{"id":232772,"date":"2010-01-26T10:53:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2010-01-26T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:53:07","slug":"tuk-tuk-thai-food-loft%e2%80%99s-mieng-kum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/232772","title":{"rendered":"Tuk Tuk Thai Food Loft\u2019s Mieng Kum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2216\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuktukatl.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2216\" title=\"4171824154_034316843c\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/01\/4171824154_034316843c-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"4171824154_034316843c\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtest of Melissa Libby<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuktukatl.com\">Tuk Tuk Thai Food Loft<\/a><\/strong> is a curious place. You enter through a small vestibule where you are greeted by an actual tuk tuk &#8212; a colorful auto rickshaw with headlights that glower at you like Darth Maul&#8217;s eyes. Then you take an elevator to the second floor where a vast, sleek, seductively lit dining room awakes. Only the witty displays of canned goods, dry crackers, colorful candies and even washing powder alert you this isn&#8217;t Thai as usual.<\/p>\n<p>Tuk Tuk&#8217;s lovely young chef\/owner, DeeDee Niyomkul, is the daughter of Charlie and Nan Niyomkul who have defined high-end Thai in this town at Tamarind Seed Thai Bistro and Nan Thai Fine Dining. This restaurant goes for something different. The menu lists a dozen or more small-plate versions of Thai street foods as well as a handful of Thai style salads and &#8220;Bangkok Street Noodles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unique dishes include <em>hoy tod<\/em>, a crispy mussel pancake, and <em>neau sawan<\/em>, which are plugs of warm, sweet, appealingly chewy beef jerky &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtest of Melissa Libby Tuk Tuk Thai Food Loft is a curious place. You enter through a small vestibule where you are greeted by an actual tuk tuk &#8212; a colorful auto rickshaw with headlights that glower at you like Darth Maul&#8217;s eyes. Then you take an elevator to the second floor where a vast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}