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\ LIVE MEXICAN ENTERTAINMENT

oR 1200 Lonsdale Ave. (at 12th) Morth Vancouver,B.C:
fa : recommended at 985-TACO or 985-8226 |

Offer span to kids 12

and under, some

* Capilano Mall ~ Matine & Fell — North Vancouver.
« Lynn Valley Centre.

Krua Thai Restaurant, 1445
Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver

.. 990-9349, Visa and MasterCard
- accepted. Open for dinner;
_. Tuesday to Sunday. Open for

lunch Tuesday to Friday. Licensed
io sell beer and wine. Vegetarian
options? Many. Take the kids or

call a babysitter? You could do

either as iong as your kids like’
Southeast Asian adventures.
Menu for tonight:

* Thai Spring Roll with Vegetables
($4.95)

* Hot and Sour Soup with King
Prawns ($6.95) .

i .* Green Curry with Beef ($8.95). °.

© Stir-Fried Vermicelli with Peanuts

“ and Seafood (38.95.

° Beef with Ginger rand Garlic Sauce .
( $8.95) - on

“PiTH HELMETS on, fellow .
diners: a Southeast Asian .

safari i is on the menu tonight.

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: * enjoy one complimentary entree
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(3650 Capilano Road
“North Vancouver

| | 937-3388

Le ee

Timothy —
Renshaw |

hopping

Travel time, however, should be
relatively short, depending upon
where on the North Shore you are
*~ stationed, because for the first time
in recorded Table Hopping history,
the North Shore has a restaurant fea-

~-turing the exotic cuisine of Thailand.

‘. And not a slipshod house of faux
Chinese fare either. The real Thai
stuff all the way. A fiery Amen to
that.

»,Onward, then, i into adventure. ;
‘Krua Thai opened in August in
the Lonsdale storefront previously

~ occupied by Janoor, a small parvey-

or of Mediterranean-style cuisine
that bloomed in 1991 but departed |
earlier this year, the victim perhaps
of local Mediterranean overload.
Krua Thai faces no such cial-
lenge. It is a culinary pioneer rather

: than a follower.

its owner. Kit Pangsaeng, foriier-

: ly of the Chili Club restaurant in

Vancouver, and Bangkok chef .
Sanong Palapol. face instead the
challenge of educating North Shore
diners to the subtleties of Thai cui-
sine, And if a mid-August Table -

"KIDS FOLLOW THE
WATER SAFETY-RULES

DO YOU? -

MoTHER INDIA ~ a
TAKE OUT Foops Lr.
Indian Cuisine of Distinction.

vie Delivery $2.50, :
- $3.50 Deep Cove & West Van

‘ g, Curty Dishes -

“(behind A&W) Spm-10pm

~ OPENING SPECIAL 55%
Lamb, Beef or Chicken ‘

* 900 W. 16th, North Van (16th & Marine) .-
* Fax: 986-5546

oskiaded |

Hopping experience is any indicator

of that Far Eastern education, the

two will need a larger classroom.
The 30-seat Arua Thai was.

packed then, and will surely stay that: °

way as word-of-mouth endorsement
steamrolls,

Table Hopping adds its own
endorsement herein, for whatever it
is'worth: anyone interested in sam-
pling one of Southeast Asia’s great

~ cuisines should secure a table at”
Krua Tanai, ©

Though only just opened on the.
night of our initial sampling and still ©
operating with its spastan first menu,
the restaurant delivered a first-rate:
showcase of Thai cookery. woe

' Not the overbearing lemon-griss

". fuelled assault on the'senses that ~

some Thai restaurants spring upon
the unwary Westemer, but a sensu-

_ ous marriage of coconut milk,’

coriander, chili; garlic and tamarind.”

Our sampled Hot and Sour Soup
for example, was a clear fish broth
spiced with red chili peppers, lemo
grass and cilantro. It packed the hot
and sour flavors of the more familiar
Chinese version but with far more.
peppery punch and floral comiplexi-.
ty. With four jumbo prawns included
in the pot, there was more than
enough for two.

Krua Thai dishes are’available in”

“degrees of spiciness that range fro

mild to hot. Novices should be fore.
wamed: the top end of the Thai hot
chili scale is; indeed, hot. . 0.00.) cs
' But. as, the sampled Green Cunt

"with Beef showed, there is much

more than just a spicy bite to Thai

- dishes. Complex and subtle flavors

abound.
See Krua ™ page 4

- WINE SPOTS

IF YOU’ RE getting ir into the wine fes

tival . frame , of. mind, mark * do:
Saturday, Sept. 30, on your event c
endar and prepare to taste wine for

| HENCKEL KNIFE

at regular price
get the “second at

good cause.: (Tasting wine ‘is alway:
. fora good cause, but this is doubly so.)
|. «The Bacchanalian Wine Festival
now in its sixth year, raises funds for.
the Bumaby Assuciation: for . the
7 Mentally Handicapped. m
> Last year the festival raised ove
$25,000 toward programs” and, ser:
vices that include child care, residen-
“tial facilities, vocational training and"
3 advocacy for mentally handicapped
people. |
The festival kicks off at 7, p. m.'at
_ the’ Sinclair Ceritre, at Granville and
_ Hastings in Vancouver, More than 40
wineries from the Pacific Northwes
region, ‘including some of the excit-.
ing new smaller+wineries. emerging :".
in B.C... will be proffering their. best
‘plonk for your enjoyment, along with . ’;
vsnacks. catered. “by the Raintre :
Restaurant, fo
"There will be ‘entertainment an
auction items to bid on if you choose.
A fall night out, Tickets are e $60, Call.
299- 7851 fo order :

: "equal value cr less