Mee Thai, a bold street, checked

There are rarely many surprises in stock when you go to a Thai restaurant and it is part of my petition.

They may have house specialties, strange outside and random access to some current trends, but you really know where you are doing yourself and what you want to eat.

We all have our favorites, the dishes we make every time, carrying the spiritual bingo card “Best Pad Thai’s Eat”, “LAB League table”, “Tom Yam World Cup”.

It is an ongoing process, an ever -changing hierarchy of what hits every time that hit the toughest, and what was not the same last.

So when a new Thai place opens, I tend to go to the point and usually order familiar lines. When Mee Thai opened on Bold Street just before Christmas, it went straight to the list.

When Jimmy’s, a live music venue and bar site, the space is well suited for a lightweight and spacious restaurant with an open kitchen now where the bar was. I love to see that my pint is poured as much as the next person, but not as much as seeing dinner dance around Wok in real time.

The glass front offers a bombed church and a bustle of Renshaw and Berry Street, and it also offers passers -by when I found Tom Yum soup. It wins the billboard I think.

The space is decorated with all kinds of live interior, color and characteristic brands and posters that nod home. In other hands, it could have been overloaded and a small gypsum, unpleasant match from Thailand, but I think it is charming and very inviting.

I was sitting high on the stool next to the window and got a gaze to the set lunch store, deceptively generous two pounds of £ 12, and even though I’m always looking for fixed lunch stores (of course in the interests of our readers), this time I needed to see a few different things (of course).

First of all, always and forever, Tom Yum soup (£ 7.95). I’ve been stuck to this a few times, and no doubt injecting in the future, but it will make us well live in the present with open minds. I really take it to an excuse. I ordered it with chicken and inch Pattaya (£ 5,95).

This was not shy in Chili, who kicked me halfway on Bold Street, but is described on a scale of ‘a notch’ (1/3). So I would imagine ‘spicy’ (3/3) to carry you to the astral level. Real forehead. If I got cold, I definitely didn’t go with one. Great handing and ideal start to things.

Alongside the soup I ordered crisp Wontons with chicken and shrimp (£ 6.25 for six). Fried glassy sharpness, crispy and well -flavored, but juicy inside, they used a fantastic filling combination that may seem a bit strange to some – fish and chickens – but I love its greasy and tangy nature. Good addition to beginners if you have a company, but if you try to fight all six yourself, I will not judge.

I chose something that is actually included in the lunch store; Pad Pak Moo krob or stomach pork mixed with fried spring greens, oyster sauce, garlic and chili (£ 13.50). Veg was abundant – cabbage, Pak choi, bales, peppers, baby corn, beans sprouts, peas – and gave me a feeling of vague smoke that comes by eating something with more than one green thing. And to start lunch time.

I would say that the stomach was done perfectly; Crisp on top, grease in the middle, gentle at the bottom. Thanks to the broth of the oyster sauce, a little spice is needed, all of which it swims, which was stunning in the broccoli. An easy way to eat your greens, and if you order it from the lunch store, you are basically pulling your place. Really good.

I think a good salad side is one of the things that Thai food does so well. In the West, we tend to see the salads as some kind of healing, a hair shirt given to enjoy yourself during Christmas (shame for you). Either it or we all make them creamy and remove all the health benefits, so I just say what you want and look for award later.

In the meantime, the salads of the Southeast of Sea are bright, full of diversity and more piercing than the main courses of most other kitchens, so they are always worth the pop. Once again, I have had shocking papaya salads and I have had fantastic, it’s in the sauce if you ask me. It drowns in the ocean fish sauce for everything I care about, you are struggling that there are too many items. In addition, you can always balance it with lime. Mee Thailand som tum thai (£ 9.95) was fragrant, limey, tart and hit all notes. I would have just added more fish sauce.

It is never easy to come to what can be crowded on the market, in a city with a wealth of Southeast -Aasia restaurants available, and standing for your own merits. Mee Thai, like a new place in the block, does Sterling work. It’s a challenger right away from the bat, without fear of giving you Thai foods because they know that you like it, the spice levels and everything. In the Tom Yam World Cup, it is through the removal steps.

Mee Thai130 Bold Street, L1 4ja