Over the CNY break and in conjunction to having my whole family staying over, we decided to bring mom to Khunthai for dinner, since Thai food is one of mom’s favorite cuisines aside from traditional Chinese fair. It turned out to be a pretty good decision.
Khunthai at Klang with my family
Khunthai is located at a rather remote area in Klang via KESAS highway, but fortunately it is rather simple to navigate to since it is just one straight long ghetto farming road to the rather lavishly built restaurant in the middle of nowhere. Forget about going there if a low-riding sports car is your only mode of transportation, but otherwise you’ll get there just fine after cursing at how bumpy the road is for about 5 minutes.
This seems to be the theme with Thai restaurants, Mae Salong in Sungai Petani, and De Cheingmai at Sungai Buloh are both located at pretty obscure locations.
miang kham, seafood tomyam, chicken feet salad
The menu is pretty extensive and covers all bases when it comes to Southern style Thai food. The restaurant is also pork free.
For the 5 of us, we ordered miang kham, chicken feet salad, and raw prawn salad to open up our appetite.
For those who’re not familiar, miang kham is a type of traditional Thai appetizer where you wrap a bunch of ingredients such as crushed peanut, shallot, ginger, lime, and so on with a Piper sarmentosum leaf. If you haven’t had this before, it is definitely something to try.
Raw prawn salad and chicken feet salad were both pretty spot on as well.
raw prawn salad, lala, kangkung belacan
To go with rice, we also had Thai style lala, kang kung belacan, and seafood tomyam. While the kangkung belacan was perhaps a little too oily for my liking, lala & tomyam did not disappoint. One thing to note though – have your lips prepared for how hot the food can get.
safe to say we enjoyed ourself really well at Khunthai
To be fair, there are other comparable Thai restaurants in the city with better access and similar pricing, but there’s always a bit of fun to travel to a god forsaken place from time to time for a dining experience that is just slightly different from the ordinary.
Address:
Khun Thai
6, Jalan Kg Air Hitam,
Taman Pendamar Indah 1,
42500 Klang, Selangor
GPS:Â 2.960457, 101.439903
Tel:Â 03-3081 3308
KY, ong choy is my fav vegetable which sometime called swamp spinach. I cooked with shrimp paste my family does lot time. Raw prawn salad is something I would like to try. In Hawaii we have shrimp poke which almost like raw prawn salad.
Vickie: oo shrimp paste style would be very familiar for us as well.
ooo, i live in sri petaling, and my place basically faces the kesas highway, so all i have to do to get here is go from one end of kesas to the other end … one straight road, no detours 😉
Sean: yes, one way to heaven!
lol @ Khunthai… must be careful with pronunciation…
and raw prawn salad… all i see is ice hehehehehehe
immature: you need glasses!
I don’t mind a bit of adventure in finding dinner. 😉
The Yum List: That’s the spirit!
This place sure needs no introduction, their outlet in Penang is good too.
suituapui: yep!
Which reminds me.. haven’t had Thai in agessssss.. will bring the man ! hehe
ccfoodtravel: you have all the excuse for cravings kan?
Half the fun would be trying to find the place in the dark along a lonely road although I think gps takes the mystery away these days
Z: bring back the paper maps!
I do like Thai food but miang kham is one I don’t seem to embrace. I tried it once and that was it! 🙁
eatwhateatwhere: time to up your game!
uncle: “Yes bring me to Khunthai please”
taxi driver: “Oh… oh ok Patpong…”
uncle: “No no, Khunthai”
taxi driver: “Yes yes i know, Patpong…”
uncle: “KHUNTT THAIIII”
taxi driver: “ME LOVE YOU LOOOONG TIMEEEEE, OKAYYY???”
immature: pay with credit card?
sure can wan, just no tranny…
I never try raw prawn salad and too skeptical to try it too 😛
Choi Yen: be brave!
Can we do & wish celebrate birthday at this place?
just asking…tq
Jessica: you probably can. Should give them a call.