Gone?
looked like they were tearing down today when I walked by around 4ish.
daniel Local
Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 283 Location: Union & 8th
Mon May 01, 06 9:35 am EST
Noooooooooooo!! Why couldn't they have taken away Lemongrass instead? Mango was my favorite Thai restaurant in the area.
Carnivore Brooklyn Snark
Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 13566 Location: St Johns Pl and Underhill
Mon May 01, 06 10:37 am EST
It wasn't exactly good, but if this is true, I'll still be sad to see it go.
Honestly though, despite the multitude of Thai places in the area, they're all quite deficient in one way or another. I'd trade every single one of them in for one Sripathai!!!
8thandPrez Stroller Person
Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 1130 Location: No longer at 8th and Prez
Mon May 01, 06 11:20 am EST
No! No! No!
Their garlic seitan was delicious. The only place with comparable seitan is the too-expensive Mekong.
markroth8 Newbie
Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 22 Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY
Mon May 01, 06 9:53 pm EST
Are you sure? I walked by on my way home today and they were open.
8thandPrez Stroller Person
Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 1130 Location: No longer at 8th and Prez
Tue May 02, 06 12:09 pm EST
who is this "kristina" person? can we ban her from the board?
pitu Fake Buddhist
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 6489 Location: Utopian Park Slope
Tue May 02, 06 12:30 pm EST
8thandPrez wrote:
who is this "kristina" person? can we ban her from the board?
o don't say that, even in jest!
kristina tried Pepperoncino, was unimpressed and specific about it.
she's a new reliable source of information for me, at least tastebud-wise!
I want garlic seitan too . . . never dove that deeply into their menu . . . rarely order sietan since the original vegetarian paradise in chinatown went away . . .
cat Insider
Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 337
Tue May 02, 06 6:34 pm EST
if i had known they had garlic seitan i would have tried it, definitely. I went there once and wasn't that impressed ... seemed like run of the mill ingredients (happened to see them come in one day).
cat
8thandPrez Stroller Person
Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 1130 Location: No longer at 8th and Prez
Wed May 03, 06 10:21 am EST
The good news: I ordered from Mango last night and the food arrived, so I guess they're still in business.
The bad news: The garlic seitan sucked, big time. Plus, they charged an extra $1 for brown rice, which makes me incredibly angry.
Take away: No more Mango for me.
Flexichick Windsor Terrorist
Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 9623
Wed May 03, 06 1:03 pm EST
I can't get past the sound of "satan"
what is it, exactly?
Charging extra for brown rice is just obnoxious.
8thandPrez Stroller Person
Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 1130 Location: No longer at 8th and Prez
Wed May 03, 06 2:17 pm EST
Seitan is basically wheat gluten. It's high protein, low fat, and essentially flavorless. It has a fantasic, almost meat-like texture and takes on the flavor of whatever it's cooked/seasoned with. Any time you see mock-duck, mock-pork, mock-beef, etc in a Chinese/Vietnamese restaurant, it's seitan.
And yes, charging for brown rice pisses me off. I came >this< close to canceling my order and calling Red Hot, but I wanted that seitan so bad. Anyway, my Mango menu is in the recycling bin.
Flexichick Windsor Terrorist
Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 9623
Wed May 03, 06 3:02 pm EST
Thanks for the explanation - so is it like tofu in that it absorbs other flavors?
Red Hot - blech. Only went once and the soup crunchy noodles were stale and food took forever and came with a side dose of major attitude (this when the place was empty at 3pm).
<--wonders when "newbie" will stop being next to my name
8thandPrez Stroller Person
Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 1130 Location: No longer at 8th and Prez
Wed May 03, 06 3:08 pm EST
i actually like Red Hot. The Vegetable Tso's "chicken" (again, wheat gluten) is deeeeelish, if 5000 calories.
regarding your "newbie" status, things seemed to be reset recently. i used to be a Grand Master or something equally important, but was downgraded to a "regular"
Flexichick Windsor Terrorist
Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 9623
Wed May 03, 06 3:09 pm EST
I think I'd rather remain irregular
Diane Regular
Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 99
Wed May 03, 06 3:16 pm EST
Speaking of Thai restaurants, there is a new one that is quite excellent
on 7th ave. I believe it is between 13-14th or 14th-15th. So, if you are
up for walking to the south slope you may want to give it a try. I
wish I could remember the name but at the moment, I can't think
of it.
