Chiang Mai Ultimate Thai Restaurant, Anchorage

At Chiang Mai Ultimate Thai Restaurant, it's all about finessing four fundamental flavors: hot, sour, sweet, and salty. When in balance, these elements forge the cooking styles common to Thailand and Southeast Asia––and to Chiang Mai Ultimate Thai Restaurant. The restaurant has recently revamped its lengthy menu, which is populated with a slew of curry, fried rice, and seafood dishes. Long, faux-marble tabletops on wooden legs bare steaming housemade soups, as well as morsels of fresh lamb, duck, and scallops over stir-fried noodles. After sopping up the last of a traditional curry entree, patrons can recline in a cozy velvet booth to enjoy homemade banana dumplings or build a log cabin out of chopsticks to avoid ever having to leave.