Jittlada Thai Cuisine

The restaurant does a good job with the generic Thai staples (saté, tom kha soup, pad Thai, etc. ), but they lose their allure when you have options like that crisp catfish salad or small, sweet soft-shelled crabs crisp-fried, halved crosswise, and moistened with turmeric-scented yellow curry sauce, or shredded-mango salad tossed with shrimp, cashews, and chiles. "Our grandmother gave us the recipe", Singsanong explains. Deep-fried whole sea bass is flavored with fresh turmeric, a spice popular in southern Thailand, and crisp dark brown chunks of fried garlic; neither the turmeric nor the caramelized garlic has the harshness that both often have.

The "rice salad" known as khao yam, a delicacy of the province of Songkhla, is a southern Thai culinary staple. It's essentially a mound of perfectly cooked rice topped with a jumble of chopped or shredded ingredients meant to be stirred in, including mango, bean sprouts, green beans, coconut, lemongrass, and dried shrimp, as well as Kaffir lime juice (limes grow in Singsanong's yard) and homemade Thai fish sauce.

Location: Jln. M.H. Thamrin 1 Grand Indonesia, Sky Bridge Lt. 3A Unit FD1-03, Jakarta

Website: https://www.jittlada.com