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[anomie666.livejournal.com]

1) What is the best phad thai in the area? Is it the new place called "taipei tokyo" or would you recommend someplace further out?

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Comments

[incontango.livejournal.com]

Yes and yes.

I also like the places near me - Spice and Rice, and Montien in Inman Square.

[canongrrl.livejournal.com]

Sweet chili does have some of the bet pad thai (and drunken noodle) in the area. And be sure you are in the Arlington one - the other location isn't as good. Spice and Rice I've been highly unimpressed with (and I think its the same ownership) but I know some friends do love em...

Towards the city hall yum yum hut does decent pad thai. Also the thai place in north cambridge in the little strip by pemberton farms - its still not in the same league as sweet chili but its decent.

If Taipei Tokyo is the one in Arlington I was highly unimpressed with there stuff - it was better than some but...

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

Yummy Hut has an excellent non-authentic phad thai. Which is actually what I prefer.

Plus, they give you enough food to last several days.

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

Plus, they give you enough food to last several days.

Always good to my way of thinking. I love leftovers...

[canongrrl.livejournal.com]

that may be in - I always ordered take out and they had the green menu =)

decent is a great word - a little more greasy than I like but solid.

Funny enough Green Papaya (out in waltham) has some of my fav Thai dishes (great duck and crazy noodle) but *horrid* pad thai

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

Re: Green Papaya - Good to hear, because I -hated- their pad thai and never went back. I could never understand why everyone said they were so awesome!!

[ron_newman]

There's a Taipei Tokyo in Arlington too? I thought we had the only one.

[unferth.livejournal.com]

I believe the Taipei Tokyo in Davis is the only one in the Boston area, but there is also a restaurant by that name in Northampton, MA. The Northampton location predates the Davis one by many years. I have not personally discussed the relationship with the staff at the Davis location, but I remember hearing somewhere that it's a family franchise - the Davis one is run by relatives of the owners of the Northampton one.

Some casual google searching indicates that there may be a third in New Hampshire.

There is also a restaurant called the Taipei-Tokyo Cafe in Rockville, MD, but I believe it to be unrelated to the Massachusetts ones.

[sundaisy-summer.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I've ever had the Yummy Hut's pad thai, but I LOVE their General Gau's Tofu...sooo good!

I like Tip Top Thai and Pepper Sky for pad thai. I haven't had it in awhile, but I remember East Asia in Powderhouse having very tasty pad thai and their tofu is pretty darn good to boot... I think it's homemade! Yum. East Asia is better for take-out though!

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

Their phad thai is my personal favorite. I either get the "house" phad thai or the chicken and its always enough food for 2 meals.

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

Taipei Tokyo I think is only in Davis Square, but I could be wrong on this. Hmmm.

[canongrrl.livejournal.com]

there is something with a similar name that opened up in arlington center - ahh thai moon - I got the names really confused - they opened at the same time.

[ron_newman]

OK, but ... "tai" in Taipei Tokyo is Taiwan, not Thailand.

[canongrrl.livejournal.com]

opened as in opened in the same week in time (or thereabouts) - not in sound

[billharnois.livejournal.com]

Joey's Thai isn't very good. I miss Benjapons.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Wow. I feel the exact opposite; I think the food is much better quality. I don't order the pad thai, but my friend who does prefers Joey's to Benjapon's (and misses Fusion's crispy pad thai).

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

I really like the phad thai at Sweet Chili (in Arlington Center, though there is also one in Cambridge). Montienne in the theatre district is also good. Unfortunately, the best place (IMHO) for phad thai closed... it was Rod Thai in Chinatown.

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

I personally mourned their pad thai as well...

[mysticalchild_isis]

I really like Lemon Thai on Highland, near the Somerville Hospital. Fantastic food.

[fefie.livejournal.com]

I *love* Lemon Thai, for Pad Thai or anything Thai; (I'm in there pretty often.) I didn't know that Yummy Hut, 2 doors away also had Pad Thai.

[madscientist01.livejournal.com]

Another vote for Lemon Thai! I just found this place a few weeks ago... after partaking of their country pad thai, my roommates and I swore to never eat another burrito again. Of course we were lying, but it really was THAT good!

[kalliejenn2.livejournal.com]

i'm absolutely in love with the pad thai at tip top thai in teele square. mmmmm.`

[teele-sq.livejournal.com]

I've never been a huge fan of that place. Maybe I ought to give it another chance.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I second this, the Tip Top may not be the absolute greatest Thai place, but they've got good prices, the food's tasty, and the service is pretty good.

[librarybrandy.livejournal.com]

I moved out of Davis about a year ago, but I'd never found any decent Thai in that area. If you're willing to go a little further afield, Pepper Sky in Central Square is amazingly good. (I think they deliver, too, but I don't know how far their delivery radius goes or if there's a charge for it--they're about 2 blocks away from where I live now, so we just go pick it up.)

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

My favorite Camberville Pad Thai is at Tamarind House (http://www.tamarind.thaifooddirect.com/) between Harvard and Porter (closer to Porter). Sugar and Spice (http://www.sugarspices.com/) on the other side of Porter is blander, but it's been growing on me*. Note: that second website has default music music

*not literally

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

I like the Pad Thai at Thai Kitchen on Massachusetts Avenue, a 5 minute walk from Davis...

[suzybuzz.livejournal.com]

Spice and Rice is by far the best and the most fun.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

It's not Pad Thai, but the Singapore Rice Noodle at Taipei Tokyo is AWESOME. I highly recommend it.

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

"Phad thai"? Is that a new kind of burrito?

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Boloco just came up with a new flavor.

[blondeamazon.livejournal.com]

Great Thai Chef in Union Square has some of the best Thai food, evarh! I have brought many friends there and we have never been disappointed in any dish ordered.

Agree!

[dfischman.livejournal.com]

I work in Union Square, and I have to convince myself to have lunch anywhere else but Great Thai Chef.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Whoa!

Whether or not that plug actually works, you rock SO HARD. Thanks. :)

[tfarrell.livejournal.com]

In the relatively immediate area, Sugar & Spice, in Porter Square (on mass ave near the dunkies), has excellent thai food, including excellent pad thai.

If you're willing to go a little further out, my favorite thai food is at The Similans, at Lechmere. Amazing food, but definitely not fast food prices.