Little Thai Market - Reading Terminal Market

Reading Terminal Market is a little far from home base on 20th and Market so it's a spot I rarely get out to for lunch...but owing a friend, who works on 8th and Market, a lunch I decided it would be a good opportunity to try Little Thai Market, a very highly recommended spot.

As appetizing as everything on this menu sounds the Salmon Curry was the one dish I was told I had to get.   I obliged and so did my friend.  

1) Salmon Curry - $6.50
When we opened up our containers we both marveled at how much salmon they managed to jam in there. If I were to go to the store and pick up a salmon filet it would probably be close to the cost of this entire dish so I don't know how they're making money off of this.  Now, this would all be for naught, if it were a lifeless, dried out piece of fish but the salmon was moist and flaky and the Thai red curry sauce was delicious. This meal is one of the best lunches you can get in the city for the price.

Overall LTE score[8.5/10]  Reading Terminal Market during lunch time is like the liquor store right before a major hurricane. Shared painfully with what appears like every other person in the city.  But having said this, I think if there was one thing I would be willing to endure the crowds and also the long trip over for it would be this meal.  It's cheap and its delicious.

Thai Singha House - 20th between Sansom and Walnut St

Thai Singha House To Go

My wallet would like to give thanks to places like Thai Singha House who along with NY Gyro Cart, Mama's Vegetarian and a few others make up a short list of cheap but good eats in the area. When you enter you're greeted by a steam table with a collection of pre made foods behind a glass shield and not much else.  This space is tiny and there's really only room for a small kitchen, the counter, a beverage fridge and a few cramped window seats if you choose to eat in.  The standard lunch special is $6 for any 2 choices from the counter.

1) Chicken Pad Thai - $6
My usual 2 choices are Chicken and Pad Thai and for $6 you get a lot of it.  The food is put together in front of you and you're out the door in a matter of minutes.  Now the convenience of having thai food available for quick take out does have its downsides.  When you have this kind of food pre-made and sitting out in you invariably run into soggy noodles and dry chicken and Thai Singha House is no exception to these problems.  But more often than not you get a full container of good thai food at a price you can't beat.

Overall LTE score [6.5/10] Quick, convenient, cheap and good.  This equates to a good LTE option.