Los Angeles: 24 hours of Thai

Even savvy Thai food lovers will discover dishes they have never heard of before. 

After a lifetime of eating Thai food, “I thought I had a pretty solid gastronomic background in the genre,” said Katie Robbins in Saveur.com. But when I moved to Los Angeles recently, the city’s large Thai population introduced me to “facets of Thai cooking that I hadn’t known existed.” Forget waiting until lunchtime to start sampling Bangkok-inspired street foods, Burmese-style stews from the north, or fiery-hot dry curries from the south. “You could spend 24 hours eating nothing but exquisite Thai food in L.A.”

Sapp Coffee Shop Start the day here with Thai iced tea and boat noodles, a soup that “takes its name from the boat people who introduced the dish on the canals of Rangsit.” It is an “earthy, funky” Southeast Asian equivalent of menudo, “teeming with all manner of offal, making it a true protein power breakfast.” 5183 Hollywood Blvd., (323) 665-1035

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