TOI serves LA's healthiest Thai food using all fresh veggies, no MSG or preservatives. All dishes are cooked fresh to order and TOI offers to-go orders and free delivery. Besides the rock-and-roll-inspired scene, standard favorites like pad thai draw in crowds and dried chili-cashew nut melds cashews and barbecue sauce with cabbage, onions and hot pepper entrees are incomplete without the famous TOI brown rice.
Emporium Thai Cuisine serves more than 80 authentic Thai dishes for lunch and dinner. This restaurant, located just South of Wilshire, offers very friendly service and a cozy, decorative atmosphere for dining. The menu is marked for spicy dishes, which can be served mild on request, and has a special selection of vegetarian dishes. Lunch combo specials are available and orders can be placed online for express lunch table service. Desserts available include homemade ice cream, Thai custard, lychee nut, fried banana and sweet sticky rice. Thai iced tea, coconut juice and boba drinks are served along with beer and wine. Delivery is free with a minimum $10 order.
China Beauty is a cash-only Chinese fast food restaurant that offers noodle and rice dishes. You can get hefty plates of food with shrimp, chicken or beef and vegetable sides of your choice. The restaurant offers Thai iced tea for Southeast Asian flavor and horchata to cater to the neighborhood's Latino community. There's even a small American menu for those with a craving for hamburgers.
Lollicup is popular for its boba tea drinks. It also has frozen yogurt smoothies. It sells appetizers such as dim sun and fish balls and has Chinese cuisine such as garlic chicken. Parking is available at the bamboo plaza. You can mix flavors to create your own drink. The popular drink is boba milk drink. Popcorn chicken is the most sold appetizer.
Sine 1989 Pink Pepper Thai has been feeding Hollywood-area diners. The theory here is that enjoyment of a meal is as much about the atmosphere and the company kept as it is about the food. Hence, elegant art adorns the walls and soft music plays over dinner. Find large statues of Buddha and traditional Thai sculptures and paintings all over the inside of this building on La Brea Ave, and a great people-watching view on the outside patio. In addition to traditional Thai dishes like Pad Thai and Panang Curry, Pink Pepper serves up unique new concoctions like th Jungle Curry and Gulf of Siam. Full bar available, as is delivery to three-mile radius with minimum $15 order. Ordering online recently became possible.
