Thai Food and Cooking

Pa-Ord Noodle Opens a Second Location: Different Scenery, Same Spicy Food

Rejoice, Hollywood eaters: There's a new Pa-Ord Noodle around the corner. Formerly, the Thai noodle house could only be found in a strip mall off of Sunset Boulevard in East Hollywood. The dated decor and spicy noodles have now thankfully made their way west, in the form of a second location at Suns ... More >>

5 Essential Thai Restaurants in Los Angeles

Our 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants issue came out recently, and we're highlighting a few categories drawing from the list. Today: Thai restaurants. This is not a definitive list of the best Thai restaurants in L.A., but it is a sampling of five that we think are each essential in their own way.

Bar Report: Thai Town's Darabar Has a Scotch-Tastic Secret

When you think of bottle service, you probably think of overpriced liquor, right? Nightclubs that mark up bottles of vodka to ungodly levels -- 900 percent isn't uncommon -- which are an essential fixture in parts of Hollywood and Beverly Hills, where most of the "actual cost" of the booze goes towa ... More >>

92: Thai Boat Noodles at Pa-Ord

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 92: Thai Boat Noodles at Pa-Ord. You ask a friend with a reputation for never traveling beyond Sepulveda if she wants to join you for Thai food. She tells you, ... More >>

Asian Lanka: Finding Sri Lanka's Culinary Identity

Taric, a Sri Lankan immigrant and a regular at Asian Lanka Restaurant in Reseda, is one of those gregarious strangers who can trigger hunger pangs when he speaks to you about food while you wait in line to order. Ingredients and cooking methods leap off his tongue. Even if you're uninterested in the ... More >>

Planet Dailies and Mixology101 Opens Today A Recipe for the Spicy Fifty

You've shopped the Grove till your brain can't tell boots from a bra. You've pushed your way through the Original Farmers Market too. Let's face it. You need a drink. Starting today, you can get it at Planet Dailies and Mixology101. You'll climb a long flight of stairs (let's hope you don't have ... More >>

Cookbook of the Week: Poulet, When All You Want Is An Honest Chicken A One Pot Coconut Chicken Recipe

amazon​Holiday goose, turkey, duck. All great, but in another week or two, and we'll be happy to get back to that tried-and-true weeknight chicken. Good thing in Poulet: More than 50 Remarkable Meals that Exalt the Honest Chicken there is plenty of interesting poultry recipe fodder for anyone ... More >>

Cheap Eats: 3 Thai Town Lunch Specials

Kathy A. McDonaldWat Dong Moon Lek's lunch set ​ Experience has taught us that there's no such thing as a free lunch -- and the almost free, cheap eats version often verges on inedible. However, in L.A.'s Thai town and Hollywood's eastern edge you can find some lunch plates that defy economics ... More >>

Apocalypse Food Review: Pad Thai

After batting 0 for 2 in our series of Apocalypse Food Reviews thanks to a "mocha mousse pie" that was more like weak, gelatinated hot chocolate and huevos rancheros that were a hot soupy mess, we had to give Backpacker's Pantry one last chance. After all, we want to believe there's someone in the ... More >>

Bloodlust and Beauty: Nam Prik Ong at Spicy BBQ

Matthew K./YelpNam Prik Ong, Spicy BBQ​ If Jitlada, despite its massive, unknowable menu and maddeningly languorous pace during peak hours, remains the standard by which other Southern Thai establishments are judged, our pick for Northern Thai is Spicy BBQ. Her hair bound in a kerchief, Nong, ... More >>

And Now for Something Completely Different: Fried Chicken

D. Gonzalez Samusas at Jasmine Market​ When it comes to dining in Los Angeles, there are can be paths of predictability. Depending on the craving, there are areas where nearly every other restaurant is a safe bet and others where we should have known better. But then there is fried chicken, ... More >>