armchair_warrior retsop cixelsyd
Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 5800 Location: boondocks
Wed May 03, 06 3:36 pm EST
Diane wrote:
Speaking of Thai restaurants, there is a new one that is quite excellent
on 7th ave. I believe it is between 13-14th or 14th-15th. So, if you are
up for walking to the south slope you may want to give it a try. I
wish I could remember the name but at the moment, I can't think
of it.
if you remember the name let me know. i would love to try a new place . _________________ Fight white guilt and injustice by going to a Native American casino and gamble your money away.
It's called "Watana". I like the way it looks, but haven't tried it (not into Thai food - at least I don't think so).
Rose Ninja
Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 911 Location: South Slope
Wed May 03, 06 7:26 pm EST
I think Beet is really good. I know they were shilling here a while ago, and that was bad . . . but their food is good. There's another place on 5th Avenue around 5th Street that is also really good. Both are better than Rice.
Flexichick Windsor Terrorist
Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 9623
Wed May 03, 06 7:55 pm EST
so, Beet is really not suck?
kristina Regular
Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 59
Wed May 03, 06 7:59 pm EST
8thandPrez wrote:
who is this "kristina" person? can we ban her from the board?
sadly, i'm kind of hard to shhut-up....
unless of course i have snacks!
good to know they are still up and runnin, i am always sad to see business go down...i've only been there twice, mostly it's close and not too bad. i haven't really tried many of the other thai spots in the neighborhood, i'd like to hear everyone's favorites?
Rose Ninja
Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 911 Location: South Slope
Wed May 03, 06 10:18 pm EST
Flexichick wrote:
so, Beet is really not suck?
Beet is not suck. Except that none of their food contains beets.
Flexichick Windsor Terrorist
Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 9623
Wed May 03, 06 10:19 pm EST
So, then, Beet is not suck and Beet is not also Beet, right?
pitu Fake Buddhist
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 6489 Location: Utopian Park Slope
Wed May 03, 06 11:31 pm EST
8thandPrez wrote:
Seitan is basically wheat gluten. It's high protein, low fat, and essentially flavorless. It has a fantasic, almost meat-like texture and takes on the flavor of whatever it's cooked/seasoned with. Any time you see mock-duck, mock-pork, mock-beef, etc in a Chinese/Vietnamese restaurant, it's seitan.
And yes, charging for brown rice pisses me off. I came >this< close to canceling my order and calling Red Hot, but I wanted that seitan so bad. Anyway, my Mango menu is in the recycling bin.
fact checker here . . .
mock duck is tofu skin, and mock something else could be yam depending on the restaurant
but yeah, love the wheat gluten (and hate the need to call it fake meat!)
and hate paying extra for brown rice. They don't do that on Fifth Ave at the little Chinese joints.
Rose, is Song the place you're talking about at 5th Avenue around 5th Street..or 3rd St? It's loud loud, and some of the food is okay. I like takeaway there. I haven't tried any vegetarian options...do they even serve satan?
The pork or beef salad is good, some of the curries are otay. Not great, but better than getting bad chinoise . . .
Right, back "to writing" my Zagats "entries" . . .
8thandPrez Stroller Person
Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 1130 Location: No longer at 8th and Prez
Thu May 04, 06 10:44 am EST
pitu wrote:
fact checker here . . .
mock duck is tofu skin, and mock something else could be yam depending on the restaurant
.
DOH! Mock duck is tofu skin? Well, the thought of real duck turns my stomach, so I've never been in the market for mock duck. At any rate, to redeem myself in the sphere of bean curd, may I remind you that 'tofu skin' is more appropriately referred to as yuba?
pitu Fake Buddhist
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 6489 Location: Utopian Park Slope
Thu May 04, 06 11:20 am EST
8thandPrez wrote:
pitu wrote:
fact checker here . . .
mock duck is tofu skin, and mock something else could be yam depending on the restaurant
.
