Treasure Map in a Plastic Sleeve

And then there was the dish we could smell from 10 feet away: Chinese broccoli with salted fish. Those grey-beige chunks of fish smelled almost painfully pungent, until you picked up a ball of sticky rice and used it to grab some broccoli and fish—and the odor transformed into a massive wave of umami, deep and meaty. "This is poor-people food," the waiter kept telling us as we greedily sopped up the last of the gray fish liquid. "Some days, you only eat one meal: rice, some vegetables, and a bit of salted fish. There's a saying that you should not try to kiss a girl after eating it."

But I'd say what we dined on was a meal for kings. 

Peter Mumford

Thai Palms’ Lao chicken larb.

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Thai Palms

6715 Martin Luther King Jr Way S.
Seattle, WA 98118

Category: Restaurant > Asian

Region: Rainier Valley

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THAI PALMS 6715 Martin Luther King Jr. Way S., 721-7777. Open for lunch and dinner seven days a week.

Price Check
  Thai sausage $6.99
  Beef jerky $6.99
  Barbecued chicken $8.99
  Chicken larb $6.99
  Kang som $7.99
  Chinese broccoli with salted fish $8.99
  Pad thai (must try!!) $6.99
 

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