Thai Essence
This Thai restaurant is located across from the Purdue Research Park and provides an intimate dining experience for lunch or dinner. Casual attire is recommended. Appetizer highlights include the mussels, Thai soup and vegetarian spring rolls. Dinner entrees include a variety of curries (red, green and yellow), grilled pork on a stick with rice, pad ga-prow (chicken and fried rice), mango fried rice, seafood noodles, sweet and sour chicken and the pad Thai. Also, make sure to save room for the Thai ice cream. The restaurant is within 5 miles of the Coyote Crossing Golf Course.
Thai Essence
1534 Win Hentschel Boulevard
West Lafayette, IN 47906
(765) 269-9380
Basil Thai & Bubble Tea
This Thai restaurant is located in the Chauncey Hill Mall area of West Lafayette within the Purdue University campus and provides a casual setting for lunch, dinner or carry-out. Meal prices range from $6 to $12 as of 2009. Items on the menu include the yum woon sen (noodles tossed with chicken, prawn, onions, cilantro, scallion and chili spice), steamed jasmine rice with vegetables, cucumber salad, gang khew wan (green curry) with coconut milk, eggplant, zucchini, bamboo and basil and the tom yum noodle soup, which includes rice noodles and bean sprouts in a tom yum soup base. The restaurant is also know for its large selection of authentic bubble teas, which include juice, tapioca balls and cocktail fruit jelly. The restaurant is within 5 miles of the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex.
Basil Thai & Bubble Tea
135 S. Chauncey Avenue
West Lafayette, IN 47906
(765) 743-3330
basilthaibubbletea.com
Exotic Thai
This Thai restaurant provides a casual atmosphere that is also quite and intimate. There is one large private dining room for large groups. Entrees range in price from $7 to $14 as of 2009. Appetizers on the menu include the vegetarian Thai rolls stuffed with glass noodles and served with tangy plum sauce, Thai beef jerky, chicken wings, wonton soup and Thai toast. Dinner entrees include the mixed vegetables served with choice of meat, calamari Thai with black pepper sauce, Thai fried rice with onions, tomato and egg, pad see-ew with flat rice noodles stir fried with broccoli and egg in a sweet black bean sauce and the pa-nang curry, which includes choice of meat, coconut milk, bell peppers and wild lime leaves. The restaurant is within 10 miles of the Coyote Crossing Golf Course.
Exotic Thai
3614 State Road 38 East
Lafayette, IN 47905
(765) 449-8898
About The Author
Greg Lindberg is a graduate of Purdue University with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree in creative writing. His professional writing experience includes three years of technical writing for an agriculture IT department and a major pharmaceutical company, as well as four years as staff writer for a music and film webzine.
