of mojitos and other madness: nakhon kitchen

having gotten so used to the fare and proximity of thai noodle house back when g was at bukit timah, this girl honestly hasn't been as equally happy with the alternative thai food choices over in the eastern end of singapore. i mean, there are options but no one particular place has yet managed to make me feel that i've discovered the thai noodle house of the east, as it were. my last post on the thai table, probably comes the closest but they still don't quite make the cut for they don't serve up the oh so classic thai beef noodles! so when g suggested heading over to this newly spotted corner thai joint bedok, i immediately said yes, secretly hoping that this new discovery could potentially be the place that we've been looking for!

snuggled in the corner of block 133, nakhon kitchen apparently is no stranger to singaporeans, with a steady queue already established on the corridor when we got there at about 7.30. the queue did seem to move fast and a quick recce of the cafeshop revealed that the first sitting of diners were finishing up. they did a good job with managing the crowd, occupying the patient diners with menus to plough through and an order prior to seating practice. our wait was about 30 minutes and typically i would have told g we'd come back another time, but seeing the dishes steadily streaming out of the busy kitchen (plus the queue!), i have to admit i was curious.

our tom yam soup, stir fried morning glory and grilled pork took a good 45 minutes to get to us. was it worth the wait? well...the food was pretty good. g and i polished up the fresh veggies, indulged in the crispy yet tender morsels of pork dipped in yummy thai chilli sauce and drank up most of the soup, in addition to polishing off the prawns, sotong and fish within! we were hungry but i do have to give credit to nakhon kitchen for whipping up quite a decent thai dinner and at pretty competitive prices too. the only down side, aside from the wait, is that both g and i had quite massive msg attacks post dinner. that for me, immediately was a bit of let down as the food was really pretty authentic.

thai noodle house still wins....with thai table settling in second as an alternative joint in the east.

if you guys know any good thai places...do shout yah?

sawadeekah!