Conflicted: Pongsri or Pam Real Thai?

The HOchieS' may have found a new Thai place for all of us to try.

Great frenemies that we are however, we tried it without you all first to make sure it was even worth everyone's time.

It's a little bit of a haul from the office and is all the way on 10th Avenue and 48th St., and takes cash only.

We tried the food we would usually get at Pongsri except pineapple fried rice.

 Fried Taro Cakes

Even though a part of me is ruined for eating raw taro, I will still wearily eat it when presented in different ways i.e. cooked only.  I am happy that my brain is so stupid sometimes because the fried taro cakes were wonderful with lots of great flavour.

 Chicken and Mushroom Dumplings

The chicken and mushroom dumplings were our second appetizer.  I don't really enjoy chicken dumplings but again, they were well-seasoned and tasty with good texture.

We then tried a Thai sausage fried rice.  I'm not sure I liked the sausage that much but mainly because I think I am used to eating my lapchongs.

Thai Sausage Fried Rice

For once H1 was grateful for the cucumbers to cut the salt.

Next we went with chicken red thai curry.  It was not as sweet as Pongsri's but the flavour was amazing and more intense.  Pongsri lost that round.

 Thai Red Curry

We then ate a crispy fried duck and it was mega salty.  I prefer pongsri's duck due to the texture (and too much salt on PRThai's).  I know it said crispy fried duck but it was almost a wasted meal not being able to taste anything duck-like and to just have the duck fried to unrecognizable chewy bits of meat.

Ped Pad Grow (methinks) Duck - 

Sure looks good in that picture now though.

I did not get to try a dessert there, nor do I even know what was on the menu but that's okay.  There's always the next time! I did get a Thai Iced tea though and I liked it a lot.  It was good on tea and not too sweet to have the sensation of drinking condensed milk.

 Thai Iced Tea

I think right now Pam Real Thai might have a bit of an edge over Pongsri but needed to lay off the salt.  There are lots more dishes to try, so the next is question is when will we all go together to make a proper decision on which place is better?