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.