DisainaM
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Nachdem ich mal wieder bei S.C.T. eine Eigenwerbung für ein Thairestaurant in den USA gesehen hatte, wo man wieder diese bestimmte Art, der indirekten Selbstbeschreibung findet,
(wir sind kein Show-Restaurant, im Gegenteil, wir befinden uns in einem heruntergekommenden Viertel ... usw)
halt reposte ichs hier nochmal.
Lotus of Siam isn´t glitzy, glamorous, or owned by a famous chef. It
isn´t
even on the Strip. Lotus of Siam is
one of the unlikeliest great restaurants in
the world, located in a cramped
storefront in a dusty working-class strip mall
that seems to contain most of the
ethnic businesses in Las Vegas. It´s
surrounded by Korean taverns and
Mexica dance clubs one mile, five minutes
and a thousand broken hearts away
from the billion-dollar casinos of the Strip.
Nearly everybody in the restaurant
is there at lunchtime for the $5.99 buffet.
Lotus of Siam may be the single best
Thai restaurant in North America. Food
is mostly Isaan-style country dishes
from Northeastern Thailand: grilled sour
pork sausages garnished with fried
peanuts and grilled prawns, big as bananas,
with tamarind sauce; hot-and-sour
soup spiked with bits of Cambodian
smoked fish; thin, intense,
Laotian-style vegetable curries with the
clean-stables funk of fermented
bamboo shoots; a perfect nam sod (an Isaan
dish of ground pork flash-fried with
lime juice, ginger, and peanuts with straw
canisters of sticky rice to scoop up
the nam sod in the country-Thai manner.
You can roll some of the rice into a
little ball and use it as an edible spoon.
There´s also a huge selection of
Isaan salads sometimes called larbs,
blistering-hot concoctions of minced
squid or shredded bamboo shoots,
chicken or finely ground catfish
seasoned with lime, chili and a gritty powder
made from nutty-brown toasted rice.
Try the appetizer man kao tod, a
sort of salad made with crunchy rice, fried
peanuts, and cubes of raw cured pork
sausages tossed with a bit of lime juice.
There´s also nua dad deaw, an Isaan
jerky compressed to the density of a
neutron star, and fried whole
catfish with skin crackled with chili-fired
sweetness, and green papaya salads
also painfully crunchy with briny,
dine-size pickled crabs.
Whenever we can make it down to Las
Vegas, we go for the buffet tables, and
somehow manage the eat there at
least twice a day. A small mound of rice,
pad Thai, a bit of fried fish, some
string beans, a mild rich coconut curry, and
perhaps, the best chicken wings in
the world (it´s not Thai food, by the way).
There are three menus; regular Thai
food you can find in any Thai restaurant,
the Isaan specialties menu, and the
northern Thai menu from the Chiang Mai
region, the restaurant´s true
specialty.
Nam prik noom – warm, chunky puree
of freshly roasted green chilies pound
in a stone mortar and served with
lots of things to scoop it up with (sort of a
Thai salsa): sliced cucumbers,
sizzling pork rinds, tiny green eggplants to size
of golf balls; fresh rau ram,
cilantro, a couple different kinds of herbs and
ferns, roasted chickpeas and more.
The northern-style sausage sai oua
is practically a worldview in a natural
casing, a brick red banger stuffed
with sour herbs, chilies, coarsely chopped
pork, like a hot link from another
planet. The jackfruit larb is more a cooked
dish than a salad, the thinnest
shreds of the immature green fruit is sautéed
with ground pork and tomatoes until
it reaches nearly the consistency of a
fragrant sauce.
There´s also a soothing northern
pork stew, spiced almost like a pie filling,
and there´s a marinated version of
the northern noodle soup khao soi, and a
mild, coconut-flavored curry with
Thai pickles and lime. Khao soy can be
made for you if you call ahead, a
salad made of the most tender beef, minced
by hand and marinated.