Quick Bite: Sai Krok Isaan (Sour Sausage) at Night Market

Guzzle & NoshSai Krok Isaan sausage at Night Market in West Hollywood.​A splash of hot sauce. A sprinkling of crushed peanuts. A prisoner stabbing his cellmate to death. Which of these doesn't go well with pad thai? Opened in early December, Night Market is the more "adventurous," more st ... More >>

Best Clam Chowder: Roy Choi's Bowl at A-Frame

N. GalutenA-Frame's clam chowder​ If you've spent any time at all on the East Coast, you will have had the obligatory bowl of clam chowder. Lots of them, really. And whether you're in the New England camp or the Manhattan camp, you will have had many bowls of truly awful clam chowder. As some ... More >>

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Daisy Mint aims to please all lovers of Asian food

Night Market Opens: Brings Thai Street Food to Sunset Boulevard

C. LeVasserOwner/chef Kris Yenbamroong inside Night Market​ Last Thursday, Night Market, from owner and chef Kris Yenbamroong, debuted on Sunset Boulevard. The space is attached to longstanding Thai restaurant Talésai, where Yenbamroong is also owner and chef. Now, Yenbamroong is essentia ... More >>

Jet Tila to teach Asian Food at Breadbar A Recipe for Thai Roasted Chicken

B. HansenJet Tila in Thailand​L.A.'s popular Thai/pan Asian chef Jet Tila is coming back to town to conduct a workshop on "Flavors of Southeast Asia" Oct. 17 at Breadbar West Third. Tila will show how to make crispy shrimp cakes with plum sauce and cucumber salad, pineapple red curry, Thai ... More >>

Squid Ink Food Fight: Currying Flavor, Thai Red Curry with Beef

Curry can mean many things, its contents and flavors capable of splitting off into innumerable directions. Two Indian vegetable curries from two restaurants on the same block can vary greatly, so imagine the differences between a Pakistani tikka karahi and a pork katsu curry from Osaka? In many case ... More >>

Cheap Sweets: Pandan Chiffon

Ben CalderwoodWedges of tinted pandan cake​Countless tax brackets away from the lurid temptations of Jamon Ibérico de Bellota, you will find this slice of minor Asian exotica: pandan chiffon cake. The pale ivy hue comes from pandan leaf, also called screwpine, a tropical shrub cultivated acro ... More >>

California Vegan: Inclusivity Over Authenticity

Ben CalderwoodPepper steak with veggies and brown rice​ California Vegan is workingman's Thai cuisine, if such a thing exists, and if working men slurped glass noodles with fake fish and kombucha for lunch, rather than carne al pastor from the taco truck across the street. You will not find th ... More >>

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When in Thai Town, do as Carl Stone does — eat fire

New Year's Is Coming; This Time It's Thai

Barbara HansenThe Thai Town Songkran festival draws a crowd​New Year's Day is coming for the third time this year. January 1 revelry in the West had no sooner died down than decorations began to go up for Chinese New Year February 14. Next on the calendar is the Thai new year, Songkran, April ... More >>

Top 10 Things to Eat at the Hollywood Farmers' Market

There's nothing like noshing on samples at the farmers' market. But sadly apple slices on toothpicks, a sample of tangerine, and a sip of freshly squeezed pomegranate juice does not exactly make a full meal. Luckily, our favorite farmers' markets have more than enough choices of ready-made items to ... More >>

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Another week in the life of Jonathan Gold's belly

Ask Mr. Gold: Northern Comfort. In Winter, Khao Soi Hits the Spot

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I just returned from a trip to Southeast Asia, and while in northern Thailand, I discovered the yellow noodle dish with chicken in curry and coconut milk, known as khao soi. It's the perfect winter comfort food (spicy and cr ... More >>

Wazuzu Chef Jet Tila Craves a Vegas Version of Thai Town

Jenn GarbeePlenty of Donuts in Vegas for Tila​The sprawling 27-foot-long Swarovski crystal dragon writhing across the dining room wall at Wazuzu, the pan-Asian restaurant in Steve Wynn's recently opened Encore Las Vegas hotel, appears rather famished. Jet Tila, the restaurant's 33-year-old exe ... More >>

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