Darling and I were shopping at Macy’s and went to this corner restaurant for a quick and simple dinner.
We started with some hot soup, and when it comes to Thai soup, tomyam is in order. This Thai style hot and sour soup with sliced chicken, mushroom, tomatoes, galanga and lemongrass wasn’t what we expected, but we did adjust the heat to minimum. But it was too milky to our taste, as we were expecting a clear soup.
We ordered an appetiser, something we both like called Hoi Jor, which is a roll made with fried tofu sheet stuffed with shrimp, pork, crab meat and water chestnut and served with sweet plum sauce. It is identical to the Teochew appetiser of similar name called 蟹棗 or 蝦棗. And it tasted great with the Thai style sweet and spicy sauce.
Rad Na (also known as Lad Na) is a popular Thai dish of stir-fried wide rice noodles served with a thick, flavourful gravy made from fermented bean paste, stock, meat (typically chicken or pork), and vegetables like Chinese broccoli.
The noodles are quickly fried to get a slightly charred, wok-fried flavour before the rich, starch-thickened gravy, seasoned with ingredients like soy sauce and fermented bean paste, is poured over them. The dish is Chinese in origin and can be customised with different meats and vegetables, with the name “Rad Na” translating to “pour a sauce over something”. My favourite Thai noodle dish.
I ordered the pork noodle soup, my go-to comfort food that is very similar to Teochew kwayteow soup, with sliced pork, ground pork, sliced fish cake, fish balls, and bean sprouts in clear broth. The taste was really authentic.
I pickled the flat rice noodles, which Teochew called kwayteow. As there were many Teochew diaspora in Thailand, many of the noodle dishes have their roots from Chaoshan area. In fact you can still order in Teochew dialect if you are in Bangkok’s Chinatown.
And we ordered roasted duck with steamed rice on another evening. It was a generous serving of boneless roasted duck with yao choy (Chinese choysum blanched and oiled) topped with Thai style duck sauce served over steamed rice.
No frill restaurant that serves good Thai food. Our new get-to when we need a simple meal downtown SF.
King of Thai Noodle House
184 O’Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, United States
Tel : +1 415-677-9991
Visited May 2025
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