jackfruit Archives - Chicago Reader

Clockwise from top left: beef pad taming, kow tome (breakfast soup), som tam (papaya salad), pad cha (squid), and the powerfully funky and spicy jackfruit salad.

Make the drive to Chicagoland’s only Lao restaurant

by Mike Sula February 28, 2014August 18, 2021

Spicy Thai Lao is in a blink-and-you-miss-it south-suburban strip mall. But you don’t want to miss it.

An order of nasi lemak: coconut-milk-saturated rice surrounded by beef rendang, pickled carrot, shredded omelet, fried anchovy, shrimp crackers, peanuts, and spicy sambal

The virtues of Indonesian at Rickshaw Republic

by Mike Sula March 18, 2013August 19, 2021

Rickshaw Republic provides a delectable education in the regional street food of Indonesia.