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Hot Pink Thai Cuisine on San Pedro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Black socks and sandals, mixing plaids and polka dots, middle-aged men wearing trousers up to their nipples, T-shirts that accentuate the “spare tire” look, fat guys wearing culottes… If there’s a fashion faux-pas out there, you can bet some of us XY-chromosome-enabled fashion Luddites have committed it and then some. When it comes to fashion, many of us are as clueless as a pirate wearing two eye patches. There is, however, one fashion statement we won’t make. Among the six to seven shirts hanging (wrinkles and all) in our closets, none will be the color pink. Nor will they be salmon, carnation, rose, Amaranth or any other shade of pink fashionistas invented in an effort to get us to wear pink.<\/p>\n

For men, the only pink thing that’s really cool (despite what we tell our wives and girlfriends about their pink “unmentionables”) is the Pink Panther. You know, the Pink Panther…the “one and only, truly original, Panther-pink (panther) from head to toe<\/em>.” Men have a very special affinity for the “rinky-dink<\/em>” Pink Panther. “He really is a groovy cat and what a gentleman, a scholar, what an acrobat<\/em>!” He’s everything we want to be, but aren’t cool enough to pull it off. Alas, they don’t make intellectual cartoons like that any more. Thank goodness for DePatie-Freleng (whoever they are) and United Artists for syndication.<\/p>\n

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Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Perhaps only in Thailand do men not have an aversion to wearing the color pink. Traditionally every day of the week is assigned specific colors, some of which are considered lucky or auspicious and others which are deemed unlucky. Tuesday\u2019s lucky color, for example, is pink while the day\u2019s unlucky colors are yellow and white. On Wednesday, however, pink reverts to an unlucky color. In 2007, pink gained even more popularity because a Thai astrologer advised the ailing king to wear pink in order to heal quickly and remain in good health (in the pink, so to speak). As a result, millions rushed to purchase pink polo shirts. (Hmm, will America embrace pink pantsuits should Kamala win an election?)<\/p>\n

We\u2019re always tickled pink when we hear of a new Thai restaurant in Albuquerque and were especially intrigued to learn of one sporting the curious appellation Hot Pink Thai Cuisine. We wondered if the \u201chot\u201d part of its name was meant to bring additional luck on Tuesdays or perhaps it’s a description of the piquancy level. Hot Pink, it turns out, is a rechristening of the Thai Cuisine Express restaurant and is located in a small shopping center on San Pedro about a block north of Menaul. Though we\u2019d never visited Thai Cuisine Express, we were acquainted with its reputation for serving perhaps the most incendiary Thai food in the Duke City.<\/p>\n

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Fish Cakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ironically our inaugural tarriance at Hot Pink occurred just before it was visited by Howie \u201cThe Duke of Duke City\u201d Kaibel<\/a><\/strong>, the erstwhile Albuquerque Community Manager for Yelp<\/a><\/strong>. Howie\u2019s spot-on assessment: \u201cVirtually nothing else changed with the name switch aside from, ironically, the spice level. They wussed out on me, man. It used to be that around here, “Thai Hot” translated to “engulf your mouth” and, later, your innards. No longer. They’ve gone temperate, or Not So Hot Pink. So if you’re a heat junkie, like moi, make sure to emphasize your foodie demise<\/em>.\u201d In his usual eloquent and balanced manner, he also noted that: \u201cOtherwise, this remains a solid place to get comparatively fresh ingredients and solid interpretations of Thai standards<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Grrr! Had I read Howie\u2019s review earlier, it would have been \u201cThai hot\u201d for me instead the less incendiary just \u201chot,\u201d but I digress. Hot Pink Thai Cuisine is Lilliputian in size (four four-tops and one two-top for a capacity of sixteen eat-in diners), but all-enveloping aromas emanate from its kitchen. Step into the restaurant and the mingling of exotic Thai sauces, spices, vegetables and proteins has the pull of a seductive siren. Walls are tastefully appointed though orange (Thursday\u2019s lucky color) is more prevalent than pink. Elephants, the official national symbol of Thailand, festoon the walls (along with Buddha and the requisite pictures of the Thai royal family) though there are no pink pachyderms anywhere.<\/p>\n

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Vegetarian Egg Rolls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Peruse the menu and you\u2019ll espy many of the \u201cusual suspects\u201d found at every Thai restaurant in town. You\u2019ll also find some items (such as the pumpkin curry) which aren\u2019t quite as commonplace. The menu not only lists and describes each item, but includes full color photographs which may have you drooling before you even place your order. The menu proudly proclaims \u201cwe do not add MSG to any of our products or our recipes<\/em>” and more audaciously warns that \u201cSelection of Thai Hot are irreversible. Management accepts no responsibility for side effects on any spice level<\/em>.\u201d Methinks the latter warning may be unnecessary based on what I (and Howie) experienced.<\/p>\n

