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Secret of Siam – Las Vegas NV – The Secret is……..

Secret of Siam is a Thai Restaurant located in the Centennial Area of Las Vegas Nevada. They offer most of your usual Thai Dishes, a good amount of sharing plates, seafood dishes, beer, and wine.

Most of the seating are booths.

The crispy spinach is an interesting starter.

The spinach is shattering crisp and seems free of oil. The dipping sauce on the side is on the sweet side and is adorned with red onion and cashews.

I tried the basil eggplant with chicken.

The heat level (3 out of 5) is good to me. The chicken was moist, tender, and developed with flavors. The eggplant is creamy and sweet and doesn’t seem oily.

My husband tried the drunken noodles with beef (heat level 4 out of 5)

Today the #4 heat might be running more like a #3 but everything else is good….Good flavors, tender beef.

On a second visit my husband tried the spicy basil #4 heat with combination (chicken, pork, beef, shrimp) that was reasonably good like everything else so far………..

I tried a dish I never noticed on a Thai Menu before. The Green apple pompano (green apple salad green apples, tomatoes, red onions, cilantro, cashews, lime sauce) over crispy fried fish).

I have to say that the slaw is delicious……..but

The fish is not edible. It’s like it was fried in glue. You can’t dig the flesh out and when you manage to get a little morsel it’s fishy.

The Secret of Siam is not to order the Green Apple Pompano……..I wouldn’t take a chance with the red snapper or salmon either because of the taste of the morsel I tried.

Secret of Siam ….The Secret might be………….. (not to get the fish)

Secret of Siam

5705 Centennial Center Blvd Las Vegas NV – 702-331-4406

www.SecretofSiamThaiCuisine.com

Every THING is subject to change.

The Forking Truth

Happy Hour at El Dorado Cantina – Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try!

El Dorado Cantina is a Mexican Restaurant with Three Locations in Las Vegas Nevada. The Tivoli Village location in Summerlin is adorned with amazing light fixtures indoors and outdoors.

Very detailed cut glass chandeliers of flowers and parrots accent the patio and also look amazing from indoors.

Inside are red star light fixtures and hanging light fixtures with butterflies.

Eater Las Vegas wrote that the chips and salsas are the best from this restaurant so we gave them a try.

I should note that the chips and salsas are not on the Happy hour menu (3-6 Monday-Friday & 12am-3 daily) but they were only $3.75 and they are good. My Golden Cadillac Margarita was 1/2 price and it’s good for $11.00 but if I paid $22. for it I might feel different?

They offer EIGHT different tacos on the happy hour menu, a quesadilla, nachos, Mexican seared tuna, and a few other things.

I tried a roasted corn and poblano taco, a pulled chicken taco, and a carne Asda taco.

They are smaller sized tacos but are double shelled and well stuffed.

The carne asada is infused with good flavors and is tender today.

The chicken taste fresh made and is mildly seasoned and is as tender as tender can be…..

The roasted corn and poblano taco is maybe the tastiest but also is almost free of corn.

I see two corn kernels….It’s mostly caramelized onions with poblanos and lots of rich sour cream. It’s extra tasty from the cheese that was grilled on the tortilla.

My husband tried four tacos.

Fried shrimp, carnitas, mole chicken, cauliflower.

He liked the carnitas best out of the meat tacos. He liked the shrimp but didn’t like the generous amount of guacamole on them. The chicken mole tacos seemed similar to the regular chicken tacos……just with a dab of thin mole on them. Cauliflower taco was tasty.

That was Happy Hour at El Dorado Cantina – Tivoli Village Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try!

702-333-1112

www.ElDoradoCantina.com

Every THING is subject to change.

The Forking Truth