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😍 5/5 - Best Asian restaurant in Philly? Best Thai on East Coast? Yep, so far as I know.
By 👻 @MKulikowski, 07/22/2021 3:00 am
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You know how you're sometimes torn between sharing a secret you don't want to get out, and wanting to do right by people you respect and honour? I've held off on this review, because I don't want competition for seats. Kalaya was great pre-pandemic. Great, but tiny, and super, super loud inside. One of the few wonderful Philadelphia innovations of the pandemic is street seating, and restaurant tables where once out of town diners were competing for parking spaces with hostile locals playing savesies. Kalaya outdoors has doubled, perhaps tripled, its space, and it's magnificent. The space, that is. The food is better. The American version of Thai food seems generally to have been debased even quicker than other Asian cuisines, with the sugar and the over-sauced goop amped up an order or two of magnitude. You know the drill: the four curries, different colours, same flavours, the pad thai and drunken noodles and if you're really, really lucky, maybe some fish cakes. Throw all that expectation out the window here, open your mind and palate, and let yourself be guided by the expert service. Be honest about your spice tolerance. When they say it's hot spicy, it's hot spicy. When they say it's nuanced and the ingredients cut the heat, that's true too. There are some easy going routes in. We haven't tried the crab rangoon, but it's there, as are some fried rice dishes, and all of them smell good when they go by. But if you're adventurous, then just give your spice tolerance, any allergies or aversions, and your level of hunger or willingness for leftovers, and be guided. Because most of these dishes you will not have had before. The rotating selection of dumplings/appetizers are without exception excellent. Elegant too, with the kind of presentation that enhances the taste. The salads and appetizers are superb (also seasonal -- shrimp ceviche style, plump, the pickling transforming the texture of the protein, wow). The shredded duck salad, which seems to be a year-round staple, is extraordinary. Every bit of the duck meat, skin too, with toasted rice powder added to the sauce for texture. Exceptional. We've tried most of the curries by now, I think, by visit six or seven. The dry red curry tofu will challenge the expectations of even the most carnivorous human re vegan food. If you associate goat meat with bad Caribbean take away after a long night of too much drink, then try the goat curry. And if you think the idea of pickled vegetables stir fried with greens and egg sounds weird -- which it does when you first contemplate it -- think again. You'll note I've avoided trying to reproduce the Thai names of the dishes. I don't know Thai and I've yet to learn more than a handful of food words and the succinct, decidedly unpretentious descriptions of the dishes will help you choose what you want with no fuss and no embarrassment. Also, don't come expecting Asian take-away prices. If you do, there'll be sticker shock, which is totally unwarranted. Philadelphians are used to paying 20-30 bucks for an entree of mediocre red-sauce pasta and a secondo piatto that could have come off a bistro menu in the Godfather movies fifty years ago. You'll be paying at that price point here, but for some of the best non-western food you've ever eaten. (And it's BYO, so consider that part of the bargain!) Seriously, this is a twenty minute walk for us, but it's worth an actual commute. And outside the Vetri/Solomonov empires, how many Philly restaurants can claim that?
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