text: Smiling Banana Leaf This small but amazing Thai restaurant is tucked away in Highland Park which is hard to get to without a car As a result I have not heard of this place from any of my college friends Rather it was a graduate student who told my friend about the place and so two nights ago we went to have dinner therennThe restaurant was very small but thankfully not very crowded like Point Brugge Cafe Their menu included noodles fried rice curries and so on Both me and my friend got the red curry It comes with a bowl of rice Apparently they also had purple glutinous rice which I love but we did not get it because I did not know about it until the customers beside us ordered it The next time I go I am going to order that XnnThey allowed us to choose spiciness from I of course wanted a and it was not that spicy at all They definitely gave a lot of curry My friend easily ate bowls of rice for the amount of curry they gave It was very very good I am not sure if I like the bamboo in it though It was kind of over cooked probably because it was canned bamboo or something and the peas and carrots made it seem like they used some frozen vegetable blend which did not go well with the curry But the pork soaked up the smell of the spices really well and overall the curry was just really amazing with the rice I cannot wait to come back again and to try some of their other dishes