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hayashi · #36 02-05-2005, 15:23

Watch you tgf cooking your favourite thai food get her to write the ingredients down for them,when you get back to dear old blighty you can cook then your self.

Paddy · #37 02-05-2005, 15:29

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Originally Posted by Mac

Sainsburys is a large supermarket chain here in the UK. I have noticed recently that Singha Beer is now available in my local supermarket and takeway Thai food is available in the "good for you" section!
Mac

Hey Mac - they should put it in the "up to you" section!

One recommendation is for any of the Blue Elephant chain around the world. I've been lucky enough to eat in four of them - London, Paris, Brussels and Dubai. They're expensive but the food and the environment are simply fantastic. Every restaurant comes complete with a carp pond, a bridge and a waterfall! A great place to go for a treat or a special date. At the one in London, on Fulham Broadway, the Thai Embassy staff eat there a lot, which has to be a good sign.

Also in London, there's a restaurant called Nahm, in the Halkin Hotel in Belgravia, which is rated as one of the best Thai restaurants in the world. It's run by an Aussie called David Thompson, who's supposed to be a bit of a Thai cooking guru. It's insanely expensive and some critics say it's pretentious and overrated but I found it really friendly and welcoming and I had an unforgettable dinner - nearly as good as that caff across the road from Tai Pan.

Jaysen · #38 02-05-2005, 17:14

There is a place here in WA called the White Elephant

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Food and surroundings are great and as authentic as possible, and wait people are all thai and serve in traditional thai garments, this adds to the ambience of the restaurant.
Even though the food is great and tasty, majority if not all thai restaurants westernize their food so that it is more appealing to the patron, as predominantly most customers here are not of thai decent. In my opinion, you will never get real thai outside of LOS, simply because of the way it is cooked, ingredients and price.
I love thai food and have been to quite a few places in WA, but none of them will ever rival thai in LOS (IMO), and i can't seem to get decent chilli anywhere here either

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One thing i have noticed, is that Thai food has become quite popular here in WA and probably all over Australia too, with lots of restaurants popping up all over the place, and prices have become quite a bit more expensive due to this, for example Thai Green Curry - $18.70 (650 baht), and Pad Thai- around $15.00 (450 baht).
However at the end of the day it is good to see that more and more people are coming to realize what we guys have known all along

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tintin · #39 02-05-2005, 21:22

[quote=Paddy]Hey Mac - they should put it in the "up to you" section!

One recommendation is for any of the Blue Elephant chain around the world. I've been lucky enough to eat in four of them - London, Paris, Brussels and Dubai. They're expensive but the food and the environment are simply fantastic. Every restaurant comes complete with a carp pond, a bridge and a waterfall! A great place to go for a treat or a special date. At the one in London, on Fulham Broadway, the Thai Embassy staff eat there a lot, which has to be a good sign.

Well I have to disagree on that one!

The first one was established in Belgium. I have also been to the one in Paris...

Indeed nice surrounding, but the 3 times I tried one, the Thai food was quite average! A columnist has been lately to the Brussels one, and they had exactely the same opinion!

The one I am visiting in antwerp tommorow, is not in the best of neighberhoods, the decoration is simple, but the food is uncomparable! Even in Los I hardly get such a good food!

As said before I had a Thai restaurant myself, a bit fancier. I had also a terrific cook, but I have to admit theirs is a bit better still!

Only, when they started, they copied exactely my menu! Even the number of the dishers was exactely the same.

Well for a copycat, I have to admit they done a good job....

beuk · #40 02-05-2005, 21:40

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Originally Posted by tintin

Ha, tommorow I am going two days to Antwerp, I will be eating in my favourite Thai, two nights in a row!

And which one is that TinTin.

tintin · #41 02-05-2005, 23:33

This one :

SEREE-THAI

Van Arteveldestraat 6

2060 Antwerpen tel: 03 226 29 11

I will be there tuesday at 20.00 and also wensday!

Note : This is the neighberhood behind "Chinatown" in Antwerp, between Astridplein and Rooseveltplaats, so not fancy at all, but very friendly!

And believe if you like Thai food it is to die for!

In the past they regular cook had off at wensday, but the 2 nd cook is very good too, but I prefer to go when n° 1 is there!

Not bad, but not so great as this place: Tjoeng Tjoeng, opposite -street, Breydelstraat. Seree thai is much better though!

If ever you are in Antwerp tommorow night, be free to join us! They have singha of course, not sure about Chang!

LivinLOS · #42 03-05-2005, 09:14

I know its a bit further but have you tried 'Sala Thai' In Eindhoven..

As usual a little low on spice levels but very good tastes without fire.. Thier Duck Red Curry (sauce not dry) is superb.

JayBee · #43 03-05-2005, 11:24

If you are ever in San Rafael, CA, I highly recommend Signature Thai on B Street. Great food, and the owner is a great guy. You have to take off your shoes at the door. Now that is a real Thai restaurant!

tintin · #44 03-05-2005, 12:03

Ha Ha there is a Thai restaurant inSt Raphael rivièra too!

Just a chinese man, who called his restaurant le Thai, because that food is getting more popular!

Worse oriental food I ever eat: chinese scam!

JayBee · #45 03-05-2005, 12:07

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Originally Posted by tintin

Ha Ha there is a Thai restaurant inSt Raphael rivièra too!

Just a chinese man, who called his restaurant le Thai, because that food is getting more popular!

Worse oriental food I ever eat: chinese scam!

I once knew a Chinese guy who bought an Italian restaurant. The spaghetti was chow mein with a little watered down tomato paste on it!

Jaysen · #46 03-05-2005, 16:53

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Originally Posted by JayBee

I once knew a Chinese guy who bought an Italian restaurant. The spaghetti was chow mein with a little watered down tomato paste on it!

I've seen a few places like that too!
One word....... Dodgy

beuk · #47 03-05-2005, 22:20

Hehehe last year on holdiay in Spain (Estepona) there was a thai restaurant too. Went there with the wife and kids, so a menu in spanish and english and the english section of the menu wasn`t even correct. So my wife wanted to ask some things about teh food in thai and the only reply we`ve got was. Sorry only cook thai but he`s on a holiday. All the staff was either chinese filipino or vietnamese but not one thai.

Raval · #48 04-05-2005, 04:17

When you are in the east of Holland a very good possibility is "Sawadie , Noorderhagen 20, 7511 EL Enschede" Very simpel, but very tastfull thai food, although the owner is not Thai. I go there a lot. An other in my town is "Siam Thais Restaurant, Pypenstraat 20, 7511 GM Enschede"

Cheers,

Raval