Lotus of Siam
953 East Sahara Avenue, Suite A5
Tel: 702 735 3033
Open for lunch weekdays; dinner
daily. Starters: $5 to $12, main courses $7
to $27, dessert extra.
(wir sind kein Show-Restaurant, im Gegenteil, wir befinden uns in einem heruntergekommenden Viertel ... usw)
halt reposte ichs hier nochmal.
Lotus of Siam isn´t glitzy, glamorous, or owned by a famous chef. It
isn´t
even on the Strip. Lotus of Siam is
one of the unlikeliest great restaurants in
the world, located in a cramped
storefront in a dusty working-class strip mall
that seems to contain most of the
ethnic businesses in Las Vegas. It´s
surrounded by Korean taverns and
Mexica dance clubs one mile, five minutes
and a thousand broken hearts away
from the billion-dollar casinos of the Strip.
Nearly everybody in the restaurant
is there at lunchtime for the $5.99 buffet.
Lotus of Siam may be the single best
Thai restaurant in North America. Food
is mostly Isaan-style country dishes
from Northeastern Thailand: grilled sour
pork sausages garnished with fried
peanuts and grilled prawns, big as bananas,
with tamarind sauce; hot-and-sour
soup spiked with bits of Cambodian
smoked fish; thin, intense,
Laotian-style vegetable curries with the
clean-stables funk of fermented
bamboo shoots; a perfect nam sod (an Isaan
dish of ground pork flash-fried with
lime juice, ginger, and peanuts with straw
canisters of sticky rice to scoop up
the nam sod in the country-Thai manner.
You can roll some of the rice into a
little ball and use it as an edible spoon.
There´s also a huge selection of
Isaan salads sometimes called larbs,
blistering-hot concoctions of minced
squid or shredded bamboo shoots,
chicken or finely ground catfish
seasoned with lime, chili and a gritty powder
made from nutty-brown toasted rice.
Try the appetizer man kao tod, a
sort of salad made with crunchy rice, fried
peanuts, and cubes of raw cured pork
sausages tossed with a bit of lime juice.
There´s also nua dad deaw, an Isaan
jerky compressed to the density of a
neutron star, and fried whole
catfish with skin crackled with chili-fired
sweetness, and green papaya salads
also painfully crunchy with briny,
dine-size pickled crabs.
Whenever we can make it down to Las
Vegas, we go for the buffet tables, and
somehow manage the eat there at
least twice a day. A small mound of rice,
pad Thai, a bit of fried fish, some
string beans, a mild rich coconut curry, and
perhaps, the best chicken wings in
the world (it´s not Thai food, by the way).
There are three menus; regular Thai
food you can find in any Thai restaurant,
the Isaan specialties menu, and the
northern Thai menu from the Chiang Mai
region, the restaurant´s true
specialty.
Nam prik noom – warm, chunky puree
of freshly roasted green chilies pound
in a stone mortar and served with
lots of things to scoop it up with (sort of a
Thai salsa): sliced cucumbers,
sizzling pork rinds, tiny green eggplants to size
of golf balls; fresh rau ram,
cilantro, a couple different kinds of herbs and
ferns, roasted chickpeas and more.
The northern-style sausage sai oua
is practically a worldview in a natural
casing, a brick red banger stuffed
with sour herbs, chilies, coarsely chopped
pork, like a hot link from another
planet. The jackfruit larb is more a cooked
dish than a salad, the thinnest
shreds of the immature green fruit is sautéed
with ground pork and tomatoes until
it reaches nearly the consistency of a
fragrant sauce.
There´s also a soothing northern
pork stew, spiced almost like a pie filling,
and there´s a marinated version of
the northern noodle soup khao soi, and a
mild, coconut-flavored curry with
Thai pickles and lime. Khao soy can be
made for you if you call ahead, a
salad made of the most tender beef, minced
by hand and marinated.
Lotus of Siam
953 East Sahara Avenue, Suite A5
Tel: 702 735 3033
Open for lunch weekdays; dinner
daily. Starters: $5 to $12, main courses $7
to $27, dessert extra.
