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Thai Food and Cooking

  • Food

    May 23, 2012

    Brendan Ryan: Thai Goes to the Runner

    The Mariner shortstop explains his peculiar love of panang curry.

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    Mariners Shortstop Explains His Panang Curry Obsession

    With the Seattle Mariners having lost more than half of their games, it's no wonder the club wants its fans to look at something other than batting averages and slugging percentages when scanning the scoreboard. As a player steps up to the plate at Safeco, the center field Jumbotron displays his pic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    Little Uncle Snackage: Green Mango with Chili, Salt, Sugar Dip

    Yesterday, Little Uncle's chef and co-owner Wiley Frank recounted the trial and errors he went through with wife and co-owner Poncharee Kounpungchart ("PK") in their efforts to bring their favorite Thai dishes to Seattle. Today, he introduces a no-brainer Thai recipe, a sour green mango with a chil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Thai Palms Noodles Are a No-No

    Dish: Pad Thai Place: Thai Palms, Rainier Valley Price: $6.99 On the plate: Per the menu: "Thai noodles mixed with ground peanuts, onion and bean sprouts." There's also lots of shredded carrot and purple cabbage, and my meat choice of pork. Supporting cast/What to do: No supporting cast, and some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2011

    Save a Seat at Savatdee

    ​Savatdee, housed in what used to be the Blue Onion Bistro and before that an old gas station, offers both Lao and Thai cuisine. After six years, Savatdee hasn't lost its gas station look, but there is something pleasant about walking into a restaurant with a nondescript exterior, only to be s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    A High-Five For Kaosamai Thai

    The Truck: Kaosamai Thai, found in truck form Monday through Friday at 527 Fairview Ave. N., and Wednesdays at Starbucks headquarters. The Fare: Noodles and curry galore The Stop: It's hard to miss Kaosamai's truck, parked near Fairview and Mercer every week day: it's bright orange (like its moth ... More >>

  • Food

    May 4, 2011

    Eatside: Tongue Thai'd at O'Char

    A Bellevue stalwart transcends Pad Thai.

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Tongue Thai'd at O'Char

    © Siiri Sampson 2011.Note to self: You can always add MORE spice; you can't pick off every pepper flake after the fact.​Pad Thai is an oddity of Americanized food culture (along with pho, burritos, and cappuccinos). Every Thai restaurant, highbrow or hole-in-the-wall, seems to offer it, so it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Diners Reap Rewards Of Lark's Sous Chef's Trip To Thailand

    Photo by Leslie KellyShophouse is a family affair, with Wiley Frank and his wife, Poncharee Kounpungchart, sharing kitchen duties.​Wiley Frank and his wife Poncharee Kounpungchart (PK) spend Mondays cooking down-home Thai food at Licorous, dishes that reflect their inspirational year living in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    A Second Serving of Tron

    Walt Disney StudiosWilde as the cyber-dream of every 12-year-old boy gamer.​The Dinner: Chicken Pad Thai at Jamjuree (509 15th Ave E.). The Movie: Tron: Legacy at Thornton Place (301 N.E. 103rd St.). The Screenplate: Did Thai food even exist in 1982? I mean the U.S.-imported, ubiquitous food ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    Friday Food Porn: Amalgamation Nation

    Photo courtesy Joshua Huston​ "Fusion cuisine is big. Fusion cuisine is important. Fusion cuisine is smart. Fusion cuisine is gimpy and obtuse and lazy and ridiculous--gastronomy 101 for the over-educated, travel-sick and hopelessly romantic white jacket--and a sin like blasphemy against the ... More >>

  • Food

    October 27, 2010

    Fusion Is Wrong, But Pinto Gets It Right

    Finding the upside of drunken food sex.

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    Going International at Pinto Thai Bistro and Sushi Bar

    I really wish I knew what that was supposed to be a picture of.​"At Pinto Thai Bistro and Sushi Bar, the fusion starts with the name, goes crazy on the floor, and ends only a night later, with me standing front-lit and chilled before the refrigerator eating the last of the leftovers right out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    Half-Crazy Fusion at Pinto Thai Bistro and Sushi Bar

    ​We spoke (briefly) about the opening of the new(ish) Pinto Thai Bistro and Sushi Bar back in August, right around the time the place was opening up at 408 Broadway East. There was a quick note about the address, an even quicker mention of the fact that it was doing a combination of Thai food ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    I Am Sweet and Sour

    Noodle Land in Redmond, from the inside​"'Crying Tiger,' my wife, Laura, said, running her finger down the menu at Noodle Land in Redmond. 'That is so fucking awesome,' I replied. If I had a straight 80's style glam-rock band, our first power ballad--track six on our very first album--would ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Bai Tong, Redux

    Photo courtesy Peter Mumford​ Yesterday, I got to share the good news that Bai Tong--the fantastic historical oddity and awesome Thai food joint buried in a Tukwila strip mall--had expanded into a second location while I wasn't looking. "According to the Bai Tong Facebook page (yeah, I'm sur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Bai Tong Opens a New Location

    Photo courtesy Peter Mumford​ "I wish I had a time machine," I wrote in my review of Bai Tong back in March. "Not for the traditional reasons; I have no desire to kill Hitler or stop JFK's assassination. I've read enough bad science fiction to know that those things never work out as well as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    At Naam Thai, the Wider the Noodle, the Better It Tastes

    I will kill this cuddly puppy if you don't eat at Naam Thai (picture may not resemble actual puppy killed).​Allow me to illustrate how many Thai restaurants there are in Seattle with a fun-filled factoid of the type you might find printed on a kid's place mat at Denny's. I'm talking about the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Serving Sake to a Serb: Jamjuree

