Thai Food and Cooking

Karta offers Thai with a smile

New Northeast spot has a lot to make diners happy, including the prices

Summer cocktail recipe: Watermelon chili pepper margarita

See also: Raspberry basil rum fizz Ginger beet gin & tonic This week's cocktail is a nifty play on the sweet 'n' spicy dynamic, with the freshest watermelon pureed and strained to extract its essence. Thai chili pepper gives this drink a swift kick. Add more or less chili peppers to your taste.

Royal Orchid reopens in Columbia Heights

Royal Orchid, which formerly had a location in Roseville in addition to its spot in the skyway of downtown Minneapolis, has reopened on Central Avenue in Columbia Heights after being closed in Roseville for the past year and a half. This is a welcome development for the stretch of Central Avenue th ... More >>

Time for charity and a leap beer this Week in Food

$2.50 pints at Town Hall on Wednesday​There's an extra day this month to cram in some more eating, so we recommend a few charitable dining enterprises or the well-timed "leap beer" at Town Hall on Wednesday to make the most of it. 2/28 Don't wait for takeout to get your Thai fix. Hit up the ... More >>

Krungthep Thai is the real deal

Eat Street spot wins with authenticity

Chrysanthemum juice at Bangkok Thai: Drink of the week

Flower-kissed.Chrysanthemum juice $2 Bangkok Thai 315 University Ave. W., St. Paul 651.224.4300 In an usual mosaic-covered building on University Avenue, some of the most mind-blowingly delicious and authentic Thai food is served. This place falls into that "hole-in-the-wall" category. The menu is ... More >>

Kinsen Noodles' ambiance outshines the food

Style over substance in Uptown

Vellee Deli food truck serves fusion cuisine curbside

It's a Vellee good day in the neighborhood​Vellee Deli's slick black truck has been winding through Minneapolis and Saint Paul streets serving a combination of Mexican and Asian cuisines.  The new mobile kitchen is owned and operated by William Xiong and his partner/executive chef Joyce Truon ... More >>

Naviya's and On's Thai spice up the Twin Cities

Two new Thai restaurants in Linden Hills and St. Paul

On's Thai Kitchen Nam Thok: 100 Favorite Dishes, No. 59

An off-menu variant of Nam Thok at On's. ​Sure, On's Thai Kitchen on University Avenue offers the usual suspects: spring rolls, green curry, pad Thai. But it's worth exploring the further corners of the menu's authentic, home-style Thai cooking and considering lesser-seen dishes such as Pad-Ph ... More >>

Naviya's Thai Kitchen now open

Thai food comes to Linden HIlls.​The long-lost Naviya's is back! Naviya's Thai Kitchen opened this weekend on 43rd Street and Sheridan (between Dunn Bros. and Famous Dave's), filling a void in Linden Hills dining scene left when Rice Paper decamped for Edina. Naviya and Kim La Barge have ear ... More >>

Sen Yai Sen Lek vs. Taste of Thailand: Who has the best pad thai?

A.J. OlmscheidA taste of Taste of Thailand's pad thai​This week Food Fight went for another top takeout dish, pad thai. Between our two competitors, Taste of Thailand and Sen Yai Sen Lek, we found that while the main ingredients are fairly uniform--a heaping pile of noodles, a sprinkling of c ... More >>

Wok in the Park: the Thanh Do crew, minus Thom Pham

Wok across the street from Thanh Do for more pan-Asian fare.​While Thom Pham has been busy running his new Wondrous Azian Kitchen and thinking about reopening Azia, his original restaurant, Thanh Do, has been quietly humming along in its new St. Louis Park digs--and experiencing some friendly ... More >>

Ginger Cucumber Amore--a drink recipe from the garden

Michelle LeonAn experiment with the flavors found in Thai cooking.​Using the freshest of the season's ingredients--this time, cucumber--we continue to share drink recipes that make the most of the harvest. We named this cocktail Ginger Cucumber Amore because the flavors blended in such a heav ... More >>

Taste of Minnesota and Red, White, and Boom punctuate the Week in Food

God bless our freedom from kippers and tripe. ​It's a week of celebrations from Thai cuisine and kale to local food and folk music. Not to mention our independence from bangers and mash and our right to light pyrotechnics. Your Week in Food . . . Monday 6/28 We've come a long way since Swedish ... More >>

William's, Blue Door Pub: 5 great peanut dishes (could they soon be allergy free?)

Photo by: Jack Dykinga​ Great news for the 1.3 percent of the population allergic to peanuts: At a recent conference in London, USDA research scientist Soheila Maleki announced that her team is close to developing a hypoallergenic peanut. The scientists discovered that nuts with certain gene ... More >>

Sven Sundgaard has mastered the microwave

​Local weatherdude Sven Sundgaard is off your television screen and on vacation this week, enjoying the heat and hummus in Israel and Jordan. When he's not globetrotting, the active Sundgaard can most often be found at the nearest Thai food establishment.

Cafe Kem and Bubble Me: Two new Asian powerhouses

Quick-service cafes get it done

Food Fight: Sen Yai Sen Lek vs. True Thai tom yum

What better way to preface a flavorful curry than with the mild, citrus-y tang of a bowl of tom yum.

Mt. Fuji and Zen crowd Uptown's overgrown Asian cuisine market

Lyndale and Hennepin are peppered with a plethora of Asian fusion options

Roat Osha replaces Uptown Thai staple Sawatdee

Name translates to "food for a king"—so is it?

Tapes 'n Tapes want to help you save your nickels 'n dimes

Moto-i and the Case of the Naked Peanuts

Sen Yai Sen Lek: the family behind the food.

Sen Yai Sen Lek's Thai menu is bold yet inviting

Thai restaurant intersects authentic and accessible

Roll Playing

Bagu gets creative with sushi

Barhopping: Tum Rup Thai

At Your Service: Cedar Ave.

Asian Oasis

Ronin Sushi Cafe offers relief in the fast-food desert of Lakeville

First Look: Kindee Thai

Thai Soul Food

Ruam Mit Thai dazzles with its take on classic dishes

Hey guys, I've cracked the recipe for restaurant-style Thai lemongrass soup

Otho: Pioneers of Portland Avenue

The first fine-dining restaurant in a gentrifying neighborhood has its share of hits and misses

Great Thai Outliers

Two fantastic Thai places revealed in the suburbs—so rejoice! Or gnash your teeth, depending.

Thai Uptown Style

Tum Rup has one thing a neighborhood really needs: Good food at reasonable prices for the people who live there

Pucker Power

If life gives you lemons, that's a start. But local chefs cook with a symphony of sour.

Heartland Cooking, With Fish Sauce

Cooking instructor Supatra Johnson connects the dots from southeast Asian farmers to you

Vietnamese Va-Voom

Breadbox-sized Rice Paper proves that sometimes less is more

True Thai Story

A decade in the making, an Asian gem that's neither dumbed down nor sugared up

Easter Buffeted

Ham for one, and other celebratory ways to get rid of a pig

Long Live the King

Pie to Thai

Take the Slow Boat

It's a Noodle World

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

Great Noodles, Hold the Poetry

Baht of Course!

Spice of Life

Welcome To The Jungle

Simple in '96!