Jane D.
Yelp
Siam to Go (located inside the ice rink, behind the school) is probably the best Thai to be found on the island -- and it isn't even the only Thai place around. :)
Lots of pros, a few cons.
Pros:
- They use a lot of good, fresh vegetables, in their dishes. Fantastic!
- They also use a lot of protein in most dishes, i.e. noodle and curried dishes. We found portion sizes of main course dishes to be quite generous.
- If you ask for spicy, you get spicy...
- Some of the food has a smokiness that might even be authentic wok hai. Even if that good smoky flavor isn't from a sizzling hot wok, its subtlety is quite enjoyable. They don't bonk you over the head with it like some restaurants do.
- They even use some fish sauce in some dishes, where appropriate. The food is nowhere near being as gringo as they could get away with being, in a place like Nantucket.
- A beef teriyaki appetizer was on the small side for the price, IMHO, but it was tender and delicious, reminding us a lot of the Malaysian meat jerkies we know and love in NYC.
Cons:
- If you ask for spice level 1, dishes still come fairly spicy -- too spicy for our kids (who are accustomed to eating south Indian food with a bit of heat). Actually, a dish that we asked for at spice level 1 was nearly undifferentiable from one we asked for at level 3...
- A chicken satay appetizer was, like the beef teriyaki, on the small side for the price (three small, verrrrry thin-cut pieces), and was fairly bland -- but it was tender.
- Like a lot of otherwise good Thai food in the US, including in Boston, a city with excellent Thai food, everything was excessively sweet -- far, far sweeter than would be the norm in Thailand anywhere, and not properly balanced by acid and heat.
- Along the lines of criticism as the prior point, the peanut sauce and nam pla were both nasty, industrially-produced syrups, essentially.
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We're lucky enough to have some truly world class Thai restaurants nowadays in NYC, especially of the Isaan persuasion. If this point of reference is helpful: Siam to Go doesn't quite meet that standard of stinky / spicy authenticity, but the Thai-American food it serves is of often-high quality and enjoyable in its own right. It's so great to have this as an option on ACK.