The best way to familiarize oneself with a different country's culture is to spend 10–15 years in one of its maximum-security prisons, but the second-best way is to taste its cuisine. Learn about Thailand with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of authentic Thai fare and drinks at Thai Dish. This Groupon is valid for dinner at the Portland location only.

Chefs at Thai Dish draw on authentic recipes to concoct a menu brimming with exotic flavors, adjusting spiciness levels according to diners’ personal tastes. Customize stir-fry, noodle, curry, and fried-rice dishes with chicken, pork, beef, or vegetarian-friendly ingredients ($8.95) or sprinkle in shrimp or squid ($9.95) to sate seafood cravings. Thai and chinese eggplant incite splash fights in fragrant lochs of coconut milk laden with sweet basil in red, green, and neon curries. The Thai kung pao stir-fry propels bell peppers and peanuts down bamboo shoots and into a pool of house-made chili paste, and the specialty Thai barbecue pork jets boiled egg and chinese sausage through the rich canals of a special gravy sauce ($9.95).

Spare, elegant décor combines with tabletop blossoms to accent the spacious dining area’s lipstick-red booths and glue-flecked chopstick houses. Kaleidoscopic ropes of light lace a shingled awning over Thai Dish’s bar, which irrigates arid palates with frosty bottles of beer and a selection of voluptuous wines.