{"id":5163,"date":"2015-07-16T18:55:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T02:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/?p=5163"},"modified":"2015-09-04T10:11:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T18:11:16","slug":"pai-northern-thai-kitchen-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/pai-northern-thai-kitchen-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Pai, Northern Thai Kitchen in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyle took me to Pai, a Thai restaurant with a basement entrance that reminded me the student pub at UBC, The Sub. The dining room was big and the lights were dim, but ambiance was energetic with a younger crowd starting to fill up the space. Despite of the lack of artifacts or decors that reminded us being at a Thai place, the food was quite remarkable, showcasing some great flavours of Northern Thai cuisine.<\/p>\n

We started with a couple special cocktails. Kyle’s Tea Ross ($9) was a boozy version of Thai ice tea. With the usual creamy content replaced by Khalua and Cream de Cacao, and a shot of Vodka sneaking in your blood stream. My Lowry ($11) was filled with exotic aromatics of lemongrass, mint, basil, lime, etc, and the final touch of lychee juice had really sent me off the to a happy place. Sipping on those drinks seemed to reminisce about the good times of me lying on the beach sipping a tasty drink in Thailand. Wait a minute… I have never been to Thailand! But I guess I got the idea what it was like. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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lowry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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tea ross<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I loved how they aciphex over the counter <\/a> served Miang Kung ($14). The idea was to make wraps with chilled tiger prawns, fresh betal leaves, and a variety of condiments: ginger, garlic, lime, chili, roasted coconut, roasted peanuts, coconut sugar, and tamarind sauce. The presentation of the dish included a sample wrap, which I found quite smart. I think all DIY wrap dishes should be served this way. \ud83d\ude42 This dish was so simple, but all the flavours were there and it was a fun hands-on dining experience.<\/p>\n

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miang kung<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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miang kung<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I think the word ‘Platter’ was a little confusing in Sai Ua Platter ($14) – it was more like a whole dish with different components: veggies, protein, and rice, with the the protein being some grilled pork belly sausages with fresh tumeric, kafir lime leaves, lemongrass, garlic, and shallots. The sticky rice had a great texture, but the greatest part of dish was the northern Thai relish that contained oyster sauce and shrimp paste, with some intense flavours, binding all the components together.<\/p>\n

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sai ua platter with northern Thai sausage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pai, Northern Thai Kitchen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Website:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.paitoronto.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Map and other reviews:<\/p>\n

\"Click<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kyle took me to Pai, a Thai restaurant with a basement entrance that reminded me the student pub at UBC, The Sub. The dining room was big and the lights were dim, but ambiance was energetic with a younger crowd starting to fill up the space. Despite of the lack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[211,97,174,220,148,171],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_6881.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5163"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5486,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions\/5486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}