REVIEW - Hawker Fare

The colorful decor at Hawker Fare, the great service, and the basic premise of serving Thai street food at a bustling, indoor location should all add up to a lot more than it actually does.

First, the decor largely gets lost once you're inside. All the plastic table covers, and plastic chairs or stools, are interesting until you're sat in them. Then they just become part of the noise.

The food is a major disappointment.

Despite the preponderance of chili, nothing was too spicy. But nothing was particularly tasty either - aside from the Gai Thot. There were six of us, with choices all over the place. Here's what I had:

Beer Nuts - red peanuts roaster with makrut lime laves, chilis, and salt.
Gai Thot - fried chicken, cilantro root, white pepper, soy sauce, and nam prik pao.
Jaew Bong - Laotian chili relish of caramelized galangla, shallots, and dried shrimp, pork rinds and vegatables.
Kra-Toog Moo - Vegetables stewed in pork rib broth with dill, cabbage, thai eggplant, long beans, and chili.
Khao Mun - chicken fat rice,

I wanted to love the place, but I couldn't.