Makiin Thai

Went back to Makiin Thai.  

The Red Naga mocktail - it has hibiscus tea, cherry syrup, honey, lemon, and the foam is egg white.  It's actually pretty tasty and not too heavy or sugary. 

My friend got the Phuket Dream, which has pandan, pineapple, with coconut water.  As you know pandan and coconut is a great mix, so it came out very nice. 

For savory, this is the Penang Dumpling.  Definitely yummy to get. It has chicken as the filling and the cause is Penang Curry - one of my fav. 

This is lemongrass chicken, it's minced chicken spiced with lemongrass, turmeric, Thai chili, garlic, kefir lime leaves, all mixed and wrapped around sugar cane. It falls right off and you dip the sauce, it's perfection. 

Another favorite, Roti with 3 kinds of Curries. It has Penang Curry, Green Curry, and Massaman Curry.  It was so good that we ran out of roti, and you can ask the server for more.  Which, of course, it fills us up. 

Beef Drunken Noodles - flat noodles and sliced beef with carrots, onion, peppers.  It's really good, and as much as we want to eat it all, we have to save room for dessert. 

We got the Zesty Mango Sticky Rice - the rice at the bottom it is nice a warm cooked in coconut milk. diced mango with coconut ice cream with butterfly pea color.  It's all house-made.  Very delicious and we dip it with the fruit gels. 

For parking, you definitely can do valet.  But you can also find parking on the streets.  The streets on both sides have spots, also there's a few spots in the front of the building that you're welcome to park there.  The parking garage said they have retail parking but it's also valet and that valet works better for residents than for diners.  If you ended up doing valet, use the one at the front of the restaurant for convenience. 

Makiin Thai

2651 Kipling St

#101

Houston, TX 77098

832-695-9999

https://www.makiinthai.com/

 

Thai-Kun

Ended up at Post downtown. 

Thai sounded good, and doesn't seem to have a line at walk-up, that just made my decision on food of choice, easier. 

I got Pad See Ew - it has flat noodles, soy sauce, Chinese broccoli, chicken and chive.  I got a drink so the server was upselling me to a set.  It came with egg roll, so figured, why not?!  Welp! It should've been a no!  The egg roll was cold and it has no taste.  So, noodles was great, the mango drink was great, the egg roll - stay away!

The rest of the dishes looks good too, so maybe other food, not the egg rolls?!?!

Thai-Kun

in Post HTX

401 Franklin St

Houston, TX 77201

https://www.posthtx.com/eat/thai-kun

https://thaikun.com/

 

Le Thai

 When in Vegas, I'd like to go downtown.  It's very kitsh, stereotypical Vegas there.

But that's where they still have alot of the neon signs.  Mind you, the Neon Museum's bone yard is not far, should you have time to do a side trip off Strip. 

It's been 4 years since I've been to Le Thai.  But true to all good places in Vegas, a reservation guarantees an easier in, than walk-up.

First off, we got the Chicken Skin, I think we all liked the sauce and it's truly more like chicken meat chunk with skin, than chicken skin by itself.  

Then we got the Papaya Salad, it's green papaya (not the orange one you have in mind).  It comes with peanuts, Thai chili, carrot, tomato, lime.  It came with a little sticky rice.  You can opt to make it a tad more spicy with a kick, but it's still good either way.  The texture is nice and crunchy. 

We also got the Awesome Flat Noodle with tofu, it has green scallion, noodles, bean sprouts, and stir fry them together.  

Of course we got their famous Short Rib Fried Rice.  It is so flavorful, the meat is top notch, it's no wonder this dish is the best seller in the shop.  So much so that they have T-shirts and Baseball cap for sell. 

We also got the 3 color curry, it's a blend of red, yellow, and green curry, that way it's not too spicy, but has enough flavor.  Of course, I love my curry over rice, it was soooo good.  We added chicken for some protein.  It was delicious.

The place is located right outside of Fremont Street, so before and after meal, you can take a walk, watch the Fremont Street acts, and the light show.  The place is lively no matter if you are in it or right outside of it. 

As mentioned before, having a reservation makes life easier for all food worth having in Vegas.  I will say, this shop, does do confirm, and re-confirm.  That does tell you that they're so popular that they want to make sure the tables are available when you get there.  So don't ignore the texts the day of, when they ask you to re-confirm. 

Le Thai

523 Fremont St

Las Vegas, NV 89101

702-778-0888

https://lethaivegas.com/