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March 14, 2013Our 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.
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March 14, 2013So there you are in Belarus, supping on beet soup and rye bread, getting all stinky on kvas. The bill comes and you reach for your wallet. To tip or not to tip, you wonder. You try to remember the advice dispensed in your uncreased copy of Lonely Planet: Belarus, but the details are pretty fuzzy ... More >>
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July 26, 2012On these hot, muggy nights when your ambient kitchen temperature rivals that of your oven, we highly recommend whipping up a batch of ice cream for dinner (protein, calcium, fiber if you add fruit). It's also the perfect excuse settle in with a fantastic photography-driven food book like Take Away b ... 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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January 19, 2012Yes, we chose our Cookbook of the Week, Mighty Spice: Fast, Fresh and Vibrant Dishes Using No More than 5 Spices for Each Recipe, in part for the publisher's legal disclaimer (more on that later). It waives them not only from potential recipe disasters but also includes medical warnings (?!). Keep i ... More >>
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October 19, 2011The Hangover Part II / Warner Bros.This shit is real.If your experiences were the basis of one of the chapters of The Hangover franchise, wouldn't you just let it stay in Vegas (or, in this case, Thailand)?
A man who claims that really happened -- to him no less -- is suing the makers of the ... More >>
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July 5, 2011If the cavemen and frogs taught us anything it is that commercials don't have to have much to do with the products they promote. Some wares lend themselves to absurdity more readily than others, particularly those whose nuances are tough to render in just a few seconds of color and sound. Like insu ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
While the rest of us waited in vain for the Rapture, Karina Longworth was busy writing about her own encounter with the end of days. She offers her thoughts on Lars Von Trier's "depression-as-apocalypse epic" Melancholia in her Cannes Film Festival Wrap-Up. Von Trier's movie hasn't made it ... 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 21, 2011Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins
