Thai Restaurants with Jokey Names

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In DC many of the Thai restaurants have pun names, like Thai-Tanic or Thai-Phoon. I expect that Thai-dal Wave and Thai Me Up, Thai Me Down will be next. The suburban Thai restaurants have sensible, dignified names, like Neisha Thai, Crystal Thai, Bangkok Siam, etc.

My question is, why Thai? Why not Vietnamese or Pakistani or whatever? The only theory I've come up with is that Thai is the new big food, the sushi of the aughts. Like when you're on a first date, and she says, in a calculatedly casual and disinterested way, "oh, I've really been into Thai food lately." It's said in the same tone of voice as "oh, I've been really into Serge Gainsbourg lately," so imagine that.

So Thai food is the thing, and it needs to be made less intimidating for those awkward first dates. Hence the funny names.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Or, it could be that the word "Thai" is especially suitable for puns.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the best Thai restaurants I know don't in fact rely on punny names...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, that almost goes without saying.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

ah phuket

― dave q, Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

From the Simpsons: YOU THAI NOW

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not Thai but there's a nasty Chinese place in Portland with a grebt skanky bar called Hung Far Low.

― chester (synkro), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai Me To The Moon

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai Me a River

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai a Yellow Ribbon...

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

OMG! I once sent a list full of these to the McSweeney's website and was rejected! Shame I don't have that on me; it was chock full of absurd ones, like "Thai One On" and "Black Thai Affair."

It was actually inspired by the fact that Chicago already has "Thai Me Up!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh god dave your comment was a billboard for Chino Latino here in mpls (a fucking insufferable "hot zone" restaurant in mpls.) Other super witty ads: "that wasn't chicken" "where's your cat?" "greatest insult to the Japanese since the California roll" (go all the way, timid copywriter: "since the Enola Gay") Eeurgh now it's prom season so the the intersection around it (a busy one) is clogged with fucking LIMOs (incl a WHITE SUV LIMO) and the sidewalk filled with teens in their formalwear (apptly it's cool for boys to do the Don Johnson thing)

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

The best Thai restaurant here is called The Siam Cottage. Now there's a lost pun opportunity.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 8 May 2003 16:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai Mai Shoo

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 8 May 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

There is one around called "Bangkok Blues," it I think serves some kind of fusion food and actually has live blues music, so it can't be considered a joke.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 8 May 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ned hates chow fun.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 8 May 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Shoo Thai Pai

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 8 May 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

i don't get it jess. splain for us dumb folk?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 8 May 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ned hates chow fun

You evil, wonderful man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 May 2003 16:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.800padutch.com/images/dhavenpie.jpg

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 8 May 2003 16:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

I wanna open a store called "Don't Patronize Me!" and watch how quickly I go bankrupt.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 May 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

The only theory I've come up with is that Thai is the new big food, the sushi of the aughts.

*blinks with surprise* DC has had good Thai food for one decade if not two. Yes, the DC area has a lot of selfconsciously hip Thai restaurants, but it's by no means new around here.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 8 May 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Live Free or Thai

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 8 May 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

a Bond themed Thai Another Day

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

(btw, all the Thai places here have pretty straight-up names; Pad Thai, Planet Thai, Bangkok House, etc)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai'er Maker

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

live and let thai

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thailand/Australian bar with big screen football?

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes, DC has had Thai for a long time, but it's my impression that the silly ones are new. And Thai is now in vogue, though it's been around forever.

Maybe it's just a regional thing. In college Indian food was the name you dropped to impress people, and sushi still held onto a little bit of hipness. Thai food was cooler than, say, Chinese or Mexican, but it wasn't what people drove 45 minutes to eat.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's actually a Thai restaurant in Chicago called Thai Twee. I'm pretty sure they don't use Hello Kitty plates or play the Field Mice while you dine however.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

thai a little tenderness

(Vietnamese place in Des Moines: A Dong)

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Diamond, where is Thai Twee?
...

