Sanamluang Cafe
Los Angeles, CA 90027-6131
Phone: (323) 660-8006
- Price:
- $
- Cross Street:
- N Normandie Avenue
- Hours:
- Daily 10:30am-3:30am
Editorial Review for Sanamluang Cafe – by Martha Burr
The Scene
Sanamluang is comfy and casual, with Formica tables, bare white walls and a patio in the parking lot that's perfect for cooling off on a summer day with a tall Thai iced tea. Thai Town locals and dressed-down hipsters pack the tables, observing the last frontier of seedy Hollywood Boulevard.
The Food
Big bowls of Thai noodles are what make Sanamluang a must on every local chowhound's list. Sure, pad thai has a spot on the menu, but strike out boldly and order the unheard-of noodles like #37, spicy beef noodle soup with succulent beef tendon. Indian curry noodles, #44, makes a warming winter dish, and duck stew noodle soup is rich, greasy and filling. Garlic lovers swoon for the famous fried garlic and pepper with shrimp over rice, aka #64. Appetizers, like fish cakes, are particularly good. The koo chai, a steamed rice dumpling filled with chives, evokes a grassy aroma of summer on your tongue.
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User Reviews for Sanamluang Cafe
03/19/2008 Posted by divine01
This place is the best!! The food is good, and very inexpensive. Greasy spoon kinda place. I love their papaya salad!! Curries, pad thai, ALL GOOD!!
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02/04/2008 Posted by alyssawestmeyer
I'm still looking for a comparable place to Thai Nakorn in Stanton on Beach/Chapman. I really thought this would be the one. It's really just more like Thai fast-food. It wasn't bad food, but they only use dark meat chicken (it's not clear on the menu). We also ordered pad thai and it came with a lovely strip of completely raw chicken mixed in the noodles. Good thing we mixed it before we ate or we'd be quite ill today. The waitress didnt' seem suprised, but took it back and gave us a new entree. Very low prices, but I'd rather pay a little more...unless I'm drunk at 2am and hungry for some quick Thai.
