I think this is the best thai we've had so far in Germany, and we've tried a pretty good number of…read morethai places! We stopped in for a mid-week lunch, and while it wasn't packed, there were several other tables, and one was speaking thai (always a good sign). Service was friendly, and we had no trouble getting by with our pidgin German. The menu was in both German and English, except for the weekday lunch specials page, which was German-only.
Since we never get to do so, we both went with something off the lunch special list; chicken curry rice for me, pad thai for my wife. Lunch specials come with a bowl of soup and a little dessert as well, in our case a chicken and rice soup to start, and a bowl of tapioca mango balls in sweet milk.
The soup was fantastic; the broth had a nice flavor of chicken, ginger, garlic, and maybe mushroom, and while it was't a huge portion, it was plenty to start the meal and warm up after a chilly morning.
The curry rice was also quite good; cooked well and not soggy or mushy. It had a touch of spice from the sliced green chilis in it, but wasn't spicy per se. The pad thai was what I would refer to as German-style; cooked well and with all the right ingredients, but with a touch of what seems to be tomato paste or ketchup in it that gives it a slight different flavor than what you get in the US. Certainly the best pad thai we've had here, but it does taste different than we're used to.
The tapioca mango balls in sweet milk was a fantastic way to end the meal. I would describe it as a sort of out-of-season mango and sticky rice flavor; the mango tapioca balls were a little chewy like mango and sticky rice, and the sweet milk was just like the sauce that gives over the top. Like the soup, it wasn't an American-sized dessert, but it was plenty to leave you with a sweet taste at the end of the meal, and a damn good reason to come back if we are in Koblenz again!
