Radna Silom
Thai restaurant · Los Feliz
5321 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Highlights
Rad Na Silom lights up Thai Town nightly with sizzling wok-fired noodles like pad thai and rad na, serving up authentic Thai street eats for just $10.
Rad Na Silom lights up Thai Town nightly with sizzling wok-fired noodles like pad thai and rad na, serving up authentic Thai street eats for just $10.
"Rad Na Silom is kind of like a mirage: it appears nightly at 5pm to transform an entire half-block of Hollywood Blvd into a Thai street food kitchen before vanishing at midnight. But if you show up between these hours after a few drinks at Harvard & Stone, then, no, you're not hallucinating— Rad Na Silom is real. There's a short menu of eight noodle dishes, including some excellent pad thai and pad see ew noodles in savory rad na gravy. Sit at one of the sidewalk tables with your plate of steaming noodles and take in the eclectic late-night crowd as Adele covers blast from the sound system." - Brant Cox, Arden Shore, Nikko Duren, Sylvio Martins, Garrett Snyder
"LA has lots of great street vendors, but few of them put on a show like Rad Na Silom. Every day from 6pm to midnight, this curbside stir-fry station outside Silom Supermarket in Thai Town turns into a half-block of folding tables and string lights, sizzling woks, and speakers blasting melodramatic Sam Smith covers (they also make an appearance at Smorgasburg on Sundays). The stir-fried noodles you’ll find here are among the best in LA, from chewy wide rice noodles smoothed in rad na gravy to a saucy-but-balanced pad thai topped with handfuls of dried shrimp, ground peanuts, and bean sprouts. Everything on their simple eight-dish menu is just $10, and if you’re here Friday through Sunday, make sure to hit the outrageously good Thai boat noodle vendor that sets up on the same block, Mae Malai." - Brant Cox, Arden Shore, Garrett Snyder, Nikko Duren, Sylvio Martins
"Like a puppy adoption at a weekend farmers market, Rad Na Silom attracts a crowd. Starting around 5pm each night, this Thai noodle vendor sets ups outside Silom Supermarket in Thai Town, transforming a half-block of Hollywood Blvd. with a line of tables and a wok station that cranks out stir-fried dishes in minutes. It's a quick, convenient spot that makes some of the city's best pad thai and pad see ew while you wait curbside. Rad Na Silom is cash only and ordering is pretty straightforward: there are just eight dishes to choose from, made with either flat or thin rice noodles. Some, like the pad thai topped with bean sprouts and dried shrimp, get vigorously stir-fried in the wok, while others are smothered in a silky rad na gravy. If noodles aren't your thing, there's a single eggy fried rice on the menu, too. All the dishes here go for a reasonable $10 each, though we do wish the portions were a little larger—don't expect the mountainous piles of pad thai you might pay more for at one of the neighborhood’s many sit-down Thai restaurants. The crowd tends to vary between early evening and when the last orders are served around midnight. Earlier on, you'll usually see families, students, and software engineers talking on work calls between mouthfuls. Later, you'll see groups of seven having a bite after a successful happy hour and maybe one person in sweatpants picking up some mango sticky rice (the lone dessert) to go. The ambiance here is one of a kind: As you listen to the roar of wok burners and melodramatic Sam Smith covers playing on the sound system, you'll be hit with various appetizing odors—fish sauce, seared pork, and fried eggs—as each dish is cooked to order. Of course, it all smells ten times better late at night after you’ve had a few cocktails at nearby Harvard & Stone. Though it's the only street noodle vendor we know of popping up every night in Thai Town, Rad Na Silom is more than just a novelty. We suggest coming here whenever you want excellent Thai noodles on a budget but can't be bothered to wait for a table or skim through a menu that's a hundred items long. photo credit: Jessie Clapp Food Rundown photo credit: Garrett Snyder Pad See Ew in Rad Na This soupy, slippery noodle dish is probably not the best for sharing, or at least if you want to keep your t-shirt clean. But we don’t mind keeping this bowl of tender sliced pork and crunchy broccoli rabe to ourselves. The flat noodles are wonderfully chewy and come in a thick, gravy-like sauce that’s surprisingly light and has a peppery kick on the back end. photo credit: Jessie Clapp Pad Thai Rad Na Silom's pad thai is just the right amount of sweet, with some nice jolts of fish sauce and tamarind that push this dish into savory territory. The noodles themselves are chewy and saucy without being too oily, and come topped with a big handful of crunchy dried shrimp, bean sprouts, and crushed peanuts." - Sylvio Martins
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