Marnee Thai Awards

Marnee Thai Restaurant Review:

Clad in traditional dress, May Siriyan, wife of chef-owner Chaiwatt Siriyan, typically choreographs the flow of cooks, waiters and customers here with a dancer's grace. Diners' taste buds will be dancing, too, since Chaiwatt turns out some of the city's most vivid Thai food. The deep-frying at this perpetually crowded Sunset restaurant is first-rate, as the greaseless corn cakes and spicy angel wings attest. Try the green papaya salad, its fiery jolt offset by lettuce leaves, or the chan pad pu, a silken rice noodle dish brimming with crab meat, green onion and egg. When the fruit is in season, end your meal with mangoes paired with warm sticky rice. Also located at 1243 9th Ave., 415-731-9999.