By definition, the tamarind is a sweet-and-sour-tasting pod most often used to flavor East Indian and Middle Eastern foods. Their trees are grown mostly in northern Africa and Asia, especially India. Tamarind, therefore, is a curious name for a restaurant specializing in Japanese and Thai cuisines. Nomenclature aside, however, this restaurant makes perfect sense.

I truly enjoyed the food here. Looking at the menu, I knew right away I wanted the Red Dragon Roll. It came out very pretty and super fresh! My other person got the drunken noodles with beef and I absolutely loved it. Not many places can cook/serve drunken noodles well so I was very interested in trying that dish. I wish i had the stomach capacity to order the sashimi platter. The table next to us got it and it looked SO fresh. 

From Chiang Mai special noodle soup to spice-packed curries, Thai food is anything but simple. It's a complicated choreography of ingredients like fish sauce, dried shrimp paste, and lemongrass combined with seemingly incongruous spices such as coriander, basil, garlic, ginger, cumin, cardamom, and cinnamon. But the heart of this cuisine is about balance, a chef mastering the full spectrum of flavors and creating a single, harmonious finish.