 Pok Pok NY Restaurant Review: After opening up a successful Thai-accented wing shop on the Lower East Side, Portland chef Andy Ricker didn’t rest on his laurels. Soon after, he fired up the burners at this Thai restaurant in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood. The place is small, with a tented extension in the back during the warm weather months, and they don’t take reservations, so be prepared to wait. Is it worth it? For above-average Thai in an urban sea of mediocre Southeast Asian restaurants? Yes. Ricker’s menu focuses on a Thai cuisine that hasn’t often been translated across the Pacific. Mangalitsa pork neck is delightfully drenched in a spicy fish sauce. The Yam Samun Phrai salad is laden with more than a dozen ingredients, including betel leaf, lemon grass, basil, ground pork and dry shrimp in a mild coconut milk dressing. And then there’s the spicy guinea hen and pork bone soup that is a lot more satisfying than it sounds. House selections of wine are available, but stick to the Asian-ingredient-themed signature cocktails that pair nicely with the food.
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