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Thai cooking at everyday prices in the Blundell Centre plaza at No. 2 Road and Blundell. Curries, noodles and stir-fries for dine-in or takeout, serving the surrounding residential blocks rather than any tourist trade.
Curries, noodles and stir-fries fill the menu here, cooked at everyday prices for the blocks around the plaza rather than for anyone driving across town. Thai Kitchen sits in Blundell Centre, the shopping plaza at No. 2 Road and Blundell, and it serves that catchment and very little beyond it. Dine-in and takeout are both routine.
This stretch of No. 2 Road is the Richmond most visitors never see. It is flat and residential, full of postwar bungalows and newer builds squeezed onto the same lots, and commercial life happens in small plazas at the arterial corners. Blundell Centre is one of the last genuinely local shopping centers in the city, filled with tenants that exist because the surrounding streets need them. A neighborhood Thai restaurant in that setting is doing a different job from one on Alexandra Road. It is feeding the same families repeatedly on a Wednesday, not chasing a destination crowd.
That shapes what to expect. The value sits in reliability and price rather than in novelty, and a large share of the business goes out the door in bags, so ordering ahead and collecting is often smoother than sitting down at peak. Arrive with the mindset of a regular rather than a critic and the place makes complete sense. Broadmoor and the streets east of here carry very few options at this price, which is most of why a plaza restaurant like this one lasts while flashier rooms elsewhere turn over every three years.
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