Looking for the best Thai food? Start at this temple’s parking lot
LA TimesEvery weekend, plumes of smoke billow up from the parking lot of the Wat Thai in Sun Valley. This is where roughly 17 vendors gather every weekend to sell papaya salad prepared in large stone mortars, sliced ripe mango with sticky rice, grilled skewers of marinated pork, curls of deep-fried chicken skins, overflowing styrofoam boxes of crab fried rice, grilled sour pork sausages with slivers of raw garlic, and rice flour pizzelles full of “Thai gelato.” There are even the obligatory farmers market bags of kettle corn. A selection of food from vendors at the Wat Thai Temple weekend market. Suchada and Heng Vongasavarit, owners of the Heng Heng 88 noodle booth at the Wat Thai Temple food court. But for “Thai gelato,” visit software engineer Darwin Wai at the purple and yellow Moom Maam tent near the northwest corner of the food court.
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