I’m not prone to periods of silence by nature, so when I’m in one, I’m usually either quite ill or very interested in what I’m eating. And anytime a salad from Red Onion Thai is placed before me, the table becomes as quiet as a nunnery at midnight, and not because I’m ill, either. Red Onion offers up 8 or so absolutely fantastic salads–incredibly fresh, intoxicatingly flavorful, filled with exotic mixtures of herbs and vegetables, salads unlike any others. The Beef Salad is one of my favorites–strips of tender grilled rib eye tossed with tomato, cucumber, shallots, lemon grass, kaffir lime leaf, mint, ground roasted rice, fresh lettuce, and spicy lime juice, a heaping plate of steak salad wonder for only $10. Equally tantalizing are the lemon grass chicken salad ($10), the steamed squid salad ($12) and the glass noodle salad with ground chicken and shrimp ($10). So the next time you’re craving a slightly exotic salad experience, skip up to Red Onion and prepare to be rendered speechless, in a good way.