I Just Thai'd in Your Arms Tonight

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Millions Now Living Will Never Thai

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai Kreuzen

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai Nibelungen

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thaitus Andronicus

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thaipe O Negative

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai'er Maker

Out on the Thailes

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

I Only Have Thai for You

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Lord of the Thai!

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

The hell this thread encompasses makes me want to swear off food.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, shut up and thai.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gypsy starring Thaine Daly

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh, God, it really is hell.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

That Concludes The Draw For The Third Round Of The FA Cup, Thais Will Be Played On The 7th, 8th, and 9th Of January

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai Diggs

Thai-Bo

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

henthai

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd eat there.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

From Seattle:
Phuket
The Thai-Ger Room

― JS Williams (js williams), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Movable Thaipe

― JS Williams (js williams), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I hear Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen wants to open a restaurant called She's Thait.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Win, Lose or Thai

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Night of the Living...eh, I got nothin.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

New game: see if you can find an IMBD photo more unflattering than the one they chose for Tyne Daly.

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/98/46/12m.jpg

She should sue.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Amateurist, Thai Twee is in Hyde Park on 53rd near Lake Park. Actually, I think it's the only Thai place in Hyde Park (which has at least 5) I've not eaten.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

these are the times that thai men's souls.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

There actually is a Thai Me Up in Edinburgh...

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

I had the Thaim of my life...and I never felt this way before...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Best of Thaims.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

ha, i just re-read this thread and realised jaymc already claimed one in Chicago first.

Thaim for bed.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

who ate all the thais?

― robin (robin), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai me kangaroo down sport

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mike Thaison Bites Ear...yeah that sucked, but I'm all out, and I'm still desperate to try to curry some favor. ;-)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Chris you are DCILXOR? look out for FAPs!

Thai-phoon is a chain and is also located at the Pentagon Square new urbanist downtown next to pentagon city mall (that is enough to put me off). the best thai in the DC area is Duangrats, with prices to match, but it is out in Bailey's crossroads way out in the burbs...

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

ok guess how I read that?

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, I guess I am DCILXOR...but I post like once a year. And I'm horrified to learn that Thaiphoon has entered Arlington.

Bailey's Crossroad's is way out in the burbs? It's like 5 minutes across the bridge! Traffic can be mightmarish, but for dinner it wouldn't be too bad. And if you shun Bailey's Crossroads, you're missing Neisha Thai, Peking Duck, etc etc.

Then just a mile or so up the road you get to Eden Center, which is an awesome Vietnamese "mall." You can smoke in the mall!

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thais, Damned Thais, and Statistics

― Aaron A., Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Shouldn't that be 'Stathaistics'?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

though I suppose thai sticks make it something else entirely.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thaitus Andronicus

JBR, believe it or not, this was on my rejected McSweeney's list. (They didn't know what they had, the bastards!) Along with Thai Cobb and Thai-ger Woods (unless Woods decides he wants to own Black Thai Affair instead).

Also, for a ballpark vendor: Thai Goes to the Runner
Caterer at Elton John concerts: Thai-ny Dancer

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

And: Thai Waits For No Man

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai Me Kangaroo Down Sport was my suggestion. Sigh.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ha, so it was! But I didn't understand what you were on about - I am an idiot. Sorry.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's a "Swing Thai" here, I can't tell if its supposed to be a pun. Its an obscure one if it is.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've always liked the Vietnamese food at Phat Phuc.

― alex in montreal, Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I ate at Swing Thai last night! It was good.

― Mandee (keckles), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

If at first you don't succeed, ThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThaiThai Again.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

There is No Thai

― Aaron A., Friday, 9 May 2003 01:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's a Thai restaurant near me called Before and After. I don't get that one.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 9 May 2003 02:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

THAI-RONAN

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eat Shit and Thai!

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Moor's Last Thai

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thais and Whispers

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Beau Thai

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai Society

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

haha slutsky

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai Noon

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

(thais and whispers)

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eat Shit and Thai!

