Review: Bangkok Tom Yam, PJ Old Town

23, Jalan 2/23, Seksyen 2,
46000 Petaling Jaya (North)
Tel# 03-7782 4469 / 016-916 3182

Since this was couzzie's hood, I entrusted him with finding us a good dinner.  Although this place appeared on a must-eat list, finding it proved to be quite difficult because for one, it is literally a corner house. And this is it's only signboard. No, really. No where is it displayed that they are actually a restaurant. It didn't help either that we were there a bit early for dinner so nobody was there (yet).

 The women running the place were probably amused because we were already parked at the intersection and were trying to figure out the place because Google Maps said we had reached already. There just happened to be another Thai restaurant directly diagonally across this and we almost ended up there instead.
This place certainly depended much on word of mouth to stay in business.

 Kerabu chicken feet skin. So sinful but it does hit all the right notes. Sweet and sour, slightly spicy too. This is one dish that Americans would only eat in Fear Factor but Asians, oh boy, do we love them or what. It's especially good with thick crunchy skin.

 Stir fried kailan with salted fish which ended up being quite salty but great with the plain white rice.

Their call to fame: tom yum which is unlike any I've had before. For starters, it's more gravy/sauce than soup with its thickness. Lots of lemongrass and tomatoes to give it a very sour aftertaste. My untrained palette found that it tasted almost similar to those ready-made curry paste. Fish was fresh but not worth the price we paid for. 

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