There are a number of Thai restaurants in the area which are good but not great. My favorite Thai restaurant /by far/ is Chatthai 92 miles away out in Pahrump. We had high hopes after reading the reviews for Nittaya’s. It is 45 miles away in a beautiful modern building and has a great menu and great wait staff. The first thing I noticed was they have both Shishito Peppers and Angel wings on the menu – 2 of my favorite things. They also have some unique items on the menu not commonly seen elsewhere.
I have only seen shishito peppers at upscale Japanese restaurants. These were supposed to be charred with garlic and scallions. Angel wings are tough to find – probably because they are hard to make. You take a chicken wing and carefully dissect the upper arm bone and meat keeping the skin intact. Mix the chicken with some pork, onion, veg and re-stuff it back in the wing. Fry it up and you have a strange looking egg roll. This by itself is worth the 92 mile drive out to Pahrump.
All in all it is the best so far in the Vegas valley but takes the Silver medal when compared the Chatthai kids in Nye county. It is a bit spendy (as we say in Minnesota) but we will go back as there are a number of other things on the menu that need to be tried.
