Thai food always offers some healthy options and Mike Thai in Mesa, Arizona makes it tasty.  The staff is friendly, professional and very informative about all things having to do with Thailand.  The servers provide thorough explanations of how they prepare their authentic curry dishes.

The spice scale is the usual 1-5, but for the real deal get "Thai hot".  A friend who traveled to Thailand recently said that Mike Thai is authentic, so rest assured, the servers know what that means. A delicious, mild soup accompanies each lunch entrée, simmering with fresh crisp vegetables and small pieces of chicken and tofu.

A variety of vegetables, peas, carrots, celery, cauliflower, and onions are featured in the soup. For a healthy main course, green curry is cooked with coconut milk, eggplant, bamboo shoots, green beans, green curry paste, and Thai basil, served with white rice.  The curry blends nicely with the rice and veggies so it’s not too spicy, and the usually strong curry flavor doesn’t overpower the taste of the fresh vegetables, especially the fresh basil.

This offers another opportunity to enjoy the variety of vegetables and herbs used in Thai cooking.  Portions are more than enough for a satisfying, yet healthy lunch or dinner, and the price is very reasonable. After two delicious meals and a couple bowls of soup, it’s hard to imagine that there could still be room for dessert.  However, that's one of the great things about Mike Thai.

It's healthy food and not so filling that a nap is required after dining.  The sticky rice with mango is a fairly healthy dessert with fresh, perfectly ripened sliced mangos tucked beside the sticky rice, sprinkled with sesame seeds, and served in a beautiful pedestal bowl.  This tastes like a healthy dessert with the mango and sesame seeds, but the sticky rice is just sweet enough to remind one that it is a decadent treat.