Eat Thai and Shit!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai Plains Drifter

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

thai restaurant at the shore -- "high thai'd" or "time and thai'd waits for no man"
casual thai restaurant -- "no thai required"
s&m thai restaurant -- "thai me up"
thai restaurant w/ martial arts theme -- "billy thai bo"
axl rose's favorite thai restaurant -- "pretty thai'd up"

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Romy and Michele's Thai School Reunion

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Rock 'n' Roll Thai School

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'll stop now.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Life's a Bitch and Then You Die, That's Why We Get Thai

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

...And You Will Know Us By The Thai That We Fed

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Won Toe Thai Toya Thai Ya Thai

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

(the Fremme Ne-Pad Thai-Nette is my favorite dish there)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Purple Rose of Thai-ro

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Some of these are great names, really.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai To Remember

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

gary numan's favorite thai restaurants: "everyday i thai" and "i thai, you thai"

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

(psst JBR, can't believe you didn't say it!)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Secrets and Thais

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kino-Thai

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

I thought you said you were going to stop?

Strict Thai
Thai-ing in the Rain
Horatio, I Thai!

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

don't thai for me marge and tine

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

I tried to stop, but it's hard to switch that part of my brain off once it gets rolling.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

david bowie's favorite thai restaurant: "black thai white noise"
bruce springsteen's favorite thai restaurant: "the thais that bind"

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

You Thai Like A Kite

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gang of Four's new Thai joint: Enter-thai-nment

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 May 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai, the Beloved Country

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 04:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Boys Don't Thai

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 04:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

(*ahem* Appe-Thai For Destruction *runs and hides*)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 9 May 2003 04:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Boys Don't Thai

Finally. Lesbian separatist ethnic cuisine.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 9 May 2003 04:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

favorite thai restaurant of teenage russian lesbians: thai-tu

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 9 May 2003 04:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

thai gone bling-bling: Thai-Pac

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 9 May 2003 04:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fusion cuisine: Eye-Thai!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 May 2003 04:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

There is a Vietnamese place in the LA area called My Dung. Proof!

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 9 May 2003 06:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's a really good restaurant in Baltimore called Thairish, Derived from the fact that the owners first name is Kerrigan, and somebody told him that it sounded Irish.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

nobody's mentioned the thai stall that goes round all the british festivals (inc Glasto): Good Thai Dins

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

it took me abt two years to get the good thai dins "joke"...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 9 May 2003 07:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

off topic yes but there is a Chinese place in Worcester called Ho Toy. Chris you are welcome to FAPs.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 9 May 2003 22:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai Thai Mon Cowboy

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 23:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Danger! Thai Voltage

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 9 May 2003 23:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wanna Get Thai?

― Aaron A., Saturday, 10 May 2003 01:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

*thai*

― Aaron A., Saturday, 10 May 2003 01:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hello Good-Thai

― Aaron A., Saturday, 10 May 2003 01:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

ThaiXorz

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 10 May 2003 04:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

When Come Back, Bring Thai.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 10 May 2003 05:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

We're Proper A Thair

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 10 May 2003 05:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Respect My Authori-thai?

I'm sorry, that's only even funny to me because I've been drinking

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 10 May 2003 05:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thai Sharona

― Aaron A., Saturday, 10 May 2003 05:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

(I kept mulling that last one over myself)

― slutsky (slutsky), Saturday, 10 May 2003 06:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

we've got a knack for this. GOODNIGHT!

― Aaron A., Saturday, 10 May 2003 06:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

This was almost done earlier:
Thain' Daily

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 10 May 2003 06:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ready to Thai

― slutsky (slutsky), Saturday, 10 May 2003 06:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

We Have All the Thai in the World
Once Bitten, Twice Thai

― bert (bert), Saturday, 10 May 2003 13:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Green Hills of Thai-Rol

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 10 May 2003 15:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

eleven months pass...

