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The prix-fixe Thai "wonton" noodles are the best Thai baby food in NYC.
Seriously, I expect more from even pathetic Manhattan Thai than this insult. Mushy broad noodles, chicken snausage and wilted greens $20. Have these people ever eaten real Thai food? Probably not.

It's Cevapi Cart. It's a truck.

@mdp It's not about "cultural purity". Thai recipes have been develped over hundreds of years to fully engage the tastebuds with a balance of spicy, salty, sour and sweet. Hence the use of fish sauce, shrimp paste and fiery chilis. When cuisines are Americanized they tend to become overly sweet. It totally ruins the taste balance of the cuisine. You can see this dynamic taking place in the Americanized versions of Thai, Mexican, Chinese and Italian foods. By willy-nilly throwing out key ingredients, you turn an venerable cuisine into a sickly sweet whore. It's why Woodside Thai rocks and Midtown Thai sucks! That's what it means to speak of "real Thai"!

This is why so many ethnic restaurants in NYC suck. Neurotic gringos are constantly pressuring them to dumb down their food. They are so eager to please they wind up ruining their food. Thai cuisine has been using fish sauce for hundred of years. Who are you to make them change their cuisine? It's really cultural pollution. If you want vegan food go eat the sawdust at Angelica's and stop trying to ruin one of the best Thai places in America. Oh yeah, and eating takeout doesn't qualify as eating at a restaurant the steam from the food makes it soggy.

The menu says the cucumber is in "light syrup" whatever that means. It tastes creamy, not syrup sweet. Here is a link Sinh To & other Viet drinks on googlebooks: http://books.google.com/books?id=ef7uLfhufaYC&pg=PA170&dq=sinh+to+recipe It looks like you can mix or substitute coconut milk with condensed milk but otherwise just crushed ice & fruit. I also like the Sinh To ($3) at New Tu Do (102 Bowery @Hester). They have carrot, papaya, watermelon (mmm), mango, sapota & soursop flavors. You can get them to go at the counter. HOT Weather is coming!!!

All kinds of offbeat, cheapo ethnic place pop up in the West 20s-30s to serve traders in the Garment/Wholesale trades. I noticed it right after I had lunch. Thanks for checking it out.