Thai food - what's your standard order?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always test a new place by ordering Tom Ka gai soup and pad Thai. If they do a hatchet job on those, I usually don't go back.

I have yet to have good pad Thai outside of Thailand. What are your favorite Thai restaurants?

Thai X-ing on Florida is the best in the DC area.

[Anonymous]

Pad Thai
Panang Tofu

[Anonymous]

Ruan Thai in Wheaton/Silver Spring. Pad prim king tofu, green curry chicken, yum watercress, pad Thai shrimp. Yum'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always test a new place by ordering Tom Ka gai soup and pad Thai. If they do a hatchet job on those, I usually don't go back.

I have yet to have good pad Thai outside of Thailand. What are your favorite Thai restaurants?

PP here. I'm checking to see certain things - does it taste like they dumped a bowl of sugar in it? Is it gloppy? Is it hot with no other flavor characteristics? Is it tasteless?

I like Thai Luang in Herndon, and the newish Bangkok Bistro right next to the Ballston Mall is very good too.

[Anonymous]

We used to order from Thai Square on Columbia Pike when we lived in Arlington, but it's been several years now. Usually we get one noodle dish, pad Thai or drunken noodles, and a red curry. I like beef, DH likes chicken so we alternate. But we haven't really found Thai food we like since leaving the DC area.

[Anonymous]

kapow chicken, pad prik king or panang curry.

[Anonymous]

Panang

Drunken noodles with pork

[Anonymous]

I find that Crying Tiger is the only thing that will not send me to certain cardiac arrest. I also like Chicken Tom Ka Gai soup.

[Anonymous]

Panang tofu
Pad Thai
Curry puffs

[Anonymous]

Another Sala Thai fan.

One of my favorites is: MAI FAH--Cellophane noodles sautéed with shrimps, pork, egg, celery, onion, carrots, snow peas and black mushrooms. I could eat it by the truck load.

I also love curries and drunken noodles. And definitely sticky rice and mango for dessert.

Also, in most Thai restaurants if something is indicated as spicy on the menu, it's probably very spicy. So if you have a low threshold ask them to make it mild.

[Anonymous]

To the PP seeking restaurant reservations, Little Serrow lives up to the hype.

For everyday, I like Siam House, which is a hole in the wall in Cleveland Park. I also like Bangkok 54 in Arlington and Nava Thai in Wheaton.