I had an excellent chicken curry, with rice, beer, Thai salad and shrimp chips, for $23.

Meals start with a basket of crisp shrimp chips, addictive with the accompanying peanut sauce, just the right mixture of sweet and peppery.

Meals start with a basket of fresh shrimp chips, good by themselves or as vehicles for the gently spiced peanut sauce.

But pass up the rubbery deep-fried stuffed crab claws accompanied by stale shrimp chips and the heavy, greasy fried dumplings with their dull pork filling.

The basket of shrimp chips placed on each table to start is, fortunately, not a sign of things to come.

Like many movie theaters, the theater also sold snacks with also Chinese snacks such as preserved plum, dried cuttlefish, and shrimp chips.

The grilled shrimp chips are pink in color, while seaweed is colored green.

For premeal munching, the Thais have replaced Chinese noodles with shrimp chips.

A basket of crisp shrimp chips with the accompanying peanut sauce is a good way to start.

Among the foods are crispy rice crackers, fried shrimp chips and a bottled white soy sauce salad dressing.