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Great curry takeaways! $30 for one portion, $45 for two people.

Barbecued sticks dipped in their sauces are excellent. I ask for extra sauce then simply pour it over some mixed veg that I might be cooking.

Walking down Back Street (towards Main Street), it's clear that this establishment is popular with Chinese daytrippers at weekends.

Barbecued sticks are excellent. tomyumkung is good too. i love all the food there!

The word is <I>satay</I> (สะเต๊ะ).

Yes, I was thinking of mentioning the same thing. The sticks tend to be somewhat difficult to chew and digest.

Satay, in its many variations, is usually quite yummy ... tastes like "more".

I'm beginning to think that visiting or living on Lamma is worth it just for the food.

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The best and most varied satays I've found were in Bali. Satay fish, pork, beef, goat, vegetables, fruit....

Is THE SATAY not the peanut sauce that is used to dip the bbq meat kebabs into

They do a very good chilly sause as well.

"Kebab" is the Turkish version. Most likely it came to Thailand via Arabic traders through Indonesia.

Anyway, the peanut sauce is called "satay sauce". The whole dish is called "satay", at least that's what you get in the various parts of Indochina when you ask for one.



See also a <a href="http://home.pacific.net.sg/~willows5/singlish_S.htm#satay">Singlish dictionary</a> which claims it's of Chinese origin, though that's disputable. Chinese claim to have invented everything.

Oh, I thought that was the Russians (during the bad old days, that is ... now they're into the even-worse old days).

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Is this place still going and do they still offer the same sauces?

I am opening a restaurant (well involved with opening) in North Yorkshire (UK) and coming back to Hong Kong in a few weeks time to go on some cookery courses. Anyhow the milder of the 3 sauces had an amazing taste wouldn't mind getting hold of the recipe while I am in HK.

Quite happy to pay and wondering if anyone can sort us out an introduction?

The rather loud Thai lady in there sounds like she could sort you out if you made a fuss. Her Cantonese is especially colourful.

I thought the food was a bit greasy - and not Thai spicy - more Cantonese style. The condiments on the table do not appear to be replaced often.

I didn't try the Satay - maybe that was OK - based on previous comments.

Overall, cheap and (I was going to say cheerful, but then I remembered - I shall call her "Bertha").

Nice village feel to it though.

curry - decent, meat sticks - decent, prices - decent.......papaya salad - seriously addictive!

and yes, the Thai lady is cool

My favourite photo of the cool Thai Thai Lady (on the left), during the Thai Lantern Festival with her daughters and relatives.

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Abundant - Noodle with Chicken, Basil and other vegetables in thick sauce is excellent !

We are their regulars.

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Ah,Satay perhaps of Tamil origin ? !

Happy to learn.

After another very tasty lunch there yesterday, the owner told us that they're closing this location this weekend! They'll move and hope to reopen after mid-Nov in Wang Long, somewhere between the Yan Yan store and Granny Chan's.

As this is almost half way to Hung Shing Yeh beach, they'll lose a lot of their local regulars, I'm afraid, even though the Lamma visitors will still find them on their way to the beach or the Family Trail.
But we'll be missing their tasty takeaway dinners, young coconuts... too far away in their future Wang Long location for a stopover on the way home....

Thai Thai's landlord upstairs is taking the place back and will open another Chinese café in due course.
Memories of Lamcombe being taken over by their landlords spring to mind, the landlords hoping to make more money by running it themselves but not succeeding at all so far.

Well, no more 20-people queues down back and across Back Street on weekends, waiting for their signature satays - a real money spinner at $10/stick. No more visitors littering, loitering and dripping the satay sauce all over Back Street, blocking all traffic at this bottleneck.

But even their yearly Loy Kra Tong lantern festival celebrations in mid-Nov - when the owner and her daughters dress up like beautiful Thai princesses in stunning, gold-covered dresses, releasing floating lanterns into the sea from the YSW ferry pier - might not be celebrated by this family and their many local relatives this year, the matriarch says, as they'll be in the middle of opening their new location.

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Thai Thai has reopened in their new location just below Granny Chan, 1 Wang Long Village.

Anybody tried it yet?

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I haven't tasted the Thai food yet at their new location, although I WAS very happy with their food on the main street.

I live close to Granny Chans and I used to call this the 'shop on the corner' and it was somewhere where I would just dump my bags on the way home, crack open a cold beer and sit and chat and drink with the locals (very wonderful and informal.... bit like the Lancombe.)

And the owner of the store was a lovely lady who even though we couldn't fully communicate due to language, we always had a good laugh. It was also nice sitting there and having the locals try to teach me Cantonese

Last week I decided to do the same so I went into the 'new place with new owners'. I wasn't hungry but was happy to sit down for a cold drink. At first, I thought the place was closed, as the 'greeting' was very cold. (in fact there was no greeting.... it was a case of 'what do you want'! Then I asked if I could take a beer from the fridge and decided to just wait for the locals and read my book in the meantime.

Beer was expensive IMHO (30% more than previously) and I never once felt welcome. Even though I sat there for 10 minutes and tried to make polite conversation, not one person (there were three people there who are staff/family??) could be bothered. I just felt like I wasn't welcome. so I won't be going back.

I had an overwhelming sense of being an intruder in someone's living room.

The place has no soul yet. They need to change and be a bit friendlier. At first I was happy that I had a Thai place nearby, and a place I could drink and socialise, and have a Thai take away - but my first impression was negative.

They're used to having a busy Main Street (almost) business, not a "neighbourhood" style hangout.

Their old place certainly had no room for people to just sit around if they weren't eating, so they wouldn't encourage that.

Maybe they'll unwind as they adapt to the new location.

We've stopped by for a late but very pleasant lunch in the new Thai Thai. This is actually a much nicer and more comfy location than the former one, outdoors, under trees, a bit like Beer Garden. Even in the middle of a weekday afternoon, the only three tables were full with tourists.

The food is still great and authentic, see some of our favourite dishes below, Gai Lan with salted fish, frog w/beans and their famous Chicken satay, really yummy with amazing spices, but not too hot, even for local tastes, washed down with a young coconut. They saw that my coconut seemed a bit off, even though it tasted fine to me, and replaced it immediately.

After a long and pleasant chat with the matriarch, in Cantonese only, Lamma-Por found out that they'll be leaving this location soon, trying to find a permanent home. Anybody knows a place fit for a restaurant, they're eagerly searching.

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