REVIVE IMMEDIATELY

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:34 (twenty years ago) link

i'm still immensely proud of my work on this thread!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:45 (twenty years ago) link

mine too!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:52 (twenty years ago) link

highfives?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:54 (twenty years ago) link

THE KING AND I

― Acid! Polizei! (ex machina), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:54 (twenty years ago) link

highfives?

salut!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:55 (twenty years ago) link

That Thai Cobra place is out of this world.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:59 (twenty years ago) link

I'm a few blocks from 3 Bow Thais on Smith St. in Brooklyn.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link

(I probably wouldn't get that one if I hadn't thought of it. It's the best I can do.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link

i don't get it!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago) link

Tycho Brahe (sometimes pronounced "bra"), astronomer :)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 02:12 (twenty years ago) link

dude had a silver bridge on his nose, y'know.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 02:18 (twenty years ago) link

now that's elliptical!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 02:21 (twenty years ago) link

somewhere in southern cali there is a vietnamese restaurant called
pho-shizzle, or at least i heard there was.

― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 03:31 (twenty years ago) link

There's a Thai restaurant where I live called Thai-Coon.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

There was restaurant called Beau Thai (as someone suggested above) in Portland, OR. Portland had (has?) lots of restaurants with awful pun names, including a Japanese place called Miso Hapi. There was also a steak house with a King Arthur theme called Sir Loin's.

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link

Miso Hapi!Hahahaha!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

lest we forget "hung far low"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago) link

Portland is/was also home to "Casa Que Pasa" and "Casa-U-Betcha."

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago) link

and "honkin' huge burritos"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago) link

And Macheezmo Mouse!

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass...

thai hard

― s1ocki, Saturday, 26 January 2008 00:59 (sixteen years ago) link

6 Million Ways To Thai (Choose Won)

― never acid again, Saturday, 26 January 2008 03:38 (sixteen years ago) link

six months pass...

Thai, Thai, Thai My Darling

― s1ocki, Thursday, 7 August 2008 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link

There is a place in Wells Maine called Yum Mee. The website is http://www.yummeefood.com/

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 7 August 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.schemamag.ca/images-entry/pho.jpg

― phil-two, Thursday, 7 August 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link

and the forever classic:
http://soupytrumpet.com/uploads/2008/02/phobichnga2.jpg

― phil-two, Thursday, 7 August 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link

ha! i thought todd was bullshittin upthread.
xpost

― Granny Dainger, Thursday, 7 August 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link

Pho-gettaboutit

― o. nate, Thursday, 7 August 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link

Thai Away Home!
small chain of thai restaurants in vancouver - but no one ever questioned or made fun of the name or even thought of it as a jokey name, which is weird. i guess b/c it was inexpensive and good. don't know if they still exist.

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 7 August 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link

i never ate at pho bich nga but have been past it on the bus a lot - exists

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 7 August 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link

what city is it in?

― phil-two, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link

vancouver too

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link

That reads like it's the original Vancouver's new branch store on the other side of town

― nabisco, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link

haha all suburbs should be named like cheesy-clever hollywood movie sequels

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link

the funny thing is that pho bich nga is only a few blocks away from burnaby
which is basically vancouver too

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link

two years pass...

because i got thai

― the milagro-beanfield war criminal (s1ocki), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link

thai thai birdie

― just sayin, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link

yes, siam

― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link

Siam I Am

― Aerosol, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link

Bangkok Farmers' Market

― Mo Tucker Mo Problems (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link

Tongue Thaied

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link

Chris Peaduck

― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link

my thai

― a fucking knitted scarf (another al3x), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link

there's also a place in baltimore run by a guy who is half thai and half irish and it's called thairish

― a fucking knitted scarf (another al3x), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link

horrible.

