Paadee
Thai restaurant · Kerns ·
Inventive Thai dishes, craft cocktails, and buzzy atmosphere
Inventive Thai dishes, craft cocktails, and buzzy atmosphere
"Akkapong Earl Ninsom’s Paadee puts the spotlight on regional Thai comfort food and Isan food, including its Northeastern Thai plates and fleet of larbs. The dining room here is stylish and warm and great for a date; still, when it comes to Thai takeout, Paadee offers some of the city’s best, with things like exceptional som tum dotted with dried shrimp, the saucy-sweet eggplant dish pad makhua, and the tangy, porky noodle soup known as ba mhee phitsanulok. It’d be criminal to skip the restaurant’s mango sticky rice when it’s in season."
"Smack-dab in the middle of one of Portland’s great restaurant rows, Akkapong Earl Ninsom’s casual Thai spot is serving a dish not often seen in Portland restaurants. Featuring crunchy pork belly, slices of pork loin, and pork meatballs in pork broth, ba mhee phitsanulok is a massively pig-heavy, savory-tangy egg noodle soup that’s hard to forget. The addition of crunchy peanuts adds a nice textural contrast to the noodles and pork." - Rebecca Roland
"We're big fans of Paa Dee — I always order the same thing: pad kee mao with chicken, gluten-free, no egg; it's great, super filling, and all I need." - Thom Hilton
"Another of the chef’s projects that contributed to Portland’s reputation for strong Thai restaurants, frequently mentioned alongside his other influential ventures." - Rebecca Flint Marx
"As part of restaurateur Akkapong Earl Ninsom’s storm-response effort, I saw Paadee’s team, led by sous chef Somphong Kanyota, provide free community meals including rice soup and tom kha to help those who’d lost access to working kitchens or hours." - Janey Wong
