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FYI SOUTH Magazine, January 2003. VOL.3 ISSUE 1

Thai-wan Bangkok Thai Cruise 1-4,ShiaLin Rd.,Tainan City (06) 220-6871 Hours: 5 pm to 2 am English & Chinese menus.

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        Going for the middle ground between the cheap hole-in-a-wall eateries popular with Southeast Asians working in Taiwan, and the plush but pricey establishments bedecked with Buddha statues and handicrafts, Thai-wan Bangkok Cruise offers Thai food with a local twist. There are 15 varieties of hot pot on offer (NT$250 to 350 each), including every imaginable combination of chicken, seafood, bamboo shoot, crab, rib, curry and, of course, tom-yam soup. There are also savory cakes: fruit shrimp, moon shrimp, and sun shrimp (around NT$200). Thai-wan has been open almost a year. The folks working here are all Taiwanese, but the cooking staff learned their skills from a Thai - the proprietor¡¦s younger brother¡¦s wife. The decor is simple and the tables sprawl over the sidewalk. No Thai beers are available; local brews are. -- By Steven Crook

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