Practically addictive
Originally uploaded by: Edie Mcredie
This sweet and hot Thai Beef Salad is probably one of the best salads I have ever tasted. I don’t know what keeps me coming back to this small restaurant located in the corner of the Red Light district in Wanchai. The shop gets really crowded like every single day – almost jammed-packed with GRO’s at night until late. Are these foods an aphrodisiac?
I don’t know why people love the place. But I do know that the best food in town aren’t always serves in a Five Star Hotel, well in fact, they are available in streets or usually in some tiny restaurants with non-uniformed chef’s. I wonder what makes these traditional food taste so different than in a real restaurant. What makes these restaurant interesting is that the place is less than stellar but people come on here to tell folks that they are tasty. On the other hand, there are consumers who care about the whole restaurant experience, including service, decor, furnishings, and so on, so why people likes to eat cheap but good food in a not-so-decent place? Why do these Chef’s seemed more experienced than the Sous Chef in a Five Star? I wonder why our Mom’s can cook well too?
The beef salad is served semi-warm with a handfull of spring onions, slices of cucumber, red-chillies mixed with the beef steaks cut into thin slices. Before you eat them, start tossing the greens together and you can smell the aroma of the different spices. The combination of greens and dressing (it doesn’t taste like vinegar but it’s something close to that) makes the taste simply heavenly.
Thai Hut is the place to go when I am craving. Their food tastes so good it’s practically addictive. Once you’ve had it, you’ll want it all the time.
Thai Hut Shop
Shop 3 G/F Wanchai Central Building
89 Lockhart Road
Hong Kong
Tel# (852) 2866-8528
Till I Can’t Take It Anymore
by: Irma Thomas
Filed under: Dailies, Fashion, Food stuff, Happenings/Events, Hong Kong, Memes… or something, On The News, Pet Peeves | 15 Comments
I love thai food and I love thai guy hahaha!!!
make sure u bring me there when I in HK, but not sure when I will visit HK again!!!
sigh!!!
Wow, that sure looks nice. I want some now.
Vince, oh tell me about it (the latter part)
Weng, you sure? You want extra chilli?
I love Thai food as well. Had plenty in Thailand over the break. Coconut curries are the best, green ones.
I did have some great food in stands on the streets. My trick is to eat at stands where I can see a lot of people waiting or eating. It always works and is nice and cheap as well.
I miss thai food! There isn’t much around here. I also remember the thai restaurant at LKF [backstreet], we use to go there before we hang out at the bars. Take care!
I´m a little bit far to try, and I just had breakfast 30 min. ago. Maybe next time I go to HK. Next? no, I sorry, first.
Range, the curries? Amazing treat really. How about the Pad Thai? It’s a fried noodles with Shrimps and the taste is so delicious. Try that with a KFC fried chicken together, you’ll surely grab a nice cold coca cola afterwards. But you know, take it easy on street food hawkers, neiher one of us likes to get Hepatitis. LOL.
Masel, the rat alley? Of course, still there, recommended for the “tourist”. Do you know that the guy with an Elvis mustache still works there? The place is not going anywhere but there. Ang mura kaya dun anoh.
Inthesity, HK is very cosmopolitan, food here is everything. Spanish? Italian? almost many kinds are available around.
I am also wondering the same thing. Since you can find nice and deliciou food on the streets. Hmmm I should make a research then lol!
I love Thai food! There’s this Thai restaurant in Pomona called Sanam Luang. It’s about 30 minutes drive from our place. That’s where we go if we crave for Thai food and when we have guests.
Charles, special magic potion maybe? Hehehe, we’re not going to die with a little “dirt” in the food that we eat really.
Jaypee, Thai food is really a popular cuisines to many non-Asian people nowadays. How I wish our own “Kaldereta” would give us the pride of simply Filipino taste as well. Pero, di papatalo ang Litson Kawali, popular na yan dito sa HK.
I really want to go, but you know the problem, to many places to visit, few money to spend, short vacations….
You know K, I love this kind of food. That is mainly what I eat every single day kasi uwi ako and I want to look good in smimming suits.
@K – Oo nga eh, kulang lang sa promotion ang Filipino cuisine. Aside from the kaldereta, we have the adobo, sinigang and many more.
Inthesity, exactomento, I wish I was rich myself to even get to visit the parts of Europe. But do you know that going in Asia is cheap?
Belle, bikolano mahilig sa sili – that’s reason why I like it too. Madaling gawin yan, I’d say it’s the typical version of seaweeds na binabad sa suka (ano yun naging achara?). Mali, parang kinilaw? Mali. Basta appetizing sya.
Jaypee, Sinigang always gives me that wrinkled-looking face sa sobrang asim, lalo na kapag lasang sampaloc. But true, everytime I visit this Filipino resto here, Sinigang agad unang order. Dinuguan gusto mo?
Well cheap is not exactly the word. We´ve been looking for tickets to HK or Vietnam this summer and are really expensive about 1200 euros, only the plain tickets, but there are more expensive, like Philipines or Japan, and of course Polinesia or New Zeland.