My Love for Northern Thai food and this particular restaurant has not changed. This is the best Thai restaurant in STL in terms of quality, service, price, and atmosphere. And this is the deal, I have officially had everything on this menu (many times over). They offer the no wait app, but I don't think that's accurate here. They do not take reservations, but it is so worth the wait or call for take out. Remember it's Northern Thai (lots of Chai Mai specialities) and they don't offer some of the same food as other Thai restaurants (so no drunken wide noodles here). Northern Thai is more sour and milder vs. Southern that is spicier and sweeter. This Thai food feels lighter than other americanized restaurants. And everything on the menu is exceptional.
My Favorites:
1) Chicken Khao Soi: Yellow Curry Soup. This is not your normal curry, but a northern sweet,spicy,savory soup with pickles, and noodles. It doesn't come with many vegetables, so I like to order a side of steamed vegetables to mix it in.
2) Hung Lay Curry: Fantastic palm sugar tender pork. I generally don't eat pork and I make exceptions for this.
3) Chicken Tum Yum Soup: It has the perfect blend of sour and spicy flavors. The hot is really hot here and I generally only get it medium.
The Rest of the Menu
Sides:
1) Som Tum (Refreshing Papaya Salad)
2) Crying Tiger (Beef Sticks): Good, but fav. is the Muu Ping
3) Nam Khao Tod (Crispy Rice Salad): So different and good
4) Beef Naam Tok (Spicy Beef Salad)
5) Crispy Spring Rolls(Vegetarian) - delicious and light here
6) Thai Stix (Crab Stix) - like crab raggoons
7) Hoy Jaw (Fried Dumplngs): pass on this
8) Chicken Sateh (Grilled Chicken Satay) - love the peanut sauce and comes in 4
9) Muu Ping (Pork skewers with palm sugar) - this is delicious with sticky rice
10) Sai Oua (Chiang Mai pork sausage): yes and get it with the Chian Main hot sauce
11) Naam Prik Nuum (Chiang Main hot sauce)
Entrees: You can get any dish with tofu, chicken, shrimp, or beef
1) Pad Kee Mao: Love this with Chicken and spicy. This kind of taste like a better drunken noodle at other thai restaurants
2) Pad Thai: good - but everything else is better.
3) Pad Ka Prao (Stir Fry): Basil, Spicy stir-fry (but get a fried egg to go on your rice!)
4) Khao Pad (Fried Rice): good
5) Green and Red Curry: The Green is better and comes with a lot of bamboo shoots that I love!
And the Thai Ice Tea with evaporated milk is the best with spicy food. I don't like the one with the lime juice. The only bad thing is there is no dessert, but walk down the street to Piccone bakery! read more