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In the Papers – Saturday August 30th

Here’s a round-up of the food & drink articles in Toronto’s papers today…

National Post:

Globe & Mail:

Toronto Star:


3 Responses

  1. Mary Lynn says

    Whew! I got the Simpsons reference. I would have been quite shamed if I hadn't.

  2. C. Mintz says

    I didn't even think of "embiggened" as a Simpson's reference. It's just a good word.

  3. Christopher says

    Ooh, Gina Mallet makes me mad, as in crazy like bat-shit crazy. Her inference that true pad thai doesn't contain "chinese bean sprouts" is dead wrong, in at least as many plates of the stuff I've eaten while in Thailand. And I have the pictures to prove it Gina Smarty Pants of Know Nuthinville.

    What's more, having recently been to Mengrai Thai for a friend's birthday dinner, I can wholeheartedly tell you that Sasi's food bears little resemblance to the well balanced, florally fragrant, hot-sour-sweet-salty deliciousness of thai food prepared in Thailand. Sasi's food is indeed sweet, but mostly sickly so. Oh, and try getting a properly made drink at the place without getting up to make it yourself.

    As for good (read the real deal here) Thai in Toronto I have but one recommendation: Sukothai on Parliament, directly acroos the street from the first phase of redevelopment in Regent Park. The owners there are from northern Thailand as well, but perhaps more recently so, as their memory of what true Thai tastes like is on point.

    It's hardly the type of place to sit and linger, but do yourself a favour Gina dear; get ahold of one of their menus, pick out a few things including the tom zap (hot and sour beef soup), and the pad thai, give 'em about an hour or so before you bother going to pick it up, and I promise you'll likely not embarass yourself again by writing another dumb-ass review of yet another lame-duck Toronto Thai restaurant.