    Jamjuree lunch combo: rama with tofu pad thai and brown rice​Jamjuree is a popular Thai restaurant on Capitol Hill that come lunchtime, is packed with customers craving cheap but tasty combo plates. Having successfully turned Slavko onto peanut sauce, I decided to introduce him to Jamjuree's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Serving Sake to a Serb: Malay Satay Hut

    Roti Canai​Malay Satay Hut (212 12th Ave S.) is located in a dilapidated strip mall at a busy intersection. It's easy to overlook, but enough people know better than to do that. Before noon, they begin coming in for their fix of Malaysian food, an awesome blend of Indian, Chinese, and Malaysia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Serving Sake to a Serb: May Thai

    ​Slavko has long been forbidden from ordering his favorite dishes at Asian restaurants; fried eggrolls, teriyaki, pad thai. The goal of our weekly adventures, after all, is to expose him to all the other awesome options out there. But it only seemed fair to allow him to return to his comfort ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Ask the Critic: Deconstructing Pad Thai

    American as apple pie, chop suey and California rolls​Earlier, I dealt with one of the comments relating (vaguely) to last week's review of Bai Tong. This week's Ask the Critic inspiration comes from the same place and concerns a question (more of an accusation, really) about my statement that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2010

    Food Porn: Hooked on Bai Tong

    Photo courtesy Peter MumfordThose are just my favorite pants ever​I can tell you all about the food at Bai Tong. And I do, in this week's review. I can talk of curries and pad Thai, run down the twenty-year history of the place, describe the tastes, the textures, the smells. But none of that a ... More >>

  • Food

    March 24, 2010

    Stealing Bites and Shunning Pad Thai at Tukwila's Bai Tong

    This is your brain on moo dade deaw.

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Mind-Altering Meals at Bai Tong

    Photo courtesy Peter Mumford​There are restaurants that are like narrowing funnels of options, and there are restaurants that are like widening cones of potential experience. At the former, the chef, the crew or the kitchen is known for doing one or two things really well, and once you have th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Dinner & a Movie: Here and in Zombieland, a Little Patience Pays Off

    The Dinner: Fresh spring rolls, Thai iced tea, and a very spicy phad kee mao with tofu (Thai Bistro, 18336 Aurora Avenue North, Shoreline) The Movie: Zombieland at Landmark Cinema Crest Theater (16505 5th Avenue Northeast, Shoreline) The Screenplate: When there's a movie hitting theaters that you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    Thin Wheat Line: Pad See Ew

    ​Thin Wheat Line is a weekly survey of noodles around Seattle. Noodle: Pad See Ew with Chicken Source: New's Noodles, 8576 Greenwood Ave. N., 784-2234. As far as Thai noodles rank in the public imagination, pad see ew doesn't have the cachet that pad thai does. In fact, pad see ew's Faceboo ... More >>

  • Food

    April 15, 2009

    Seattle’s Best Examples of a Thai Cliché

    We’re not lacking for options.

  • Food

    January 14, 2009

    Treasure Map in a Plastic Sleeve

    For delicious Lao dishes, seek out the secret menu at Thai Palms.

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2007

    Thai Curry Heaven

    For delicious Lao dishes, seek out the secret menu at Thai Palms.

  • Music

    October 24, 2007

    A Cure for the Common Pabst

    Drink only one if you suffer from a heart condition.

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2007

    The Food Section: September 19, 2007

    Drink only one if you suffer from a heart condition.

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2007

    Stuck in Fremont? Chillies Paste

    Drink only one if you suffer from a heart condition.

  • Calendar

    September 5, 2007

    Wok This Way

    A street-side lesson at the Market

  • Food

    June 27, 2007

    Veggie Thai at In the Bowl and Jhanjay Is Authentically Seattle

    A street-side lesson at the Market

  • Food

    November 16, 2005

    Fresh Spin

    Ambition, atmosphere, and excellent ingredients give new Thai joint an edge.

  • Food

    March 23, 2005

    Wrong Is Right

    North Aurora Thai place breaks the mold.

  • Food

    January 19, 2005

    Not So Cool After All?

    North Aurora Thai place breaks the mold.

  • Food

    January 5, 2005

    Tsunami Relief in Restaurants and Clubs

    North Aurora Thai place breaks the mold.

  • Food

    October 13, 2004

    Genuine Ties

    A regal new Wallingford restaurant brings Thailand to Seattle—literally.

  • Food

    September 15, 2004

    QA Thai 2

    Orrapin offers 'urban taste' where noodles once ruled.

  • Diversions

    August 4, 2004

    Best Dinner Theater

    FOOD & DRINK

  • Food

    February 11, 2004

    Fusion From Afar

    Jasmine brings Thai and Moroccan cuisines to Pike Place Market.

  • Food

    November 12, 2003

    Missing Link

    Phuket takes the middle road less traveled.

  • Food

    December 4, 2002

    Not Thai, But Close

    A new Laotian place on Broadway dishes up a different Southeast Asian cuisine.

  • Food

    August 21, 2002

    Thai Convergence

    Testing peanut sauce, Panang, and phad see iew at four of the many, many Thai places in Fremont.

  • Food

    July 31, 2002

    Fly With the Fiery Bird

    The only thing wrong with Racha is timid customers.

  • Food

    January 17, 2001

    Wild weather

    A Portland-based Thai chain storms into a familiar space.

  • Food

    December 1, 1999

    Fish Recipes

    A Portland-based Thai chain storms into a familiar space.

  • Food

    February 25, 1998

    Fit to be Thai

    A Portland-based Thai chain storms into a familiar space.

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