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.”
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