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Monday, February 1, 2010

Tangthai (Robson)

by KimHo on February 1, 2010 under: British Columbia,Food,Restaurant

Tangthai Cuisine of Thailand
1626 West Broadway
1779 Robson Street (Location visisted)
Vancouver, BC
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Ah, so many new restaurants opening, yet so little times at times… Tangthai is one of the newest restaurants opening near the corner of Robson and Denman where it is already well known to be the epicentre of ramen in Vancouver – where you can find Kintaro, Motomachi Shokudo and Benkei Ramen, all of them in the same block (plus the soon to be open Santouka in the next block). Thai cuisine is one of those that I know can be really bold, yet, for other reasons, it seems to be continuously bastardised to the point I am not sure if it can be considered ethnic anymore. True, I am Chinese and not a Thai expert in any way. So, for this purpose, I have been bugging Victoria (of Victoria’s Food Secrets), the in-house Thai food blogger expert in Vancouver, to help me check Tangthai: Would it pass her litmus test?


Not the best picture. I might retake this one…

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