Rice and Spice II Offers Authentic Thai Street Food

The West End Alexandria location opened earlier this year at the Plaza at Landmark.

Nuthinepan “Natalie” Tantivejakul grew up amid the street food vendors of Thailand. Now, she’s bringing authentic Thai street food to Alexandria’s West End. Tantivejakul opened Rice and Spice Thai Cuisine II earlier this year at the Plaza at Landmark, located at the intersection of Little River Turnpike and Beauregard Street. She and her husband and executive chef, Boonrod “Rod” Yotmanee, had fallen in love with the area and its myriad ethnic groups. “This is a Thai street food menu,” Tantivejakul said. “And we want to have as essential, for the Thai people to eat here, or the Vietnamese, or Chinese, people who have been to Thailand and they want the street food. That’s what we feature here. We don’t want to have the taste of American — …

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