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Bai Tong Thai Food
About Bai Tong Thai Food
Thai cooking travels well, which is one reason nearly every Canadian downtown has a room like this one. Bai Tong Thai Food sits at 275 Bernard Avenue, mid-block on the main street of downtown Kelowna, a short walk from the offices, the museums and the waterfront parks at the bottom of the hill.
Heat is the thing to negotiate. Kitchens calibrate spice differently, and a request for medium in one room lands nowhere near medium in another, so be specific rather than brave, particularly when you are ordering for a table with mixed tolerance. Fish sauce, shrimp paste and oyster sauce turn up in dishes that read as vegetarian at first glance, so vegetarians and anyone with a shellfish allergy are better off asking than assuming. Kitchens on this street keep their own schedules, so it is worth checking before you set out for a late lunch. If you are driving the food back up the hill, curries and soups travel far better in a container than anything fried, which goes soft within about ten minutes of leaving the kitchen.
Downtown is the easiest part of Kelowna to get around on foot, and this address is central to it. Street parking is metered and the lots behind Bernard fill on event nights at the waterfront, so allow a few extra minutes through July and August. Anyone driving in from Rutland, Glenmore or the Lower Mission has a straightforward run, though the final few blocks are the slowest once the summer crowds arrive.
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