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A few months back we unleashed unto to world the two volume set Thai Funk Volume 1 and Thai Funk Volume 2 . Originally released as limited CDs by ZudRangMa Records in 2009, our vinyl-only editions sport newly remastered audio, double LPs housed in nice ‘n’ heavy “Tip-On” Stoughton jackets with rare album covers, download cards, PLUS hand-stitched cloth bags. Style for miles and flavor for days. If you don’t have these yet (both pressings are nearly sold out), then here’s your chance to pick up both volumes for the price of free. You’re welcome.
For your chance to win, leave us a comment below with your name and email address (kept private). Tell us about your favorite Thai dish, restaurant, band, city, etc. Let us know what you’re thinking! Winner picked at random and announced next Friday, 3/16 at 12PM PST.
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Seattle lost a unique Thai restaurant, Thaiku, only a couple of months ago. Where now will I wrap bat cha plu leaves around dropfuls of toasted coconut, lime, peanuts, ginger, chili, and onion? And their yohimbe cocktails were sublime. So sorry to see them go.
Thai funk, please!
Favorite Thai experience. Hitchhiking in the back of a local family’s pickup truck near an elephant sanctuary outside of Chiang Mai.
I remember when I was a young University student and we would go to go to dinner at Sala Thai in Fremantle, Western Australia on occasion. The Plaa Neng Boey (whole fried fish with a plum sauce) and the Mu pad phrik king (pork with runner beans) were a couple of special dishes.
Now I live west of Kobe in Japan and thinking of Thai food has made me hungry!
I need some Funky Thai Food!
Thai Siam in Crown Hill Seattle never fails to remind me of the first time I tried Thai food. Sometimes a good chicken sataay is all I need.
Hiya Thai food anything with coconut:)
My parents lived in Bangkok in the 50′s – anytime we went to a Thai restaurant and had a few drinks my Mom would recall (very loudly!) the smell of street food and opium drifting down the klongs. High Thai times ma!
Vientiane Asian Market Place, Portland Maine. The place in which I had my very first Pad Thai.
Appetite Portland describes is this way: “It’s a small Asian convenience store plopped on a patch of cracked cement and brittle grass. Awning – faded. Pepsi sign – peeling. Inside, the proprietor’s daughter obsessively plays a noisy, hand-held video game. In the sweltering 90-degree August heat, the low-ceilinged market cum restaurant smothers with sticky air and spices.”
We have a restaurant here in the Minneapolis area called “Spice” that is good, and of course spicy. I have come to enjoy peanut dishes with a bit of an extra kick with them.
If the vinyl version is half as good as the cd’s (and how could it not be) this is an amazing set.
In my neighbourhood in Toronto there is an amazing thai/fish and chip place… It’s called Vicky’s Fish and Chips/Sue’s Thai Kitchen. The restaurant encapsulates everything I love about Toronto. Plus you’d be surprise how good a Halibut and Chip goes with a pad thai on the side (drunk).
Super cheap prices, and less than a block from my house. I love this place.
In Tucson, Char’s Thai rocks, but I am sure not as much as these wonderful records. Remember when you were in your teens and your favorite concert was coming to town, so the week before you listened to their music and you couldn’t wait for the day of the concert to come! Well, that is the way I feel, everytime that I get one of your records! So, you can help me relieve my childhood! .Thank you!
The first Thai restaurant in Atlanta is still open. The matriarch of the place likes to come around to your table and regale you with very stale old jokes.
“…’Howard by thy name.’ Get it? Like, not hallowed, but Howard.”
Once I walked in when she had no customers. She was sitting at the register in tears, which she sheepishly wiped away, and started asking me had i heard the one about…
I have vivid memory of my Thailand trip even if it’s been more than a decade ago. It couldn’t be more different than a winter in the middle of the wood in Quebec. Now Thai food is only in dream but bring on the Thai funk.
Charlottesville doesn’t have a great Thai place. We do have one place that has fish swimming in an indoor “stream” though. gross right? I don’t eat there. BUT I do enjoy eating Thai anytime I head to Washington DC. Thai FUNK? Now we’re talking!
When visiting Seattle a few years ago, I stumbled across Siam on Broadway – mind-blowing spring rolls and perfectly spicy curry made this one of the places I’d recommend to others visiting Capitol Hill. Just found out it’s no longer open, so I’m gonna have to stick with my new favorite restaurant in Madison, WI – Ha Long Bay fuses Thai/Vietnamese cuisine expertly. And they serve a monster spring roll that brings back memories of Siam on Broadway.
Favourate Thailand memory is proposing to my wife in Phuket when we went last year (we got married last October and no, I didn’t make that up to try and win some LPs!)
Thailand is easily one of the best places on earth
My mind was melted, twisted and blown by the trio of Thai roots and funk you cats brought state-side a year or so ago – if these discs are half as good, I’m already excited …
I’m always a sucker for Chicken Pad Thai. There’s a place in Albany, NY called Capital Thai that has always been delicious! When they first opened they had a hand written sign on the road that simply said “THAI FOOD”. I thought this was adorable since they were surrounded by neighboring strip mall stores, Home Depot, etc… Their Chicken Pad Thai is DYN-O-MITE!!!
Panang curry at Thai Tom in the U District, though I am lamenting the absence of Thaiku in Ballard where you could get awesome crab rangoon and wash them down with a mind-altering Yohimbe cocktail. Would love the Thai Funk records. Thanks Light in the Attic.
Love Tom Kai Gai and Massaman Curry with funky lady sauce! Kob Kun Krap, Dan
I love the Tom Kha Gai and anything with Lemongrass – Cafe Siam in Metairie, LA or Green Leaf in Hammond, LA
Back in the early ’80s, when WFMU held its amazing record fairs in a church basement, I once bought a few of these sort of LPs from a Vietnam vet who brought them back from S.E. Asia. His were rock mostly: a couple Venture-esque surf guitar sides with strange female backing vocals, a couple with (obviously) strange covers of popular rock (Doors, Simon&Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, The Carpenters (really!). A couple were just band Thai pop, but with way out cover art. Long gone from my hands, tho, for I was a jazz snob back then.
I’m a huge fan of Thai curries. Some of the best are from a place called Swaddee Thai. This little place is across the street from one Thai restaurant and a few blocks away from another, but as far as taste goes, Swaddee is the clear winner.
My fiancee just purchased his first property this year and we have a camper on it and are living in it as our primary residence. Is he still eligable for the credit? Any feedback much appreciated! Thanks!!