Pa-Ord Pad Thai
Last June, it was a seemingly innocuous order of takeout pad see iew from Pa-Ord that captured my attention. Nearly a year later, it was the equally rote pad Thai that exceeded expectations at...
Captain Thai Restaurant Vietnamese Sausage [CLOSED]
Aside from Saturday’s epic five-stop Taco Task Force: Carnitas, which will be the subject of a separate post, it had been a pretty slow week in pork. My stomach had one last chance to...
Renu Nakorn Pork Stew Northern Style
Bucolic spa-like music greets you at this longtime northern Thai favorite, which occupies a strip mall storefront in the southeast L.A. County hamlet of Norwalk. Renu Nakorn, named for a town in northern Thailand,...
Pa-Ord Pad See Iew
Pad See Iew probably seems pretty pedestrian, and it is, especially compared to Pa-Ord’s more compelling porcine options, including crispy pork with Chinese broccoli and soup with barbecued pork, crumbled pork, pork balls and...
Thai Nakorn: Rising From the Ashes in Garden Grove
Los Angeles hosts a handful of superlative Thai restaurants, and Little Saigon features dozens of compelling Vietnamese restaurants, so the idea of driving to the latter to eat the former didn’t quite compute. However,...
Thai Nakorn Stuffed Squid
Orange County eating maven Dave Lieberman, who contributes food stories to OC Weekly, said he must have eaten at Thai Nakorn 100 times. During our lunch at the standout Stanton Thai restaurant, he proceeded...
