Boston Hidden Thai Bistro | Super Suitable for Couples' Dates

🍴 Merai 📍 14 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 02445 Not traditional Thai cuisine – very fusion and innovative. The overall flavors have both highlights and milder dishes. The ambiance is truly nice, perfect for drinks and dates, but not recommended if you're solely seeking "extremely delicious" food. 🐟 Crudo The fish is really tender, the mango chili sauce perfectly blends sweet, sour, and spicy – a great appetizer! 🍟 Taro Fries This dish is a real surprise! The exterior is super crispy, while the inside has a smooth taro paste texture – so delicious I wanted to order an extra portion to take away! 🦀 Crab Croquettes Generous amount of crab meat, the exterior is fried to a crisp, and the coconut curry sauce is rich and flavorful – everything comes together wonderfully. 🐮 Yukhoe Korean-style raw beef – the meat is tender but the seasoning is somewhat flat, tastes a bit bland 🐔 Buffalo Wings The meat is very tender, but the seasoning is just average – not bad but not memorable either 🌭 Hot Dog The pork sausage is truly fragrant! Though it may seem small, the sausage is quite large – one is enough to make you feel full. The outer bun is pan-fried especially aromatic with a strong butter flavor 🍄‍🟫 Risotto Full of mushroom flavor, and with the addition of lemon, the overall taste is refreshing and not greasy – the kind that "looks ordinary but becomes more comforting with each bite" 🍝 Rigatoni Beef pasta + Thai chili sauce – the spiciness is just right and very satisfying, overall a "delicious fusion style" 🐟 Ochazuke Somewhat like Japanese tea泡饭, the broth is fresh and very comforting to have in winter 🐔 Chicken Rice Tastes more like Korean sweet-spicy style, the chicken is very tender, and the rice is wrapped inside 🍹 Melon Quite ordinary, couldn't taste the melon flavor 🍹 Larb Weird aftertaste, not recommended 🍹 Strawberry Cheesecake The strawberry flavor isn't strong but its salty cream cap is delicious! 🍹 Cold Tea The best cocktail of the night! Refreshing and not heavy, the ginger flavor is just right – perfect for cutting through the richness after eating 🍰 Kopi-misu Can't really taste the Thai tea flavor, the cake itself is a bit hard 💰 Per person: $60 #BostonEats #BostonFoodGuide #ThaiCuisine #WineBar #AtmosphereDining #Boston #BostonStudyAbroad #BostonWeekend #StudentFoodReview