Restaurants in Ottawa - Nokham Thai Restaurant (recommendable)

After trying many Thai restaurants - this is my favourite.

The starters: chicken satay, Nokham spring rolls were all very taste. An especially flavourful dish was the Pad Ped Nor Mai which is served in a pineapple. The Gaeng Caree Gai is one of my favourite dishes (yellow curry with coconut milk and potatoes), however, I believe that the Pad Ped Nor Mai has much more complexity. I also like the egg that they mix into the sauce.

The main dishes cost around $13 which is a reasonable price for what it is. The only thing is that the restaurant is not located close to the centre and therefore you need a car/taxi.

Nokham Thai Restaurant

747 Richmond Road

Ottawa, ON K2A0G6

Tel. 613-724-6620

Restaurants New York - SEA

This is an extremely cheap Thai Restaurant in the middle of the Meatpacking district.

I had a pad thai which tasted ok.

Most main dishes were $10 which is very cheap for this area.

SEA

835 Washington

New York

NY 10014

Tel. 212 243 3339

www.seathainyc.com

Restaurants New York - Chai Home Kitchen

I have not been to Brooklyn for a long time. It is a great vibrant part of New York with lots of bars and restaurants.

We tried the crispy duck rolls $4, satay $5, yellow curry $8 and Massaman curry $8. Generally the food was good, except the yellow curry was completely different than the taste I expected, so I was not such a fan. We had a great waiter.

Restaurants Quebec - Aspara

This is a restaurant in the old town part of Quebec that has cambodian, vietnamese and thai specialities. It is a nice change from the touristy places in the centre.

The place is decorated like a living room that has asian and french influence.

The food was tasty and good value for money. Main dishes cost around 24 CAD.

71 rue D'Aauteuil

Quebec G1R 4C3

418 694 0232

www.restaurantaspara.com

Restaurants Vienna - Kimchi Restaurant

This is a restaurant a little bit off the beaten track in the 3 district of Vienna. I think it is not worth making a trip there for Thai food, but if you are in the area, you can go there and have average Thai, Japanese or Korean food.

Pad Thai costs 9,20 Euros and Spring-rolls 3,50 Euros. Service is fine.

Kimchi

Seidlgasse 19

A-1030 Vienna

Restaurants San Francisco - Benjarong Thai Cuisine (recommendable)

This is a charming little Thai Restaurant on Lombard street. If you are in the area it is a nice place to go to. I do not know why it is quite an empty place because it is a good restaurant.

We tried the yellow curry with sticky rice, pumpkin curry, and a shrimp fried rice. The main dishes with rice were around 12 USD per person, so good value for money.

Benjarong Thai Cuisine

1968 Lombard Street

San Francisco

CA 94123

Tel. (415) 441 8999

www.benjarongsf.com

Restaurants Washington DC - Kanlaya Thai Cuisine

This is a simple, but good Thai restaurant in China town.

Apart from the waiter that was a little spaced out and brought the wrong dishes, the food was ok. The Panang curry, which is a red curry was a little bit spicy but had nice flavours. The shrimps with a yellow curry sauce was everyone's favourite! The chicken with cashew nuts was alright, but it tasted a little more like greasy spoon chinese (simple sauce thickened with corn starch).

The food is not very expensive. The main dishes are around $10 including rice.

The desert: sticky rice with mango was a nice way to finish off the meal on a sweet note.

Kanlaya Thai Cuisine

740 6th Street NW

Washington DC 20001

www.kanlayathaicuisine.com

Restaurants Washington DC - Rice

Washington DC is a beautiful city with a good variety of Restaurants. The weather was very mild (everything is relative - comparing to Canada it is), especially this year and therefore it was possible to sit outside and enjoy ones food in mid November!

Rice is a nice little place in a very trendy area of Washington DC (near Logan Circle). The food is simple Thai food in a pleasant setting.

It is advisable to go there before 20:00 or make a reservation because after 20:00 it gets very full. For some it may become a little loud after a while due to the acoustics there. The food comes very quickly and the waiters bring the check at the same speed without asking if one wants anything else. So my impression was that it is perhaps not a place for a long chat or extensive dinner.

The main dishes cost around $16 each which is reasonable value for money.

