Thai food has always have a soft spot on my list of favourite cuisines, whenever we visit the States, we would make a point to visit the Thai Restaurants down south. When I think back, Thai Food has always been popular in the States when Pho was still relatively new to the ethnic food scene in the US of A and to a certain degree similar here in Vancouver, BC.
This is highly recommended by my partner, who found this gem from YELP! We decided to make a day trip to Bellingham and made a stop for lunch here. The dining room was already 80% full when we entered at around 11:30ish, and from the tables, I can already see that the food is very good! Everyone is enjoying their meals and almost everyone asked for a take out containers!! ( as a Yelper, I hope to bring this to everyones' attention; please ask for paper containers and if possible bring your own, so that we will not have to throw away foam / plastic containers in our landfill ).
Anyways, we decided to have 2 dishes to share:
Meal #1 : Phad Thai - Chicken
The National Noodle Dish of Thailand! Their version was done in the most traditional way; with Tamarind juice as the flavouring for the noodles instead of tomato ketchup ( as many places uses ) therefore, the colour of the dish is not red but a light brown colour. I really like this version as the noodles have a more natural tartness then the artificial sourness of using ketchup. The rest of the ingredients are also well balanced with eggs, bean sprouts, green onion, chilli, chicken, fish sauce, tamarind sauce etc. This is one of the best Phad Thai I had for a while, and of course their noodles where done el dente!!
Meal #2 : Krapoa Gai Kai Dow - Minced Chicken with peppers and fried Basil
This is featured as their Signature Dish, and also the reason my partner wanted to bring me here!! This is a very savoury dish with all the ingredients melded together to give you that distinctive Thai flavour!
There is something magical about Thai Food! You can never tell that is the main seasoning they are using? Is it fish sauce, black bean sauce, soy sauce, tamarind sauce, or a mix of all the above!
This signature dish can be included into this category : Magical!!
They serve the minced chicken in the "Magical Sauce" with Jasmine Rice, and I can already find ten ways to have this with: Lettuce Wrap, Taco, Rice Noodles, etc...you get the idea!
Service: Excellent! The young lady that served us was super friendly and also gave us some suggestions regarding the spiciness of the dishes, she also warned us not to over Star, as we can always add more chilli after!! Nice touch!
Finding this high level of Thai Food in Bellingham is a blessing! This will make our short trips down here even more fun!! read more