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Upper Qube
intu Metrocentre
Gateshead
NE11 9YG
0191 594 6420
www.thaikhun.co.uk
When was the last time you ate “street food” on an actual street?
It’s one thing to get a bunch of food vans and stalls together at events such as Newcastle’s upcoming Craft Beer Calling festival (which I’m very much looking forward to this October), or those much-missed Boiler Shop Steamers, but it’s stretching things to the point of snapping to serve up small dishes in an actual bricks and mortar restaurant and call it street food. Yet that’s how Thaikhun describes itself.
‘Our vision and passion is to bring authentic Thai street food from the streets of Bangkok to the streets of the UK,’ enthuses its website.
Sadly, the Metrocentre on a Monday evening feels about as far from street as it’s possible to be.