DOH! Mock duck is tofu skin? Well, the thought of real duck turns my stomach, so I've never been in the market for mock duck. At any rate, to redeem myself in the sphere of bean curd, may I remind you that 'tofu skin' is more appropriately referred to as yuba?
I done never hear of no yuba, but I'll take your word for it.
I personally love the stuff.
When Lemongrass was good, they made something called Hun Hu Tor (I'm taking liberties will the spelling...) that was shitakes and other bits wrapped in tofu skin on a bed of flamed water spinach. (cue the mountain flutes)
That children, was 100 years ago when the Good Chef was in Park Slope and there were no other Lemongrasses in the chain . . . also cheap rent and The Staple Singers in Prospect Park every summer . . . KosherDave remembers . . .
Rose Ninja
Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 911 Location: South Slope
Thu May 04, 06 7:10 pm EST
pitu wrote:
Rose, is Song the place you're talking about at 5th Avenue around 5th Street..or 3rd St? It's loud loud, and some of the food is okay. I like takeaway there. I haven't tried any vegetarian options...do they even serve satan?
I don't think it is Song . . . I have a vague idea that Song is on the other side of the street. I just have no idea what this place is called and I eat lunch there almost once a week. If you started in front of MS 51 and walked south past Belleville, it is either that block or the next block. I mean, I don't think it's worth going way out of your way to try, but it is tasty for what it is -- much better than Rice.
Flexichick Windsor Terrorist
Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 9623
Thu May 04, 06 7:24 pm EST
I think Rose means Thai Sky
Rose Ninja
Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 911 Location: South Slope
Thu May 04, 06 8:40 pm EST
Flexichick wrote:
I think Rose means Thai Sky
Yes, I think I do. Thanks!
JS Guest
Fri May 05, 06 1:51 pm EST
Beet is actually owned by the same people as Mango, though in my experience it's not nearly as good.
My friend tried the pad thai from that new Thai restaurant on 7th and said it's the best he's had in the slope which is saying a lot since there are probably 70,000 Thai places here.
I personally think Rice has excellent and spicey curries.
_RAW_ Guest
Sun May 07, 06 10:10 am EST
Mango and Beet may not offer the most authentic Thai cuisine, but their vegetarian offerings and quick service is all that I ask for. Supposedly, dishes can be prepared with less oil and sugar upon request.
doctorj Abstruse Goose
Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 2509 Location: Underbilt btwn Carwash and Parking Pl.
Mon May 08, 06 5:30 am EST
A historical perspective on the sustainability of Thai restaurants:
I kept tabs on the mile-long equivalent of 7th avenue in a neighborhood in another city with many parallels to the Slope. In the early 90s there was 1. By the height of Thaimania in 2000 there were 27 -- so many that they were having trouble finding distinct names for them all (Thai Tanic; Thai Foon; Thai Coon; Thai Riffic; Thai Pan; Thai Dai; Thai Mee Upp; SayThaiEatThai, Saij'n'Thai'm etc.). Speculation brought the number of Thai restaurants above market fundamentals such as the number of Thai-born residents in the area, let alone chefs. Then in a splash of coconut milk the bubble burst, the Thai went underground, Vietnamese became the new Thai, and Cambodian became the new Vietnamese. I survived on Malaysian and Korean in the lean years, with occasional guided forays to heavily concealed family-run Thai-only eat-easies. Today that neighborhood is a stable home to about 15 assorted Thai restaurants, cafes, bistros and buffets, which seems to be sustainable as long as the cuisine is standardized sweetened Thai western fusion, such as King Prik and Gang Yang with Cream of Sum Yung Gai, palatable to tourists from the burbs looking for that authentic inner-city Saturday Night Thai Grunge experience.
NB: Past performance is no guarantee of future returns. Those who do not remember past menus are condemned to reeat them. _________________ The world will little note nor long remember what we say here. -- Abraham Lincoln
brooklynpotter ceramme ceramma danna
Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 3996 Location: near the square that's a circle
Thu May 11, 06 10:15 am EST
i used to love love LOVE mango thai... stilll they gave me food poisoning on new year's eve. no more. _________________ what would you tell me, if i could hear you speaking?--t.r.
daniel Local
Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 283 Location: Union & 8th
Thu May 11, 06 8:11 pm EST
It's actually Oscar's Pizza, next door to Mango, that has closed.
armchair_warrior retsop cixelsyd
Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 5800 Location: boondocks
Thu May 11, 06 9:31 pm EST
i almost made it to the new thai place . but my friend was too tired and we end up at rice instead. we walked all the walk from grand army plaza . _________________ Fight white guilt and injustice by going to a Native American casino and gamble your money away.
Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 5800 Location: boondocks
Thu May 18, 06 5:18 pm EST
i went to matan or watan or what ever it is on 15 or 16 on 7 ave. they dont have wine or any type of drinks. but food was good. _________________ Fight white guilt and injustice by going to a Native American casino and gamble your money away.
Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 5800 Location: boondocks
Thu May 25, 06 11:24 pm EST
i went to mango tonight. its pretty good. _________________ Fight white guilt and injustice by going to a Native American casino and gamble your money away.
Beet is the best Thai food I've had in all of NYC.
SEA up in Williamsburg, although beautiful inside, is terrible food-wise. They once served me *raw* chicken covered in green curry powder, and it was gross and I shit liquid for a day.
I second that on SEA. They care more about the house/club decor than they do about the food. It's more for being "seen" than it is having a good meal.
quijibo Crooklyn Ninja
Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 2028 Location: taintalicious!
Sun Sep 24, 06 1:54 pm EST
an update on Mango.
they're revised their menu
last night i had the grilled salmon salad
which is amazingly good and goes for $9
recommend it!
Carnivore Brooklyn Snark
Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 13566 Location: St Johns Pl and Underhill
Sun Sep 24, 06 2:03 pm EST
quijibo wrote:
an update on Mango.
they're revised their menu
last night i had the grilled salmon salad
which is amazingly good and goes for $9
recommend it!
I ordered Mango for lunch today, and I was disappointed, as I have been every time I've ordered from them. I got the tulip dumplings and Pad Thai, both of which were pretty bland.
raw "Way Too Incestial"
Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 2036
Sun Sep 24, 06 2:51 pm EST
Carnivore wrote:
quijibo wrote:
an update on Mango.
they're revised their menu
last night i had the grilled salmon salad
which is amazingly good and goes for $9
recommend it!
I ordered Mango for lunch today, and I was disappointed, as I have been every time I've ordered from them. I got the tulip dumplings and Pad Thai, both of which were pretty bland.
I've never had Mango's pad thai or tulip dumplings, so I can't defend them. I'm a huge fan of Mango's hot and spicy lemon grass soup (whatever it's called) and their hot, sweet, spicy, basil, chilli dishes with eggplant and "less oil" (whatever it's called). Anything that tastes like sweet, sour, lemon fire works for me.
Sorry to hear your meal sucked. I hate paying for a bland meal.
alafairnadia radical quellist
Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 8272 Location: not washington ave. btwn sterling & st. johns
Sun Sep 24, 06 2:59 pm EST
the only things I've gotten from mango thai that I've enjoyed are their tom yum soup and their drunken noodle. also, the beef salad is really good. otherwise I've been totally disappointed. _________________ like a smoked meat with an earthy youth overnote
WhyFi Staid and Dull
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 4389 Location: In the Groove
Sun Sep 24, 06 3:01 pm EST
I've enjoyed the few things that I've had there - beef drunken noodles and the golden puff appitizer (puffy pastry wrapped around curried chicken and potatoes) being my favorites.
raw "Way Too Incestial"
Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 2036
Thu Jan 04, 07 9:37 pm EST
What 's going on in the kitchen of Mango Thai Fusion on 7th Avenue?
As a devoted regular, I swear that the last few weeks the quality and amount of food I've ordered at Mango has been far less flavorful and as plentiful as it has been the previous 100 times I've eaten it. It seems Mango Thai Fusion's chef has toned down the spices and reduced the amount of vegetables, tofu, meat, fish, etc. of various menu items. I tolerated the recent price hikes, but cannot tolerate a bad meal.
That's funny because we ordered Mango just the other day and had just the opposite reaction. It was all vegetables (almost no noodles) and spicy as hell (in a good way).
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. but my friend was too tired and we end up at rice instead. we walked all the walk from grand army plaza 