{"id":1576,"date":"2015-01-23T02:58:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T18:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2015-01-24T05:13:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T21:13:34","slug":"lotus-of-siam-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2015\/01\/lotus-of-siam-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus of Siam, Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lotus of Siam<\/strong><\/a> is described as being the best Thai restaurant in Las Vegas, if not the country – so, of course, we had to try it.\u00a0 After a failed attempt in 2012, we finally managed to get in in 2013.\u00a0 It was very good, but not extraordinary.\u00a0 Then again, Thai food is so good in general, that finding extraordinary Thai food seems like a Herculean task.<\/p>\n

Lotus of Siam has a huge menu, offering both traditional Thai foods, Issam and northern specialties.\u00a0 With so much choice, it’s easy to get lost so I asked for my waiters’ recommendation and ended up getting the duck on drunken noodle ($26).\u00a0 That was a mistake.\u00a0 The duck was OK, but the noodles lacked flavor.\u00a0 I liked them, but I didn’t love them.\u00a0 I would have been better off going with one of my favorites.<\/p>\n

One of the kids had the chow mein ($9).\u00a0 This was a lovely dish.\u00a0 It tasted like a combination of Chinese and Thai flavors, which were perfectly melded.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it wasn’t a large portion.<\/p>\n

My other daughter had the Pad Thai and this was phenomenal. The noodles had a welcomed smokeyness I’d never experienced before.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the portion was not large enough for me to get more than a taste.<\/p>\n

Mike had one of the special panangs. I don’t remember what meat he had, but the sauce was described as a panang with cognac.\u00a0 It was good, but it didn’t taste any different from a regular panang sauce.\u00a0 Still, he was happy with the dish, if not the price.<\/p>\n

The place was very crowded, it took a long time to get seated and service was competent but busy.\u00a0 In all, I think it’s a restaurant worth trying, but which cannot possibly live up to its hype.<\/p>\n

Lotus of Siam<\/strong>
\n53 East Sahara Avenue Suite A5
\nLas Vegas, NV
\nPhone:(702) 735-3033
\nhttp:\/\/www.saipinchutima.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Marga\u2019s Las Vegas<\/a><\/p>\n

Marga\u2019s Restaurant Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lotus of Siam is described as being the best Thai restaurant in Las Vegas, if not the country – so, of course, we had to try it.\u00a0 After a failed attempt in 2012, we finally managed to get in in 2013.\u00a0 It was very good, but not extraordinary.\u00a0 Then again, Thai food is so good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,28,110],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","tag-las-vegas","tag-reviews","tag-thai","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}