― the milagro-beanfield war criminal (s1ocki), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link

Pho The Love of Yummy
Pho Better Chews

― Darin, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link

Thai-Pod

― yookeroo, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link

Thaime After Thaime

― dayo, Thursday, 23 September 2010 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link

Spanish-vietnamese fusion:

Pho Tonto Rapidos

― rammer jammer jan hammer (Hurting 2), Thursday, 23 September 2010 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link

Thai Is Never Thai Enough

― dayo, Thursday, 23 September 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link

thinkin about opening a restaurant called thai game where we serve green curry deer and panang pheasant and so on

― a fucking knitted scarf (another al3x), Thursday, 23 September 2010 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link

Pho The Love of Yummy
Pho Better Chews

there's a combination phở shop/laundromat around the corner from my house called Phở Sure.

― Underground - Parking (2010) (sic), Thursday, 23 September 2010 07:37 (thirteen years ago) link

There's a Thai place that gives portions so generous you always wind up taking huge amounts home:

Thai Again Tomorrow

― rammer jammer jan hammer (Hurting 2), Thursday, 23 September 2010 11:23 (thirteen years ago) link

there is also thai landing and thai one on

― IRE is the most intelligent open forum on ILX (harbl), Thursday, 23 September 2010 11:31 (thirteen years ago) link

There's a posh place that serves only squid based meals.

Black Thai.

― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link

There's a Thai place that gives portions so generous you always wind up taking huge amounts home:

Thai Again Tomorrow

― rammer jammer jan hammer (Hurting 2), Thursday, September 23, 2010 7:23 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

thai another day

― the milagro-beanfield war criminal (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link

Is Thairish still around? Owner is not in fact half-Irish -- he told me he made up the name and then came up with the story.

― Three Word Username, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link

oh its such a good name, great idea

― glengarry glen "ross from friends" (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link

There are at least two places called "Old School Thai" in London.

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link

colombian neck thai

― glengarry glen "ross from friends" (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Australian/Thai fusion; Thai Me Kangaroo Down Sport

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link

Star Wars themed: Thai Fighter

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link

Potentially racist question.

Speaking broadly, is there more joking around in Thai culture than other Asian cultures? Because not only are the names of Thai restuarants jokier than their Chinese, Koran, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Nepalese ounterparts in my area, but the proprietors of these establishments are also much jokier than their counterparts.

― Excluding Skits and Such (Eazy), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link

(er, Korean, not Koran)

― Excluding Skits and Such (Eazy), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link

Dude you have no Koran.

― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link

gah xp

― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link

Hahaha, "Dude, You Have No Korean" would be a good one.

― rammer jammer jan hammer (Hurting 2), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Don't Taze Me Pho

― rammer jammer jan hammer (Hurting 2), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Pho Q

― ledge, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link

What would you name your Vietnamese restaurant?

― Aerosol, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link

Suggest Banh

― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link

...And I see that joke was made like five times on the earlier thread. Captain Fucking Obvious for the win!

― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link

Is Thairish still around? Owner is not in fact half-Irish -- he told me he made up the name and then came up with the story.

― Three Word Username, Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:59 AM (7 hours ago)

it is around but no one goes there

― IRE is the most intelligent open forum on ILX (harbl), Thursday, 23 September 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/2610198845_b6b0820d2e.jpg

^ this is some kind of genius imo

― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Friday, 15 October 2010 11:15 (thirteen years ago) link

there is, or was, a chinese place I used to see signs for sometimes called "Hard Wok Buffet", which I liked because it was right on the borderline where you can't be 100% sure it's supposed to be a pun

― rmde and dangerous (bernard snowy), Friday, 15 October 2010 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link

used to be a "Beau Thai" in Clapham, iirc. Multilingual wordplay.

― bham, Friday, 15 October 2010 12:30 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

colombian neck thai

― glengarry glen "ross from friends" (s1ocki), Thursday, September 23, 2010 11:02 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link

slow day eh slocks

― Nhex, Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link

I'm on a train

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link

I'm Kurt Cobain

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link

thairish is awesome, best pad thai. i witnessed the chef turn away some tourists one day like he was the soup nazi.

― (╯︵╰,) RIP (am0n), Thursday, 4 October 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link

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