Thai Restaurants in Malibu Beach

Employing exotic spices, fresh vegetables, and sweet sauces, the culinary experts at Singapore Express craft a full menu of authentic Thai cuisine including full-flavored curry and noodle entrees. Groups of two or four jumpstart palates with one or two appetizers, choosing between lighter selections such as steamed chicken dumplings and heavier subjects including deep-fried tofu and the meaning of life. Main courses vary in consistency from the broth-based chicken-coconut soup—a blend of swimming Thai herbs clinging to straw-mushroom buoys in a sea of coconut broth—to duck red curry served with steamed white rice. Table denizens can also rev up a stolid maw by imbibing signature dishes such as the Indonesian nasi lemak—a bed of rice cooked in coconut milk and crowned with chicken wings, fried fish, and a fried egg—or a spicy mint pork leg, which can be used to hold up a wobbly table.

LAttitude Thai features authentic Thai cuisine under the guise of sweet curries, savory stir-fried noodles, and hearty entrees served in a relaxed, casual atmosphere. The menu showcases innovative appetizers, such as chicken wings stuffed with ground pork, glass noodles, and vegetables ($8.25), as well as classic main courses, including pad thai with chicken and prawns ($8) and chicken-pumpkin yellow curry ($8.50), which turns back into chicken-stagecoach curry after midnight. Staunch hunger pains with a filling entrée, such as spicy lemongrass prawns ($10) or sweet-and-sour pork ($8) with pineapple, mixed vegetables, and a conflicting blend of dispositions.

Stylish and spacious, boraan offers a posh setting in which to enjoy its artfully prepared Thai dishes. The menu features the traditionally succulent suspects, flanked by a redolent lineup of fried rice, stir-fry, and red, green, and yellow curries. Meanwhile, the signature seafood rad nah adorns its noodles with flavorful shrimp, mussels, scallops, calamari, crab, and chinese broccoli in a garlic-bean gravy sauce ($17.99). A BYOB policy and no corkage fee, as well as vegetarian and gluten-free options, ensure that boraan not only meets all culinary expectations but also extends them a handshake and a collectible business card.

At Kah Asian Restaurant & Lounge, Chef Vit Suttichanond blends Thai, Japanese, and Chinese flavors into pan-regional cuisine that Easy Reader News has praised for its presentation and its approachable flavor combinations. Familiar Thai curries and noodle dishes fill most of the menu, although wok-fried orders of kung pao chicken and meaty fried rice lend distinctly Chinese touches as well. The sushi chefs also breathe new life into sushi-bar staples with inventive aesthetic details, such as the crimson slivers that explode from the center of the dynamite roll.

Sconce-lit walls and exposed ceiling beams surround the dining room's gleaming wooden tables. Separated by a line of high-backed booths, the lounge area's backlit bar brims with potent spirits and a collection of bottled sakes that diners can knock over in hopes of winning an enormous stuffed animal.

Outside of Arunee House, two giant signs and a dark-green awning bear the eatery’s MO: to serve up a mix of more than 100 Thai and Chinese dishes. The kitchen staff tosses chicken, pork, beef, or shrimp into six different types of thai curry and mixes chantaboon noodles with chili powder and sprouts to create generous portions of pad thai. Servings of spicy squid prelude the house-special vegetable plate, a cornucopia of snow peas, chinese cabbage, bamboo shoots, black mushrooms, and freshly weaned baby corn. Eaters can augment their meals with glasses of thai iced tea or finish things off with a dessert of sweet sticky rice with mango.

Typically, if one person wants chicken wings and another craves pad thai, deciding where to eat hinges on a coin toss or a quick game of Risk. Soo Raa Thai - American Chic caters to both tastes. There are patently Thai dishes, including papaya salads, red curries, and chicken satay with pickles. A charcuterie plate includes three kinds of Thai sausage, crispy pork skin, sweet chili sauce, and shallots pickled with ginger.

Western influences do appear, though, in exciting fusions including a Thai-style seafood bouillabaisse or fettuccine with chili sauces. All of this is washed down with an appropriately cosmopolitan range of beers, wines, and sake.