Thai Style Restaurant.

"Thai Style Restaurant." That's the name of the place; pretty imaginative, huh? Mind you, the Monster's first exposure to Thai food was at "Nit's Thai Food." Maybe it's just restaurateurs (-teuses?) named Nitaya who have that flair for simplicity.

Makes sense, as the comfort-food simplicity is common to both places. Thai Style Restaurant manages flavorful stuff, but there's some kind of... excitement missing. Could the Monster be more vague, perhaps? Well, at Nit's and other places, the exoticism comes not from silver accoutrements and photos of women with pagodas on their heads, but from the joy of the Thai menu with its diversity and its synergy of flavors. Everything seems matter-of-fact with Thai Style's menu: bang, bang--there's this and there's this. That carries over to a kind of perfunctory preparation of many of the entrees. (By the same token, there are no stated options for spiciness; my panang was set to "default white guy" heat, more than manageable.)

Still, it's a Thai food restaurant on the Shore. A bad meal there is better than a good meal most other places around here.

Thai Style Restaurant averages $9 for entrees; refills on the humongous cups of soda are free. The restaurant is just shy of the WBOC Dover office on Rt. 13 (DuPont Highway?); look for the tall microwave tower, and be prepared to stop in the tiny driveway-sized parking lot.

Rar.

All of Salisbury and much of the surrounding area has quaked beneath my belleh. It is here that I shall tell others of my exploits.