Northern Thai Restaurants

Eating establishments that offer the style of Thai cooking which features dishes with mild chili heat with sharp and sour flavors. Typical dishes include miang kum (an array of condiments such as fresh ginger, lime, peanuts, dried shrimp and coconut which are bundled into lettuce packets and topped with a sweet and salty sauce); kao soi (a one-dish meal of boiled egg noodles in a red curry which is made with chicken or beef in coconut milk topped with toasted egg noodles and served with a group of condiments including chili oil, shallots, pickled cabbage and lime which are added to taste); and gaeng hahng ley (a moderately hot curry of pork flavored with brown sugar, tamarind and fresh ginger).