Thai Food in Columbus

One of the foods that I dearly loved while living in California was Thai food. We actually had Thai "belly stops" around California that we ate at when we were traveling but regularly ate at Sala Thai, http://www.salathai-restaurant.com/, in Fremont when we lived there and a couple times after we moved to Pacifica. But the best Thai restaurant in the Bay Area, in my opinion, is Sirayvah Organic Thai, https://webpos.wlinformation.com/Sirayvah-Organic-Thai-Cuisine/.

I have now eaten at two Thai restaurants in the Columbus, although the last one says Chinese and Thai and the first one certainly served both what was purported to be both Chinese and Thai food. I discovered the first one through a Groupon Coupon, Basil Thai, http://www.basilshortnorth.com/. I've eaten there twice with the last time getting a dish "Thai Hot." It was spicy, almost too hot even for me. Others eating with me got mild and thought it was too spicy, but that is the nature of most Midwest tastes.

Today, a day I should have been out riding my motorcycle but wasn't because of a need to do laundry, (I would have gone to buy more clothes but my storage is limited and someone wants to "help" me select them and she is working.), I decided to try "Chi Thai," http://chithairestaurant.com/, a restaurant sign I had noticed in a strip mall on my travels up and down Hamilton Road north of Morse. Chi Thai, which I was pronouncing CHEE Thai, is actually CHEYE Thai in deference to their Chinese and Thai cuisine.

While I didn't go through their entire dinner menu, in which some of the appetizers were obscured by their lunch special insert, I didn't notice any obviously Thai dish, one that featured Thai basil, limes, or a peanut sauce. While the Hot & Sour soup was truly as good as some of the best that I've had in Chinese restaurants, the Hunan Chicken wasn't as spicy as I expected and the sauce tasted as if it had caramelized just a bit too long. The saving grace for Thai was the Thai Ice Tea. I had to pay extra for it, since it wasn't a lunch special option, but so far it has been the most authentic Thai anything I have had since California.

I will just have to keep looking for Thai food.