Located on Chestnut in Bastrop's most famous food truck courtyard, this place serves all your favorite Thai dishes (except for the soups). We ordered Pad Kee Mao (my favorite Thai noodle dish), Thai Basil Fried Rice, and Green Curry. You can choose your protein (we got chicken for each) and your spice level (1, 2, or 3). We got brave and went with a full-on 3 on two of the dishes. We also shared an appetizer of coconut shrimp, which was very good (and a bit sweet).
They hadn't claimed their Yelp page yet so I encouraged them to do so.
They gave us a pager and we sat at one of the many covered tables to wait for our food. The pager went off in a timely manner. We picked up our food and dived into it. It smelled so good that I took a bite of each dish immediately, before photographing them. I never do that. But I couldn't help myself.
We enjoyed every dish. Two of them were absolutely amazing and will bring us back here for sure. The Thai Basil Fried Rice and Pad Kee Mao were both perfect. In most Thai places, these dishes are good but have unmet potential. Here they nailed them.
Spice Level - When I order a spicy level of 3 on a scale of 1 to 3, I expect my nose to run a bit. Goal achieved. It was delightfully spicy. Perfect for me.
Nitpicks - I am not sure they didn't add some red chilies into the green curry. I didn't sense they 100% of the spiciness came from green chili peppers. Another Thai restaurant in town definitely does the same thing, making the initial recipe mild then controlling the heat levels with the same chilies in each dish (usually red Thai chilies). But green chili loses its distinctive brightness when red chilies are added. (Now you're seeing my passion for Thai cooking come through. All the more reason to appreciate my positive review here.) So when a green curry is ordered "spicy" I like to taste (and ideally see) green chilies in it (jalapeno or any other green chili).
My second nitpick is that we weren't offered chopsticks. We were given one of those little plastic packets with a napkin, plasticware, salt and pepper. And, inevitably, the napkin carries a strong odor of pepper.
It's a food truck in an outdoor food court, not a fancy restaurant. And there are other Thai options in town. But this little food truck will absolutely bring us back. Maybe even tonight! read more