{"id":830,"date":"2017-03-24T13:15:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T17:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/globalcitiessandbox\/?p=830"},"modified":"2017-03-24T13:15:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T17:15:25","slug":"thai-x-ing-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/globalcitiessandbox\/2017\/03\/24\/thai-x-ing-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai X-ing D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"

Thai X-ing, pronounced\u00a0Thai Crossing,\u00a0<\/em>consists of\u00a0two restaurant locations in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. The original location on Florida Ave. NW\u00a0began as take-out-only, with chef\/owner Taw Vigsittaboot cooking traditional Thai food in the building’s\u00a0basement-kitchen, and delivering it to Washingtonians\u00a0via his bicycle. Nearly ten years later, Taw is still cooking in the basement-kitchen, but has since bought the second floor of the building [he did and remains to live in the one-bedroom apartment on the third-floor] and has expanded the business to a second location on 9th St NW, about a 10-minute walk. The eclectic interior design and authentic Southern Thai flavors have situated Thai X-ing within the D.C. ethnic eating circuit, and Washington City Paper readers voted it the reader’s choice award for Best Thai Food in 2012 and 2013.<\/p>\n

Open six days a week, the restaurant offers a chef’s choice menu for a fixed price per head, and almost always requires a reservation on weekends. Upon visiting Thai X-ing, one can expect at least 5 to 7 courses according to that night’s theme [Vegetarian\/Pescatarian; Meat\/Fish\/Vegetable; Vegetarian-only] and gluten-free and dairy-free options are always available.\u00a0[Especially since Thai food uses little dairy]. While the Florida Ave [original] location is alcohol-free, the 9th St location has a full bar and allows outside wine for a corkage fee of $5.<\/p>\n

Taw Vigsittaboot is himself an artist from Thailand, but has put his artwork aside in recent decades for the sake of his growing business. Thai X-ing also now has a location in Ranong Thailand, where tourists can stay in a guest-house built by Taw and go on river-adventures with the Maya-boat, a small vessel Taw built and named after his oldest daughter.<\/p>\n

On the outside of Thai X-ing 9th St, Taw’s daughter Maya hung a sign that reads\u00a0Syrian Refugees Welcome; Come Have a Meal With Us.\u00a0<\/em>I appreciated this subtle political move on the part of Thai X-ing. Taw says that the sign has only helped with business.<\/p>\n

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\"Original<\/a>
Original Location<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Main Staircase<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Thai<\/a>
Thai Food<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Getting<\/a>
Getting Political…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Visiting<\/a>
Visiting Thai Xing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Thai X-ing, pronounced\u00a0Thai Crossing,\u00a0consists of\u00a0two restaurant locations in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. The original location on Florida Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/globalcitiessandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/globalcitiessandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/globalcitiessandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/globalcitiessandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/globalcitiessandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/globalcitiessandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/globalcitiessandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/globalcitiessandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/globalcitiessandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/globalcitiessandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}