Thank You Indian Restaurant

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And I have no doubt that another dish will be better at Thank You than at S&S, which I also like but for different reasons. Post something positive on the S&S thread if you feel strongly about it. The two places have very different menus, and there is plenty of room in Hua Hin for both of them.

Threads like this are generally more useful if they are positive. Why would you want to talk down one restaurant in favour of the other unless there was a serious issue at stake, above and beyond personal taste over one dish? (A dish that I'm not sure Thank You offers)

I was at Thank You late on Friday, and overall I think it's the best Indian restaurant in HH.
Personally.

It has the added advantage of being a short walk from Bintabaht.

EDIT: While there are some things that S&S does better (mainly because Thank You doesn't do them), naan bread is not one of them.

Yeah, I was hoping that it was going to be just as good as well as I have to drive from soi 7 to S+S, which I do once a week.

I love naan bread and I always order this with an indian meal and S+S naan bread is way, way better than Thankyou India - so I don't care about eating everything on the menu to find out which dishes are better at one place over another.

[dtaai-maai]

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Post something nice on the S&S thread.

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Post something nice on the S&S thread.

I have left them a review on trip advisor already - looks like its each to his own at thank you india - if you like those naan breads more than S+S I might have to give it one more try to see if they were having an off day.

[TimandT]

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Thanks, T&T. I wasn't a huge fan of 'Thank You' but ate there about once a month. Now I know not to go.

I'm American so maybe my taste is different, but why is S&S so popular? I ate there once when it was near down town and it was uninspiring. Does it taste like 'English' Indian food? I'm not taking the p*** at all, I'm just puzzled. I usually ate Indian food at lunch buffets in Seattle, WA where many Indians (mostly software engineers) ate. S&S, and 'Thank You' for that matter, would have died there. HHAD seems to love S&S. It's cheap and unpretentious compared to say, Maharajah, but is it really good? Did I go on an off night?

(It only took seven years but I got 200 posts!)

[crazy88]

SS pretty good IMO. Tend to cook curry at home rather than take away. Naan I just seem to not be able to crack despite many attempts.

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[hhfarang]

HHADFan, if it's cheap, that trumps good with a lot of people here. The great thing is that there are a few places that are both!

[pharvey]

SS pretty good IMO. Tend to cook curry at home rather than take away. Naan I just seem to not be able to crack despite many attempts.

Crazy 88

Naan is the b*tch!! You need the tandoor!!! I wish!!

[Homer]

I'm American so maybe my taste is different, but why is S&S so popular? I ate there once when it was near down town and it was uninspiring. Does it taste like 'English' Indian food? I'm not taking the p*** at all, I'm just puzzled. I usually ate Indian food at lunch buffets in Seattle, WA where many Indians (mostly software engineers) ate. S&S, and 'Thank You' for that matter, would have died there. HHAD seems to love S&S. It's cheap and unpretentious compared to say, Maharajah, but is it really good? Did I go on an off night?

No, you didn't go on an off night. You have a different experience and expectation of Indian food than the majority on HHAD. I had the same reaction to S&S you did. Posted this a while back:

India has 28 states and their immigrants have spread around the world. I don't know what 'Indian food' is, just what it is called in a few countries that are not India.

Just returned from Malaysia and Singapore which the guide books say have mostly southern Indian food. Except for the bread, the food at S&S bore little resemblance to the Indian food in Malaysia or S'pore. Ditto for Indian food in America. Compared to both those, the Indian food at S&S is nothing more than a sauce for dipping naan. Is it safe to say that S&S serves what non Indian people from England call Indian food?

I love the bread at S&S. They wouldn't last 6 months in Southern California. I'm just as sure there are many So Cal versions of other countries foods that wouldn't last six months in any town from Soho down to Brighton as well as the towns The Who didn't sing about.

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HHADFan, if it's cheap, that trumps good with a lot of people here. The great thing is that there are a few places that are both!

But Brits eat a lot more Indian food than we Americans do. I really wondered if S&S tasted like 'back home'. I'm not a snob about taste, I just wondered why it is so popular, since to me it was just 'okay'. My question is, does it taste like English Indian food back home? I've never been to India so I don't see myself as a judge of 'authentic' Indian food at all. I'm not even knocking S&S - it and 'Thank You' were about the same to me. Not bad, not great, but if I want Indian food...

To anyone who's even tried to make naan,

[HHADFan]

I'm just as sure there are many So Cal versions of other countries foods that wouldn't last six months in any town from Soho down to Brighton as well as the towns The Who didn't sing about.

Thanks, Homer and LMAO as well.

Different expectations absolutely makes sense. A young Indian engineer started me eating Indian food, but he didn't say "This is crap but it's the best thing I can find around here." As far as I knew, that was Indian food.

[Terry]

One thing's for sure, no matter where you eat Indian food in Hua Hin, you will NOT get the authentic shitz that you DO get, if you eat it in most places IN India.............

[Big Boy]

My question is, does it taste like English Indian food back home?

IMHO that's a definite no.

[johnnyk]

Interesting, my friend who works at Thank You had told me they were looking into Market Village near the MK location. Apparently the current location cost about 60K a month rent which is insane for a graveyard mall. Market Village was/is apparently 80K/month and they would certainly have more than made up the extra costs with many more cstomers at MV.