Cheap Eats 2009

By Matthew Korfhage

No fusion-y adventurism, and no Pok-Pok-style japes at authenticity—it's Thai food like you're used to getting in America, but better. The beef is slow-cooked and juicy as any steakhouse steak—at its best in pad khing sod ($7 on the lunch menu). The viciously spicy yum nuor beef salad ($7.95) satisfies likewise, as did a recent duck-apple-cucumber salad special ($10.50). The outstanding peanut sauce is emboldened by plum, the tilapia is soft and spicy-sweet. We hesitate even to tell you about this place, but the secret had to get out someday.

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Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage has lived in St. Louis, Chicago, Munich and Bordeaux, but comes from Portland, where he makes guides to the city and writes about food, booze and books. He likes the Oxford comma but can't use it in the newspaper.

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