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April 9, 2013Jet Tila has been appointed the first Culinary Ambassador of Thai Cuisine by the Royal Thai Consul-General in Los Angeles, tasked with spreading awareness nationwide and making official his unofficial -- and longstanding -- role as a guide to the cuisine.
Tila was tapped for the position after a m ... More >>
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December 26, 2012Some call it East Hollywood, but many more know it as Thai Town, a glowing, neon causeway of great late-night restaurants, karaoke bars and slingers of Chang beer towers. It's an area of town that not only welcomes after-hours consumption, but glorifes it --- filled with brimming bowls of pungent no ... More >>
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December 13, 2012In Bangkok and barely over jetlag, Night Market chef Kris Yenbamroong of helped his diminutive 81-year-old paternal grandmother, Vilai Yenbamroong, into the back of a white van for what he calls "an epic trip."
Their game plan was to head out of the city up the Friendship Highway through Isaan ( ... More >>
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November 1, 2012This family restaurant in Van Nuys delights with northern Thai dishes — as long as you ask for the special menu
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November 1, 2012In-Chan Thai Cuisine is the subject of this week's restaurant review. Here's a taste of what you can find in the review, as well as a few extra tidbits:
Food: Make sure to ask for the special Northern Thai menu, which isn't given out to most patrons unless specifically asked for. Order of it and yo ... More >>
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August 30, 2012Curtis Stone is, in the words of Derek Zoolander, "really, really, ridiculously good-looking," so not the type, we'd imagine, to get tongue-tied around the ladies. But leave it to hometown girl Dita Von Teese, L.A.'s (and the world's) queen of burlesque to make TV's reigning pin-up boy blush.
Von T ... More >>
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July 17, 2012Feel like eating Thai food? Then cook it yourself -- which isn't as hard as it sounds, because there's a book to help. It's Easy Thai Cooking, by Robert Danhi (Tuttle: $16.95).
Danhi knows the kind of Thai food you like, because he lives here and has eaten his way through Hollywood's Thai Town as w ... More >>
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December 28, 2011Well, yes, Crispy Pork Gang. A restaurant. A Thai restaurant. In that Thai Town strip mall that somebody should have thought of a catchy name for by now, but anyway, the one with Ganda, Ruen Pair and Red Corner Asia in it, and a valet who will stack three cars behind you should you decide that you c ... More >>
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October 20, 2011Kris Yenbamroong mixes Thai with hip
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September 12, 2011Our Venn Food Diagram series so far has hopscotched all over the globe, exploring Indian, Midwest American, and, most recently, Korean foods. As you probably can tell, this series is an organized chaos; our destinations are chosen in no particular order. Today, we randomly focus on Thailand to see ... More >>
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July 28, 2011Barbara Hansenchef McDangRoyalty just left Los Angeles. Now it's coming again. The royal personage arriving this week is chef McDang (real name ML Sirichalerm Svasti) of the Thai royal family.
Not content to rest on regal laurels, McDang has become a culinary celebrity in Thailand, appearing ... More >>
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May 9, 2011B. Hansenairline seating at Captain Thai
Do a little digging, and you'll find that Captain Thai Restaurant in Hollywood offers something far more interesting than its much-talked-about airline décor. The airline look isn't that extensive anyway, just a photo of a vintage plane flying toward ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
B. HansenPad Thai salad at Esaan
If you're standing at the bus stop at 5th and Hope in downtown L.A. and you suddenly get the impression you're in Thailand, not waiting for the 720 to Santa Monica, you're not delusional.
Someone has just opened the door to Esaan, a Taste of Thai, allow ... More >>
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December 13, 2010After last week's masochistic adventures in Korean Bolognese, we figured we deserved some slightly better noodles this week. So we decided to turn our attentions toward Thai Town, and to take a look at pad see ew -- or as most people in the U.S. call it, "those Thai noodles that aren't pad Thai." Pa ... More >>
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September 27, 2010Barbara HansenRama dining roomThe latest addition to West 3rd Street's restaurant row is what has been missing there, a Thai restaurant. Rama, which opened September 1st, isn't just another bare bones neighborhood place with quick, cheap lunch specials. It's so handsome you would go there no ... More >>
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August 16, 2010Barbara HansenFried som tam from It's Thai
What's new in Koreatown? A Thai restaurant, of course. A place called It's Thai, Noodle 'n More has opened in the same block as Ice Kiss and Ham Ji Park barbecue. That's Sixth Street between Kenmore and Catalina, a food hub where you can find anyth ... More >>
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June 24, 2010At Barn Rau, it's Muslim food, home style
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March 17, 2010The owners of a chain of Thai restaurants in the Pacific Northwest say they've been wrongly targeted by activists upset over the serving of whale meat: Apparently the eateries are in the cross-hairs of animal lovers because they happen to have the same name as the parent company of the Santa ... More >>
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September 4, 2008Bobcat Bites to Morning Glory
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May 29, 2008Nam prik oom, the bountiful mantra of northern-Thai cuisine
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August 16, 2007Jitlada Thai is reborn with a southern soul
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May 17, 2007Karaoke and Khmer flavors at Battambang
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August 24, 2006Sri Siam’s hidden treasures
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December 7, 2000Music to the eyes, and mouth
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February 17, 2000A Guide to Our Advertisers, part two
Edited by Lovell Estell III
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July 22, 1999A Guide to Our Advertisers Part Two
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February 18, 1999A guide to our advertisers
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July 9, 1998A different kind of dessert in Hollywood
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May 7, 1998A Hollywood restaurant with roots on Vermont
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March 19, 1998Thai frog legs in Hollywood
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February 19, 1998A guide to our restaurant advertisers
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