Best of Phoenix: Siamese Kitchen

Siamese Kitchen in Phoenix, Arizona

Not an attractive place and not a very busy place on a Monday evening, but this is the New Times Best of Phoenix winner for Thai Restaurant. The Siamese Kitchen does offer some great cooking. I had the Tom Ka Kai, a chicken with coconut milk soup that was served with plenty of chicken and mushrooms. I asked for medium, and like a good Thai restaurant should be, medium is other restaurants’ hot. My main dish was the old standard Panang. I asked for mine with chicken and to make it Thai hot. Now, typically, when a white guy orders hot or Thai hot, I think the waitresses have come to believe we are showing off or do not really understand what we are getting ourselves into – not Siamese Kitchen. Not only were my eyelids sweating profusely, but my shirt was darkened with sweat from my collar down nearly to my belly button before I realized my hair had started dripping. What does it take to make hair sweat? You’ll find Siamese Kitchen on the Northwest corner of Olive and 43rd Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona.

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