I used to love to get her "Hot and Spicy Noodles". Been to a lot of thai places in the intervening years and never found anything quite like it.

Pad Kee Mao is kinda similar.

Anybody got a better line on what the hell that dish was? Would love to make something similar from time to time.

BTW, my favorite Nipa Hot memory is this conversation with my buddy Joe one day at lunch.

Joe: I'll have hot and spicy noodles
Nipa Hot Lady: How many star?
Joe: (grinning) Hurt me.
NHL: OKAY. YOU FUNERAL

Joe did not finish his noodles.

Enjoyed that place. When did it close?

God I loved that place. I am sure there is better out there but no place has as found of memories. Probably ate there 3 times a week.

AggieChemist said:

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I used to love to get her "Hot and Spicy Noodles". Been to a lot of thai places in the intervening years and never found anything quite like it.

Pad Kee Mao is kinda similar.

Anybody got a better line on what the hell that dish was? Would love to make something similar from time to time.

BTW, my favorite Nipa Hot memory is this conversation with my buddy Joe one day at lunch.

Joe: I'll have hot and spicy noodles
Nipa Hot Lady: How many star?
Joe: (grinning) Hurt me.
NHL: OKAY. YOU FUNERAL

Joe did not finish his noodles.

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That sounds like a conversation that could have happened at Thai Taste... my memory of Nipa Hot is that despite the name was not as spicy. But then, IIRC, Nipa Hot was started by former employees of Thai Taste.

Both places, according to the Thai grad student in my department, were really Filipino Thai food. Nipa Hot was more open about calling themselves Filipino on the menu. But anyway, I suspect you might look to Filipino recipes for similar dishes.

I don't remember nipa being all that hot but never went off the menu.

Where was Thai taste?

Thai taste was out college toward Bryan, IIRC.

I liked Nipa Hot better.

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Thai taste was out college toward Bryan, IIRC.

I liked Nipa Hot better.

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Yeah it was nesslted between two apartment complexes on college about half way to the KA house (can't remember the name of the street)

AggieChemist said:

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Thai taste was out college toward Bryan, IIRC.

I liked Nipa Hot better.

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Thai Taste was originally over the Bryan border, I believe. In a tiny mall near where College Main ran into Old College. It was next to a laundromat. Nipa Hot was on University in Northgate near where The Corner is now, but a bit further east. Later, Thai Taste moved to space where Alicia's Mexican Restaurant was in the mall near Hurricane Harry's. There was a Cajun place there at some point.

I remember Alicia's being a Cajun place. They had a catfish etouffe over rice that was stellar.

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I remember Alicia's being a Cajun place. They had a catfish etouffe over rice that was stellar.

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Your reply got me questioning my memory. Google found this ancient thread from a site I never heard of.

http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/15899-favorite-defunct-restaurants/

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Alicia's (where Crazy Cajun's is now). This was a unique kind of Mexican/Cajun place that we used to bring out-of-town guests to. This one closed when Alicia decided to retire/move, and was replaced by a Thai restaurant that moved there, then by Crazy Cajun's.

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RIP Nipa Hot

Massaman Beef. 4.

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Thai Taste was originally over the Bryan border, I believe. In a tiny mall near where College Main ran into Old College. It was next to a laundromat.

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This is the Thai Taste location I always went to. My favorite memory was when you'd call, the lady would always have started talking before she got the phone up to her mouth, so she'd answer the phone "...Taaaste!".

Never had Nipa Hot, I was a ...Taaaste guy.

However, pad kee mao is my go-to dish at any Thai place to gauge the quality of the food, so I'm now bummed that I never had this spicy noodle dish at Nipa Hot.

This thread also has made me miss Chef Cao's (pronounced "Chaos" by me and my buddies) and the chicken with garlic sauce.

We never went to Nipa Hot either. I think maybe it was kind of out of the way for us. We did go to Thai Taste many times. The wife that ran the place was a friend of a friend.

I was always partial to the basil dish or the hot garlic. My wife usually only got hers one star of heat, I would usually go three, out of their scale of 1-5. I don't mind some heat, but heat just for the sake of heat just isn't my thing. It should complement the dish and not take control. Once we had some friends from west Texas come to visit. We took them to Thai Taste one night. The husband thought he was gonna be a bad ass and ordered his five stars. Slowly the sweat began to appear on his forehead, and quickly spread to most of his face. I don't remember if he finished his dish or not, but it was funny to watch him sweat it out, literally!

We miss Thai Taste.

This taste 5* basil chicken. 30 minutes later I was vomiting in pain. I loved that place.

I lived in the POS house behind Thai Taste when it was on College Main. I always found That Taste to be 1 notch hotter than Nipa.

I could only stand a 4* at Thai Taste but could knock back 5* at Nipa Hot all day long.

Beef asparagus or chicken basil we're my go tos...

The parents of a friend of mine owned Thai Taste. I have quite a few fond memories of that place. I was a waiter there for almost 2 years, and my sister met her husband while both were waiting tables there.

Chicken baby corn, 4* or beef Panang curry, 4*