Kao Keng - Thai
Shinjuku ****

Address - Shinjuku-ku, Kabuki-cho 1-3-2 Opening hours After five. Closed on weekends Telephone 3200-2932 Map Yes. CC No

Kao Keng is not the sort of restaurant for the finicky. It is one of the dirty joints at the so-called Yatai-Mura in Kabuki-cho frequented mostly by Thai girls and their Japanese friends, and you can easily imagine the rats crawl on the tables at night. I am not squeamish, but I did feel just a little queasy about eating there, and that made it a tad difficult to enjoy the undeniably excellent food prepared by the cook, a Thai woman of undefinable age. The menu is only in Japanese and Thai, but the pictures are informative enough.