10 Great Thai Restaurants in Orange County (and Long Beach)

Long Beach’s Anaheim Street is to Cambodians what OC’s Bolsa Avenue is to Vietnamese. And for close to eight years, one of the most successful and beloved restaurants there was Sophy’s Thai and Cambodian. But in late 2008—a year after the largest...

Little La Lune is located on an unpretty part of Pacific Coast Highway, in a strip mall with less than 10 parking spots—and they're all taken. But stay in your car and wait with the air conditioning on, and soon, a few people will exit the...

That tingly itch you get on the top of your head when you swallow a spoonful of hot, spicy green curry. That soothing, creamy comfort of a fast swig of Thai iced tea. That aromatic swoosh that fills the room when you pop the top of a container of...

Bangkok Kitchen    Chada Thai    Issara Thai    Jasmine    Lucky's Thai    Sumran Thai    Street Thai    Thai Avenue    Thai & Laos Market    Thai Nakorn   

Pad thai is the benchmark most people use to gauge a Thai restaurant's authenticity. Not me. I rely on pad see ewe, a simple soy-sauce-and-rice-noodle dish with only a few ingredients and a lot of room for error. How well it's executed depends on...

If you want to understand Night + Market Song, Kris Yenbamroong’s new Thai restaurant in Silver Lake, you could do worse than to look at the luu suk, a puddle of warm pig blood, strewn with feathery Southeast Asian herbs, served in a shallow bowl....