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Corn Bread Dressing with Pecans and Bacon sounds perfect for our southern-themed Thanksgiving feast!

Cranberry Sauce With Champagne and Currants

Pumpkin cheesecake...

smoked oyster and sticky rice in lotus leaf
want!!!!

Pumpkin Pie Brûlée sounds amazing!

Pumpkin pie brulee

sprouts and bacon. mmmm.

Butternut Squash Apple Cranberry Bake.

butternut bisque

brussels sprouts and bacon

@bogusrogus: Good point regarding the bread. I still the cheese issue is relevant, but you're definitely right to point out that people not particularly concerned with making bread would have trouble producing a quality crust.

@foolishpoolish: I'm with you on saag paneer pizza 100%. In fact, it was thinking of that that stopped me from condemning all of Asia. And back to my cheese point and bogusrogus's bread point - neither of those apply to India, a country that does use cheese and puts out nan, a classic flatbread.

@finewinendine: Thanks for the editing help. I've fixed the text to reflect my original sentence. I must have messed up cutting and pasting in the editing process.

@Lyra Ngalia and esseelig: I feel bad writing a place off after one visit so I'll have to give the chicken satay pizza a try next time I'm in U City. Could be a while before that happens though.

Okay, lifelong U. City resident and former WU student here -- I can settle a few of the questions. For the "space that formerly ______" question, Thai Pizza Co. is in the space that formerly held another Prapaisilapa Thai restaurant, Thai Seafood Cafe.

As for introducing Thai food to St. Louis, as I look at the website, I think that it's the phrasing that's key here, since they don't explicitly say that they had the first Thai restaurant in St. Louis. I know for a fact that there was a good but short-lived Thai restaurant also in the U. City area called Thai Town on Olive Blvd. in the eighties. With the longevity of the Prapaisilapa restaurants though, it probably is fair to say that Thai Cafe and Thai Country Cafe have probably been more successful at introducing Thai food to St. Louis, as they were pretty much contemporary with the Loop's escalation in popularity. I would imagine that The King & I on South Grand has probably been around since the '80s (or maybe even '70s?) as well.

I've been to Thai Pizza numerous times since it opened, and my findings have pretty much been this: next to falafel wraps from Al-Tarboush, the pizzas from here were always one of the best food deals in the Loop (I think that the 9" pizzas used to be either $6 or $7, but pretty much every restaurant has raised their prices in the last 2 years). The thin crusts always seemed pretty filling, so to get the thick crust was basically total overkill (and yes, since their crusts are lacking for flavor a bit, it's usually best to stick to the thin).

I enjoy Thai curries quite a bit, but every time that I've tried a curry pizza from here, the curry flavor does get lost between the crust and the cheese combo. On the other hand, as a few people mention above, their chicken satay pizza has never let me down, always quite flavorful.

Incidentally, for all cultural fusion pizza superfans, I just had some really good gyro/tzatziki pizza in St. Louis from Anthonino's, a Greek/Italian restaurant on the Hill.