Healthy Living
Thai Place Restaurant
www.kcthaiplace.com
Westport
4130 Pennsylvania
(816) 753-THAI
Ann Liberda, owner of the Thai Place Restaurants, is a very beautiful and elegant woman. To look at her and to visit with this lady is pure refinement. She exemplifies the perfect balance of hard work, intelligence, and beauty. This also holds true for her Westport Thai Place location.
As with each of the restaurants, behind the simple, yet easy to remember, name and the doors of each location, you find a completely different world. The world inside Thai Place, Westport, is a reflection of the beauty of Thailand. It is quite a change from the regular midwestern restaurants. We have many chain restaurants, fast food joints, barbecue, and your typical meat-and-potatoes meals but to find elegance and authenticity in the middle of the U.S. is quite a treat. This is especially true for those like myself who travel and get to experience various cultures and flavors for we sometimes desire something different. In my opinion, this is their most extravagant location.
I was greeted by a very courteous host who led me through lovely table settings similar to those I saw in La Jolla, California, where the dining is very fine, and I walked on beautiful wood floors and plush carpeting. The original oil paintings, marble and jade statutes, and opulent décor visibly spoke exquisite Thai.
Fit for royalty, the waiting area with its posh solid wood seating and genuine artwork beckoned for me to recline just to experience how kings and queens must have felt surrounded by such lavish furnishings. I actually did do so although there was no waiting that evening.
To complete the ambience, a beautiful wood arch bridge led the path to another large dining area. As I walked the path of the bridge, lush foliage created a natural setting as if in an Asian garden. I could tell that every detail was considered in the planning and creation of this restaurant.
“I’m feeling pretty good about myself right now,” my friend said as she sipped her Thai iced tea. I knew she was feeling pretty regal at the moment also. All this and the meal hadn’t even begun!
Thai iced tea was a refreshing surprise for we were used to American iced tea. Like freshly plucked tea leaves mixed with a hint of sweetness and a type of cream. I tasted a touch of coconut in the cream. Perhaps not, maybe the authenticity of the entire experience led me to believe there was coconut in the cream. I can’t remember another drink that tasted so exotic yet so comforting and familiar. What a great blending!
Coconut Shrimp with crispy sweet potatoes could have been a meal in itself and not just the appetizer. The shrimp was huge and incredibly fresh. The sweet potatoes were lightly battered and a nice change from the usual French fries that accompanied most meals here.
Bangkok Bay Scallops were so fresh they melted in my mouth before I had a chance to begin chewing. The mild flavor of the scallops was kicked up by the addition of Thai Place Hurricane Sauce. Don’t let the name fool you for although Thai sauces can be extremely hot, the staff prepares it according to your liking. The appetizer, the scallops, the sauce, and the ambience were just enough “oomph” to take the meal over the edge of this continent.
Surrounded by a feast fit for a king, luxurious furnishings, authentic artworks of royal families of Thailand, I experienced an evening fit for a king, or should I say, a queen!
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