Sripraphai Menu

We updated the Sripraphai menu. The earlier one is still there (what happened to saute pork stomach and mudfish?); if memory serves, it’s from around 2003.

(I have no idea why the Sripraphai website isn’t the first Google hit but it’s not. I like New York Magazine as much as the next guy, but not only are their weekend hours for the restaurant wrong — they close at 9:30, not 10, which is why we had to get takeout — but if a restaurant has its own website, it seems odd that they’re not at the top of the Google hits, no?)

The restaurant has grown a lot since we first went there:

They added the storefront to the left (64-11 39th Avenue?) a few years back, and since then they added the storefront to the right in the picture (64-15 39th Avenue?). Yes, the Jungle Curry is still “Thai spicy.” The Sripraphai website also says that they’re opening a restaurant on Long Island soon.

Something that’s bothered me for a long time: If there can be an authentically cool Thai restaurant (or any authentic, accessible ethnic restaurant), why is there this brick wall when it comes to Chinese food? I hate, hate, hate the existence of a dual menu (or worse) and would be eternally grateful for a Chinese restaurant that not only welcomed adventuresome eaters but encouraged them. It’s especially striking that even in a place like New York there seems to be so few (maybe I’m wrong — if so, please email us!). You would think that they’d clean up. It’s not that there aren’t any great Chinese restaurants, just that more often than not you get the sense that there’s so much great stuff that you’re missing if you don’t read and/or speak Cantonese. Which is to say, I never got that from Sripraphai. Good stuff . . .