Thai food suffers the same fate as many other cuisines when it comes to a city the size of Boston: Most restaurants try to squeeze an overview of the entire country into one menu, resulting in the ubiquitous jumble of pad thai, build-your-own curries, and other noodle and rice dishes quite familiar to American diners but barely scratching the surface of any one specific part of Thailand.
The cuisine of Thailand’s Isan region in the northeast, for example, is significantly different from the street food of Bangkok, and ideally, there’d be plenty of separate restaurants focusing on each instead of just serving a couple highlights from each area.
Fortunately there are a growing number of Boston-area Thai restaurants and supper clubs, such as Gaaeng, that do specialize a bit more. Here are some of the best Thai restaurants in the Boston area right now, with some pointers on what to order at each.
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