Often relegated to sickly-sweet Pad Thai at take out joints, I'm usually left disgusted with the selection of Thai restaurants in New York City. And with possible the exception of Mexican food, does New York do a greater disservice to any ethnic food more than Thai? Instead of delicious food that combines sweet, sour, salty and spicy flavors harmoniously, many of the Thai restaurants I've sampled offer a mere semblance of this proud and complex country. Yet, on further inspection, I've come to the conclusion that my inability to find good Thai food was the result of not knowing where to look.
Fortunately for me, one of
MW's friends does know where some the best Thai food is and helped steer us in the right direction. So after work I found myself jumping on the 7 train uptown to Woodside, Queens where I met up with
MW,
YW,
JC,
MC and
LC at
Sripraphai Thai Restaurant. Located near the train station, Sripraphai was a full house when I met my dinner party outside. After a short wait, we were seated at one of the restaurant's larger tables. The interior has little, if any, ambiance. Instead, the restaurant's space is configured for squeezing the maximal amount of people into its walls.
