"Redditors also love the Khao Soi, which has a spicy, fragrant coconut-based curry broth with egg noodles and is one of 23 traditional Thai dishes you should know about. The Los Angeles Reddit community is also a fan of Spicy BBQ's generosity in service, portions for the price, as well as the liberal heat levels, with one Redditor saying that "the women who run that place are the nicest.""
"Not only a darling of Reddit, the restaurant is favored by celebrities as well, including music producer and cookbook author Benny Blanco, who took a Los Angeles Times writer there on a food crawl in 2024. Spicy BBQ was written about in 2008 by the late, great restaurant critic, Jonathan Gold, who was a pillar in Los Angeles culinary culture, where he specifically highlighted the restaurant's nam prik oom, a fragrant and mind-blowingly spicy condiment famous in Northern Thai cuisine made fr"
Spicy BBQ sits in Thai Town in East Hollywood and operates as a compact, hole-in-the-wall Thai restaurant. The menu displays photo-heavy plastic pages with spicy barbecued meats and classic dishes like Pad Thai, but the kitchen specializes in chile-laden Northern Thai plates such as Northern larb and jackfruit salad. The Khao Soi features a spicy, fragrant coconut-based curry broth with egg noodles. Diners praise generous portions, low prices, liberal heat levels, and traditional pork patties. Celebrities including Benny Blanco have visited. Jonathan Gold highlighted the restaurant's nam prik oom, a fragrant, mind-blowingly spicy Northern Thai condiment.
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