Rice
1608 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009

Tel. 202-234-2400n

www.simplyhomedc.com

Coriander Thai Cuisine

Till now this is my favourite Thai restaurant in Ottawa. This is the fourth Thai place we have tried. The yellow curry with potatoes is delicious. It is a mild dish with lots of different flavours. Simple, but great!

It is a small place with simple decor. They try hard to please the customers.

We paid around 14 CAD for the main dishes, which I believe is good value for money.

282 Kent St

Ottawa K2P 2A4

Canada

Tel (613) 233 2828

Restaurants London - Busaba Eathai (recommendable)

This is a great thai restaurant in London. It is simple and quick. The only thing is they do not take reservations, so there is always a little wait. Do not be put off by the queues though, they move quite quickly.

It is a tiny bit loud, so not for a romantic dinner, but fun for a night out with friends.

I like the following dishes and drinks:

-Jasmine smoothie (passion fruit, banana, orange, natural joghurt and jasmine) £3

-Aromatic butternut pumpkin curry with cucumber relish £7.50

-Coconut rice £2.70

106-110 Wardour St., London

+44 207 255 8686

www.busaba.com

Restaurants Ottawa - Khao Thai

Yup that is right Ottawa! Well since the culinary scene is perhaps not as competitive or big, I will try and not be harsh, but rather try and compare restaurants locally. I will not compare them with restaurants in Chicago. All my quotes for Canada will be in Canadian Dollars, sorry for those who are looking at this from abroad. But it is quite easy to convert since currently it is approximately equal to the USD.

We had a dinner special $17.95 (fried shrimps with green beans, rice and a tom ka gai soup) and the Gaeng Karee Gai (yellow chicken curry with potatoes) $10.95, as well as some stick rice.

I would say it was a pretty good curry. The potato tasted unusual, but I am not yet sure if it is the flavour of the potatoes in Canada which is completely different or just this place. It is hard to describe but I wont get hung up on that - it is a detail. I particularly liked that the green beans which were crunchy.

Service & Atmosphere: I would say pretty standard. (For those who are used to eating out late, be careful in Ottawa, in some restaurants the last order is at 21:00!!)

103 Murray Street

Ottawa, ON K1N 5M5

Tel 613-241-7276.

www.khaothai.ca

Restaurants Cancun Mexico - Thai (recommendable)

I think this is one of the best places to go if you are in Cancun and not such a fan of the American Restaurant chains and you are looking for something a little different. Even though it is in the middle of a large shopping plaza, it does not feel like it at all. You can have a romantic evening as a couple or a chilled evening with friends listening to lounge music. I find it is nice for both!

This place certainly has a nice ambience. If you sit next to the entrance and coming at around 20:00, you may see dolphins swimming past the window of an aquarium behind you. The nicest spot is on the water. They have little individual palapas (each has its own table and sofa) built over the beautiful lagoon.

We tried all three soups Tom Yum  Goong (a clear soup with prawns, mushrooms and coriander leaves), Tom Kha Gai (coconut based soup with chicken and mushrooms) and Arawan (cucumber stuffed with pork). They were all flavourful. If you like sour flavours, the Tom Khai is a nice choice. The Arawan is the most original combination of ingredients. Pad Thai is very often mediocre, over-cooked noodles, but I find that this one was surprisingly good! The green curry and yellow curry dishes were not exciting, but very good as well.

The service is good.

Main courses vary but are around $10-20. The total bill per person was around 400 pesos (exchange rate at the time was around 15 pesos per dollar, so in dollars it was 26US).

La Isla Shopping Center, Local B-4

Cancun

Tel 998 144 0364

Restaurants Madrid - Mades Warung (recommendable)

Delicious, light thai meal, with a nice combination of flavours. The dishes are presented nicely.

We tried the:

Chicken satay

Crab soup

Nasi Goreng with shrimps

Curry with chicken

The curry had a nice touch due to the fresh flavour of the lemon grass, however the Nasi Goreng was not very adventurous. It is a pretty standard fried rice with palm sugar syrup.

Overall, they try hard with the service. According to a local friend, they are unusually obliging.

The place gets full after 10pm and therefore I would recommend making a reservation. But this is a general rule for Spain. It is always good to reserve. If you however want to eat at 19:00 or 20:00 your problem wont be finding a table but rather and open restaurant (Spanish eat dinner quite late).

33 per person which is reasonable.

Mades Warung

calle Reina 15

Madrid

Tel 915 232 017

www.mades-warung.com