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Kung Fu Plaza’s Las Vegas restaurant menus have over 800 Thai food and Chinese food dishes to choose from during your endeavor to find food in Las Vegas. Whether its our famous Mongolian Beef, to the Thai food staple, Pad Thai, our Thai Master Chef will WOW you every time. Our Las Vegas Thai and Las Vegas Chinese Appetizer selection will make life a little difficult due to the depth of its choices, from the simple Thai Spring Egg Rolls, our Chinese Crab Rangoon, to the Thai Stuffed Chicken Wings, and Thai style Fried Fish Cakes, to the Spicy Thai Beef Salad, Thai Chicken Satae’, or Thai Beef Jerky. We hand roll our own Spring Egg-Rolls fresh daily, and they are never frozen. All...

Kung Fu Plaza, which is the oldest and most authentic Thai restaurant in Las Vegas, has become the first Asian restaurant to become a Certified Angus Beef licensee among Las Vegas restaurants. The certification was approved after a six-month review process by Sysco. Sysco is one of the largest food distributors in the world, with 89 broad-line operating companies distributing a full line of food products and non-products. The company also distributes a wide variety of specialty fresh-from-the-field flavor to kitchens and restaurants. This includes custom-cut steaks and other meat. “The certifying company reviewed our purchases for six months and visited our establishment during this period to make sure we were only using certified beef products,” said Alan Wong, general manager of Kung Fu...

If you follow any cooks and chefs whatsoever, you probably have heard the name Paula Deen. She is a Savannah, Georgia, caterer turned restaurateur turned cooking show host. She has had several shows in fact, including Paula’s Home Cooking and Paula’s Party. The initial appeal of Deen was her rags to riches story. After her husband left her, she started a catering business in Savannah for $200 that primarily sold sack-lunches. They were so popular that she saved up enough money to open a restaurant in early 1990 before landing her own homestyle cooking show. But just because Deen is the queen of Southern cooking and anti-chef of the Food Network (being self-taught), that doesn’t mean she eats fried food daily. In fact, although...

There is plenty of buzz surrounding the opening of Pok Pok in New York City, which is the Thai restaurant owned by James Beard Award-winning chef Andy Ricker. New York seems excited. It started in Portland a few years ago when Ricker decided to bring a taste of Southeast Asia (North and Northeast Thailand) to Portland. The creations he made were surprisingly good for a non-Thai native, but maybe not surprising for someone who has studied the cuisine for 20 years in Thailand. It’s not uncommon for him to invest as much as one full year learning a single dish. And this is very likely the reason The New York Times called Ricker the ambassador for Thai food in the United States. “It might...