Sanamluang Cuisine - Claremont

Love coming to this place. Great delicious food and prices.

Best Thai food in Southern California, it's a must eat ?

My parents and I ate at Sanamluang this evening, and I can only highly recommend this place to anyone! For appetizers, we had Chicken Satay, Braised Short Ribs, and Thai Beef Jerky (which is not jerky in the traditional sense, obviously, and which is instead I guess closer to something like candied tri tip, maybe, with some crispness and admitted toughness, but which is accompanied by a spicy chili sauce . Then, we had Som Tam (which is a papaya salad served with chopped vegetables and little dried baby shrimp . Along with that we had three main entrees: a Emperor's Noodle (Thick, flat egg noodles with choice of protein (we agreed on chicken, shrimp, and squid , with a healthy covering of think gravy (I don't know exactly what it is, but it's savory, quite viscous, and the same kind they use on Rand Nah, if you're familiar with Thai food ; b Roast Duck over Rice (which happens to come with a delicious black sauce chock full of wonderfully spicy (I wouldn't hazard to guess the scoville units, but I'd say it's probably midway between a Jalapeño and an Habañero peppers ; c Panang Curry with Shrimp and Chicken (a coconut based curry in which is slowly simmered your choice of protein, and accompanied by bite sized red, green, and yellow peppers and green beans, which is best poured over rice . For dessert, we had Mango over Sticky Rice: A perfectly ripe and juicy third of a mango, pre chopped and layered delicately next to a warm pile of sticky rice, sweetened with sugar and drizzled with condensed milk before being sprinkled with pebble sized bits of fried rice (it's like if Rice Krispies were somehow turned into fresh chicharrones . Pure heaven! For those interested in the cost, the total amount of the bill (including tax was $142.84, and it was so much food that the three of us only got through about two thirds of it (and one of the best things about Thai food is that it reheats extremely well (in fact, I find that if you order Cha Po (which is a delectable combination of BBQ pork, BBQ duck, and fried pork belly, served over rice and with two sauces plum for the duck, and a soy vinegar chili concoction for the duck, both of which are utterly delectable , it actually tastes better the next day (protip: don't overcook it, or it will be dry; I'd recommend 45 second bursts; no more than a minute the fat in that pork belly crisps quick, , lol . Also, this includes one Thai iced tea (with boba and three Thai iced coffees (without; I had two and my dad had one . The service was prompt, courteous, and attentive, and the time between ordering and food delivery was impressively small. Parking, however, is a challenge (not that it's any way the fault of the restaurant , because for some reason you can't park in the Western Optometry lot even though it's obviously closed and which would greatly alleviate the situation ... nonetheless, I can attest that it's definitely worth the wait plus, their take out business is pretty brisk, so people are coming and going all the time. Chapter II: A Full Cost Benefit Analysis of This Meal Considering the overall ramifications of these comestibles... you actually thought I was gonna do it for a second there, didn't you? Don't lie. Point being, if you live within an hour of this place, you should eat here. I don't know what that is in Michelin Star rating, but in meta.jpg rating, it's freakin' awesome. 5/5 freakin' awesomes, if that kind of objective representation of ultimately subjective data guides your decision making process. Thank you, and good night. P.S. I apologize for the disheveled quality of the photo; it has been cropped from a family picture one of the wait staff (it wasn't even our server, they're all so nice took

Service was incredible and so was the food. Highly recommended for Thai food.

Indian curry noodle soup is still so good. Beef inside the soup so tender.