Review: Hanuman takes Thai dining upscale in Costa Mesa

Critic Brad A. Johnson says the khao soi is the best of its genre in Orange County

Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • October 14, 2021

The velvet banquettes, the custom wallpaper, the teak wood carvings and hand-stenciled cement floors, plus truly beautiful china and serving wares: Hanuman in Costa Mesa is easily the prettiest Thai restaurant in Orange County. The food, too, is...

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At Night + Market Song, just eat, don't ask

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • June 28, 2014

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....

Restaurant review: Pok Pok Phat Thai in Chinatown, a learning process

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • February 14, 2015

Pok Pok Phat Thai is the first Los Angeles outpost of Andy Ricker, the American-born chef who has built a small Thai food empire in Portland, Ore., and New York. It is a small counter built into the Chinatown mall storefront where the chicken pho...

Review: Andy Ricker's Pok Pok brings a genuine taste of Thailand to L.A.

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • December 25, 2015

Is it possible to become converted in a single bite? Because with a single fried chicken wing at the original Portland Pok Pok in 2007, I dropped my prejudices about non-European cooking in Oregon, the crossover potential of extreme Asian funk,...

Review: Luv2eat is one of Hollywood's essential Thai restaurants

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • March 5, 2020

When ordering jade noodles at Hollywood’s Luv2eat Thai Bistro, you have a choice: broth poured over top or served on the side? Dry-style is the move. Adding stock would dilute the truest aim of the dish: to relish how the meats gloss the pale...

Luv2eat Thai Bistro

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

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • May 11, 2012

For this list of ten great Thai restaurants, not only have I included those from Long Beach (a non-OC city that's always been under this paper's jurisdiction), but also some Thai-Cambodian, some Thai-Laotian, and even a Thai-sushi hybrid, because...