The Blue Mango is not a Thai restaurant and it's not a sushi place either, it does carry some standards from both cuisines, but don't let that fool you into sticking with either one of the other style. The Blue Mango is most capable in it's playful eastern/eastern fusion selections.
Blue Mango serves a full course of fusion appetizers, savory Thai soups, salads, curries and stir-frys and sushi. The special sushi rolls, which are often jarring when served alongside more traditional Japanese fare, pair well with the savory Thai palette.
You won't get anything approaching Thai heat at Blue Mango, but there are chili flakes and chili sauce available along with the soy sauce for your sushi.
They make up for the lack of heat by serving some really excellent garlic dishes. The garlic edamame are savory and rich, definitely don't order them if you're a low fat aficionado, and go great with a cold fizzy Singha at happy hour.
The star of the show is the highly customizable stir fry menu, which gives you several choices for sauce and veggies to be paired with your protein of choice which includes beef, chicken, tofu, prawns, fish, calamari, and lamb, for the more adventurous, and you can choose to pair those with sides of brown, white, or sticky coconut rice, egg friend rice and garlic noodles. For larger groups, try one of the noodle or rice entrees like pad woon sen (slippery silvers) or crab fried rice.
Blue Mango also serves an inspired desert menu and offer a selection of beer and wines, as well as some sake based mixed drinks and iced teas and coffee, Thai style.
Favorite Meal:
Salmon Skin Handroll
Garlic Edamame
Tom Yum Soup
Tamrind Salmon Fillet
Garlic Noodles
Pistachio Gelato
Let me address an unfair gripe that some reviewers seem to have about the portion size. It is true that the dishes at Blue Mango are not as big as dishes in typical family style restaurants, but I think that the management did a good job of meeting the needs of it's clientele who come to shop at nearby stores like Trader Joes, Cost Plus or Target.
Consider a scene which often takes place at family style restaurants: a table of four orders two of the same noodle dish, another orders a plate of stir fried chicken and one orders a family size bowl of hot soup, each diner dutifully picks at the dish in front of him but you can tell that he's getting sick of eating so much of the same thing. Most of it inevitably gets stuffed into doggy bags at the end of the night, probably to find it's final resting place at the back of the refrigerator.
The smaller portions are enough for two to share with another dish or an appetizer, but also small enough for one person to eat with rice or another side. That means even small groups (which this restaurant mainly caters to) can get a well balanced mean with enough variety in foods to satisfy for hours after the meal is over. read more