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Mixing modern, traditional style NEWS
Scranton’s newest Thai restaurant opens By JESSICA MEONI For Go Lackawanna
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He currently operates the Thai Thai location in Wilkes-Barre, which opened in 2007. The new restaurant marks his return to downtown Scranton. Thai cuisine typically uses a balance of spicy, hot, sweet, and salty flavors in lightly prepared dishes with special attention to detail in appearance and aroma. Thai Thai Scranton
Thai Thai employees include, from left, Manager Deach Areesonti, Pong Eingnguluem, Bowie, Kritsana Srisonchai, and Emsya.
IF YOU GO WHAT: Thai Thai Scranton WHERE: 309 N. Washington Ave., Scranton HOURS: Monday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 a.m. INFO: For more information, call (570) 963-7745. JESSICA MEONI PHOTOS/FOR GO LACKAWANNA
serves nearly 120 meals, including traditional favorites such as Pad Thai, which are noodles with shrimp, chicken, eggs, ground peanuts, bean curd, scallion and bean sprouts as well as more modernized dishes such as Fettuccine Kee Mao, a stirfried fettuccine with the patron’s choice of chicken, pork or beef over broccoli, tomato, onion, bell pepper, egg, chili and basil leaves. Prices range from $6.99
Goong Sam Rod, also known as three flavors shrimp; Pad Thai, famous Thai noodles with shrimp and chicken; and the Royale Tom Yum Goong soup are among the many dishes available at Thai Thai Scranton.
appetizers including steamed wontons or crispy spring rolls to more filling Chef Specialties at $16.99 and up, including a sautéed wild boar with red curry paste, eggplant, lime, coconut milk and peppercorn. Lunch specials are available Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for $7.99 with a choice of beef, chicken or pork as
well as a soup of the day. Lunch entrees typically include a choice of Pad Thai, curry, macaroni, rice, or noodle soup. Invented in the 1980s in Taiwan, another novel inclusion on the menu is bubble tea, which is a foam tea sweetly flavored with fruit or milk. Thai Thai Scranton’s version of the tea is more reminiscent of a smoothie or milk-
shake. This version of bubble tea is often called a Snow Bubble. The drink also contains “tapioca pearls” - round, chewy tidbits found in a bunch at the bottom of the cup – and is served with an oversized straw. Thai Thai Scranton offers over twenty flavors of bubble tea, including mango, papaya, strawberry, honeydew and coconut.
By STEPHANIE LONGO For Go Lackawanna
PECKVILLE - After you’ve had your fill of candy, a glass of wine may be just what the doctor ordered to take the edge off of a busy holiday weekend. On April 24 from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m., the Ferrone Family Winery, 505 Main St., Peckville, is unveiling its newest wine flavor, sangria. For a $7 cover, the winery’s sangria party will give peo-
ple the chance not only to taste the new flavor but also to see how it can be used in recipes, including a fruit dip and even London broil. Sunday’s events are part of a weekend-long celebration to help break up an otherwise quiet season, winery owner Tim Ferrone explained. “April, as a wine month, is quiet,” he said. “There isn’t much going on because May is
the month when everything starts off because it is further into the spring and more people are out and about. From February to May it is pretty quiet; after January 2 no one really thinks about drinking wine for a while.” The Ferrone Family Winery, which opened in June 2009, is rapidly gaining a reputation loSee FERRONE, Page 32
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Peckville biz adds sangria to list of wines available
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each Sreesonti, manager of the recently opened Thai Thai Scranton, said he hopes to attract customers with the eatery’s generous portions and humble pricing. “Thai Thai Scranton will be sure to please,” Sreesonti said of his new endeavor at 309 N. Washington Ave., Scranton.
STEPHANIE LONGO PHOTOS / FOR GO LACKAWANNA
Ferrone Family Winery owner Tim Ferrone holds a bottle of the store’s newly introduced sangria.