Our friend Ruth called on Saturday wondering if we wanted to go our for dinner that evening. We were going out on Sunday and didn't really want to go our twice in one weekend (we go to California in two weeks so we're trying to watch the unnecessary spending!) but in the end we went. Paul suggested Thai food. We went to one of the best Thai restaurants in Burlington - My-Thai by the Lake.
When I first moved to Burlington there were no Thai restaurants. Now there are so many that they can be compared and rated! I had never been to My-Thai but many people like it so I thought that it would be good to try it.
It is now one of my two favourite Thai restaurants in the city (the other being Bhan Thai). Unfortunately I have no pictures; Paul put his food down when I mentioned taking some photos for the blog.
The restaurant is located downtown near the lake. We parked in the free parking lot (YEAH!) and after wandering about for a bit we found the restaurant. Its address is deceiving because it says it is on Elizabeth Street yet the entrance is actually off of Lakeshore. Oh well, we found it in the end and the walk enabled us to eat more.
Catherine was already there when we arrived. She was almost finished her first drink of the evening and had scarfed back an order of shrimp chips and sauce. oink! We had to rush to catch up, but we did!
We ordered 'family style' - that is to say we ordered a bunch of things and just shared.
To start with we ordered spring rolls and summer rolls. They were good although I thought the summer rolls could have used more filler. I ordered a lemon grass and chicken soup which was amazing. It had the wonderful combination of flavours that you find in Thai food: hot, sweet, tart lemon, and saltiness all in one spoon. We also shared a mango salad.
For our main course we ordered pad thai, basil beef, cashew chicken, pineapple curry chicken, garlic shrimp, and rice. The waitress cautioned us that we would have too much food. We just smiled at her; clearly she did not know that we had the finisher AKA Paul amongst us! LOL
The food arrived promptly and was very well prepared. The basil beef had an incredible heat to it that I really enjoyed. Sure enough we ate it all, in fact we did everything but lick the last tasty morsel from the plate.
The total for three appetizers, soup, mango salad, 5 main dishes, rice and drinks was $ 131 which was quite reasonable given the quantity and quality of the food.
I give this restaurant 4.5 out of 5 forks.
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