30 January 2010.. Evening

I was in the mood for Pad Thai tonight! You know what Pad Thai is.. Some Thai fizzy! so the question now was "where should we hit up some Thai Food?" Then suddenly I remembered something, yes!! awhile ago, a buddy of mines referred me to this one Thai food restaurant located off Carson st and the corner of Belflower but I couldn't remember the name. Fuck what was it??! errrrr! I ended up giving me him a call and  baaam! The name of the place is called PANVIMARN.  So off we were!

I was impressed from the moment we walked in.  Parking is located within the triangle of shops around the restaurant.  It might be tricky but you'll get it.  There were a lot of people but the wait was only about 5 mins.  We got seated on the 2nd floor and everything was good.  The setting was nice and the mood to the place was very chillax.  A good dining place to hang out with friends, talk, eat some good food and get a little tipsy off wine or something.  Another thing I liked about this place was that it had a 50" LCD I believe which was on the wall on the 2nd floor playing Fast & the Furious Tokyo Drift! haha..

Here's what we ordered:

 

Fish Cake -

Fish cake mixed with curry, Thai spices and green beans. Served with sweet and sour cucumber sauce.

Considered a Panvimarn Fave among customers and I can see why =)  These fish cakes were yummy!  The sweet and sour cucumber sauce complimented the Fish cakes with every bite.  Kinda balanced out some of that salty taste.  

Taste of Garlic Shrimp -

Ward off vampires! Shrimp sautéed with garlic, peppers, carrot and broccoli

My gf originally wanted a chicken dish but it was going to be spicy! One thing about their menu is that asterisk was suppose to represent Spicy dishes but pretty much everything else on the menu w/o an asterisk was spicy.  So my gf thought this dish was aiiiiiight, she's not much of a fan when it comes to spicy foods.

Pad Thai Special -

Fried Thai noodle with shrimp, chicken, bean sprout, onion, carrot, bell pepper, egg, and sweet basil with spicy special sauce

If you like Pad Thai, get this.. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT! ohhh wee! this was delicious! I'm not a chef remember, so I can't even describe it, but it was mad yummy!! get it and drop me off whatever you can't finish =)

Golden Fried Rice -

Fried rice with beef mixed with egg and curry powder.

 This takes out any other kind of fried rice I've had in awhile.. Better than Chinese food fried rice by far. It was shiny and very salty, but yet freak'n good! I did drink a lot of water with it.  Originally we were goiing to order the "Snow crab fried rice" but decided to go with this.  Now I'm curious about that Snow crab...  The taste of this beef fried rice will be a memorable one, and I can't wait to try it again. 

Espresso Ice cream

They ran out of fried banana so we settled for this.. ehhhhhh you can do better at a Cold Stone or even Dippin Dots next door.

Don't forget to hit me up when you guys plan to go to this place because I want more Pad Thai and Fried rice!

Panvimarn Thai Cuisine 

(562) 425-2601

http://www.panvimarn.com/