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| - I am honestly baffled as to what makes this place Laotian. The menu seems pretty solidly Americanized Thai, and the flavors follow suit. Maybe the cook or the owner is Lao? Or maybe they just Americanize the menu for the lunch specials, and lunch is when I went.
Their spice guide is listed from 1-4: timid-Native Lao. I ordered 3 for my catfish/Thai eggplant curry. It was nothing. A hint of heat, perhaps. Order your food at a 4 if you're used to timidly and apprehensively ordering medium in authentic Thai restaurants.
Look, the food was not bad by any means. The fish was tender and boneless, the Thai eggplants were cooked to a soft, skin-peeling pulp, and the potatoes still had a bite to them. The bamboo shoots were, surprisingly, the most flavorful part of the curry, retaining that sour tang that most lose when they're put in a can.
It's just that it was all pretty unmemorable, mostly due to the curry - a nondescript coconutty slurry. And the cucumber salad that came with it literally tasted like plain cucumbers. I was satisfied when I walked out: my stomach was full of healthy, nutritious food. I just wished it had been shaken up a little, too.
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