I love good Thai food. What I love even more is great Thai food. In Manhattan, there are quite a few decent-to-good Thai restaurants, though the only one in the five boroughs I've been to that I'd qualify as "great" was Ayada in Queens.Aside from Ayada, the most memorable Thai I’ve had so far that easily falls under the "great" category is at Malee’s in Scottsdale, AZ. Granted I haven’t tried even a fraction of the menu, but one of the dishes is hands down one of my top 10 favorite meals – so that has to count for something, right?!Peter has been going to Malee’s for several years and vouched for it's deliciousness, so we’ve made a habit of going together for dinner before my flights back east from Phoenix. We tend to share an appetizer and two entrees, but even though so many things on the menu sound and look amazing, I can't help but order the coco chili fish as one of our entrees each time (it's the favorite I referred to above) - it's THAT good.Last weekend, we split the light and fresh rice paper vegetable roll (smoked tofu, rice noodles, mint, cucumbers, carrots and cabbage – with peanut hoisin and sriracha sauces), the spicy-sweet coco chili fish and a unique stir fry of shrimp and calamari with green peppercorns:Coco Chili Fish (flash-fried fish filet with coconut chili reduction)
Spicy Green Peppercorn Shrimp & Calamari Stir Fry (ground thai chilies and garlic sautéed with green peppercorn strands, shrimp, calamari, onion, Chinese broccoli and krachai)
With a light and crisp bottle of Gruner to go with and their usual great service, this was yet another fabulous meal at Malee's - maybe the best so far - and I'm already looking forward to our next return visit.
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