Restaurant: Can-Coon Thai Restaurant
Location: 9349 Alondra Blvd, Bellflower, CA 90706. (562) 925-0993
Date: April 11, 2023
Cuisine: French Bistro
Rating: Awesome (but far)
Thai Tour often drags us far and wide in search of Southern California’s best Thai.
Can-Coon is FAR, all the way in Bellflower, and not exactly “fancy.”
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The huge menu.
Nam Kao Tod. Ground pork mixed with green onion, fresh chili, ginger, peanuts, cripsy rice, and lime juice. Crispy, vaguely larb like (but with crispy). Nice.
Soup Nor Mai. Bamboo shoots mixed with green onion, chili, and lime juice. Super funky fermented shrimp paste smell (and to a lessor extent taste) and fibrous texture. A hardcore dish.
Sai Eua. Thai sausage made from pork, mixed with curry paste, lemongrass, and galangal. Great sausage with a lot of flavor.
Koi Soi. Raw beef mixed with red onion, dried chili, and lime juice. Somewhat slimey texture with that shrimp paste taste, although not as strong as the bamboo.
Crispy rice. Intended to be put on the raw beef — which helped it a lot.
Beef Larb. Cooked with chopped onion, green chili, and lime juice. Served with fresh cabbage. Like a salty ground beef cooked version of the raw. Hint of shrimp paste.
Tom Kah Seafood. Spicy and sour coconut soup with mixed seafood, lime juice, and lemongrass. Very nice, slightly spicy, slightly sweet coconut lemongrass soup. Lots of flavor and quite excellent, although not quite as good as the coco lotus soup or the incredible Palms Thai spicy bomb soup.
Shrimp Panang Curry. The color and flavor of fresh and dried chili makes this curry a unique dish. Cooked with coconut cream, sweet basil and chili. Very nice panang. Top notch actually.
Green Curry with Fish Ball. Spicy and delicious with a bit of shrimp paste funk. Really great and “authentic” green curry. Nice bamboo shoots and soft fish balls/chunks.
Sticky Rice.
Pork Leg Stew. Soy sauce pork with five spices. A bit sweet, slightly chinese, and very stewed. Delicious.
Moo Yang. Marinated charbroiled pork, served with spicy sauce. Very sweet and quite delicious.
Tom Sab Baby Back Ribs. Tangy soup with pork niblet ribs (like at dim sum). Great pho-like broth.
Nuah Yum Kra Tiem. Char-broiled beef, topped with fresh garlic and spicy sauce. The waiter pitched this which was like a salty strip 3rd version of the beef salad.
Crispy Pork stir-fried with Basil. Super crispy, a bit sweet, and incredibly delicious. Awesome fried pork nubs.
Crispy Mussel Omelet. Fried Thai omelet with mussel until crispy, topped with sauteed bean sprout and green onion, served with house sauce. Salty but great. Really nice pancake/omelet. Seemed like it had batter in it.
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Overall, a really tasty, if slightly rustic Thai. Very “authentic” with a lot of shrimp paste flavor. Almost every dish was great. We could have used at least 1 less beef salad, however. The drive was also killer. Almost two hours there and a lot of traffic.