Someone wrote: : The above portions of your post leave me wondering if the : restaurant owners are Genuine Thai or 'Faux Thai'. : I mean, Thais LOVE their food super spicy!!!! For them to claim : it to be spicy and you, a gringo, to say it isn't is a GROSS : contradiction - not just a mild contradiction. Well, they ain't native-born USAn (unlike the owners of the very first "Thai" restaurant I ever went to). Could very well be that someone scared them about how the gringos can't tolerate spice. I've been to several Thai restaurants, both blatantly faux and supposedly genuine, and I've never run into anything that I would consider hot. I have a fairly high tolerance for spice, but I can tell if it's there, and I've never even gotten a twitch from restaurant Thai food. It would probably be better to judge the Thai Spice restaurant by the entrees and not the buffet, which is what I had; if anything is going to be toned down for the unwashed masses, it'll be the buffet. I don't know if this is the first restaurant they've run in the States or not; if it is, maybe someone should tell them that it's ok to turn up the heat. Hg
Austin, TX
Thai Spice
Tuesday I tried the lunch buffet at Thai Spice, the new Thai restaurant in the shopping center at MoPac and Parmer, next to Azuma Express (where Stelline used to be). Summary: it was good. $6.95, which is a bit high for a lunch buffet, but I thought the food quality was pretty high, nothing had that "mass-produced for a buffet" feel/taste to it. A pretty decent variety, with a couple of Chinese entrees tossed in. They offered three different varieties of spring rolls, for example. On the other hand, I wish they had a slightly wider array of entree choices. In the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger: I'll be back. Craig
Someone wrote: : Summary: it was good. $6.95, which is a bit high for a lunch : buffet, but I thought the food quality was pretty high, nothing : had that "mass-produced for a buffet" feel/taste to it. A pretty Oh, yeah, I meant to mention that. Unlike at other buffets I've met, the stuff on the Thai Spice buffet didn't seem to be the worse for the wear for sitting there, with the slight exception of the pad thai, which was still surviving but looking a little mournful. Tasted fine, though. Didja have the sticky rice for dessert? Huh? Huh? Didja? I had seconds! And what did you think of the spice level? Hg
User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.4 (UNIX) Xref: pale-rider.INS.CWRU.Edu austin.food:5212 I have now had dinner at Thai Spice twice, and have enjoyed it both times. Thai Spice is at the corner of Parmer and Mopac, tucked away around the corner in an HEB shopping center. It has a lunch buffet which, according to my wife who's eaten there, is quite good, and she particularly recommends the Friday lunch buffet when they have more seafood alternatives. The entrees at dinner are possibly more "fancy Thai" than the Thai dishes I've had at other places. They are quite good though. I had the Ped Curry, which is grilled duck in a curry with potatoes, carrots, and pineapple along with other vegetables. For a two pepper dish, it wasn't very hot, and the three spice dish our friend had was certainly not sucking-in-air-to-cool-the-tongue hot. Dinner for three came to $47.00 without drinks, but with an appetizer. Entrees range from $9 to $15 and appetizers (we had mussels) are around $6.95. rajat