just suck at making this dish. Mega does a decent one. The gravy was spot on, nice and thick and flavorful. The thick noodles were stuck together and layered, and while not the most flavorful, were still very satisfying. The pork was chopped into small bite sized chunks and fried perfectly. My one complaint about this dish was that the Chinese broccoli had the outside skin chopped off. While this exposes the crisp juicy insides of the broccoli and discards any potential bitterness from the skin, it also discards all of the flavor from the Chinese broccoli.
My other disappointment was the dried ground chili powder, which I am beginning to become a snob about after eating the stuff fresh. It had absolutely no heat and very little flavor I dumped two heaping spoon fulls into my Rad Nah and still couldn't taste it. This solidly crafted dish became something bland as I ate. I would really like them to look into using fresh chili peppers.
Overall I liked this restaurant, and I am definitely returning to try the Ramen and hopefully the curries.
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