Ghin Khao Eat Rice sits on West Cermak Road in the Lower West Side, run by siblings Nova and Kami Sasi. Their family owned Lanna Thai in Edgewater from the eighties into the mid-nineties, and both grew up around that restaurant before Nova eventually opened his own place, shaped by repeated trips back to Thailand and his own sense of how the food should taste.
The menu runs on scratch cooking and dishes built for sharing, chasing the sweet-salty-bitter-spicy-sour balance that defines Thai food. Grandma's pork belly — thin slices fried at the front of the restaurant for a crisp crust over a soft, fatty interior — is the dish most often singled out.
Michelin awarded Ghin Khao Eat Rice a Bib Gourmand in its Chicago guide.
The menu runs on scratch cooking and dishes built for sharing, chasing the sweet-salty-bitter-spicy-sour balance that defines Thai food. Grandma's pork belly — thin slices fried at the front of the restaurant for a crisp crust over a soft, fatty interior — is the dish most often singled out.
Michelin awarded Ghin Khao Eat Rice a Bib Gourmand in its Chicago guide.