23 July 2016<\/strong>: The reasons men don\u2019t wear pink aren\u2019t solely esthetic. They\u2019re practical, too. Spillage, particularly of messy sauces, is something at which men are especially adept (largely attributable to our enthusiasm for what we\u2019re eating). Spillage would be as conspicuous on a pink shirt as the plumage of a peacock is during mating season. With chicken satay, we should all wear bibs because there\u2019s bound to be spillage. Hot Pink\u2019s chicken satay<\/em><\/strong>, a very delicious poultry Popsicle, is laden with curry, a key component of which is turmeric (which gives satay its characteristic yellow color). Four skewers per order are served with a peanut sauce and a cucumber sauce, both of which are on the sweet side and messy.<\/p>\n

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Pad Thai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

23 July 2016<\/strong>: On Fridays during Lenten season, salmon patties were a frequent guest at our family table. With enough salsa they were palatable, but nowhere in the deliciousness vicinity of Thai fish cakes<\/strong><\/em>, a common street food in Thailand. Thai fish cakes would proverbially kick sand on American fish cakes. Sliced into small pieces, the fish cakes are bite-sized morsels of concentrated flavor with spices and herbs complementing the fish. Lightly breaded and pleasantly piquant, they\u2019re a perfect foil for the accompanying cucumber sauce whose sweet notes play very well against the savory, briny, spicy fish cakes. My Kim who doesn\u2019t especially like seafood polishes these off with alacrity.<\/p>\n

21 March 2026<\/strong>:\u00a0 China may have invented the egg roll, but it’s other Asian culinary cultures who have perfected it.\u00a0 I’d be hard-pressed to list a truly outstanding egg roll from a Chinese restaurant, but can point out several from Vietnamese, Thai and Filipino (lumpia is a type of egg roll) restaurants.\u00a0 Among the very best are the vegetarian egg rolls<\/strong><\/em> from Hot Pink.\u00a0 \u00a0These egg rolls are prepared to order which means they may be too-hot-to-handle when they arrive at your table.\u00a0 Dipping them into the accompanying sweet-and-sour (mostly sweet) doesn’t cool them off much.\u00a0 As with most Thai egg rolls, the crunchy, crispy wrappers are generously stuffed with ingredients so finely minced that it’s difficult to discern what they are.\u00a0 \u00a0Don’t waste time trying to figure out the delicious amalgam.\u00a0 These egg rolls deserve your full enjoyment and attention–once they cool down enough to eat.<\/p>\n

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Pumpkin Curry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

23 July 2016<\/strong>: Because our visits to Pad Thai<\/strong><\/a>(the restaurant) on the Talin Market<\/strong><\/a>complex rewarded us with the best Pad Thai (the dish) we\u2019ve had in New Mexico, my Kim is adamant that lightning can strike twice, that there may be more than one Pad Thai<\/em><\/strong> worth ordering. Hot Pink\u2019s rendition of this overwhelmingly popular Thai staple, while good, pales in comparison to Pad Thai\u2019s eponymous dish. This stir-fried Thai noodle dish made with egg, peanuts, shallots, sprouts and pork (Kim\u2019s choice) is prepared in a moderate amount of oil, meaning it\u2019s not nearly as greasy as some Pad Thai tends to be. The tender noodles contrast nicely with the sprouts, but this is not a dish in which you necessarily evaluate how ingredients work in smaller combinations. This is a dish you enjoy as a composite, a whole, a compilation of several ingredients which work well together.<\/p>\n

23 July 2016<\/strong>: We\u2019ve only found a couple of restaurants in Albuquerque who serve pumpkin curry<\/em> and one of them has closed down. It was, therefore, a thrill to find pumpkin curry<\/strong><\/em> at the Hot Pink. That thrill was exacerbated by the freshness of the pumpkin. This was not mushy canned pumpkin, but fresh pumpkin which the purveyors scoured the city to find. The pumpkin luxuriates in a large bowl of red curry made wonderfully fragrant and delicious with herbs and spices simmered in a rich and creamy coconut milk enriched with basil leaves, lime leaves, bell pepper and zucchini. If you\u2019re a bona-fide fire eater, go for the \u201cThai hot.\u201d Even my Kim, whose tolerance for heat extends only as far as Pace Picante Sauce, found the merely \u201chot\u201d to be rather tepid.<\/p>\n

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Green Curry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

21 March 2026<\/strong>:\u00a0 Signage throughout Hot Pink asks diners to be patient.\u00a0 That’s because everything is made to order.\u00a0 Every item arrives at your table so fresh and hot that you’ll have no doubt they were prepared just for you.\u00a0 Recalling my disappointment during my inaugural visit to Hot Pink Thai because the pumpkin curry wasn’t as hot as the volcano that sunk Krakatoa, I asked for green curry<\/strong><\/em> at the Thai hot during my second go-round.\u00a0 It was outstanding!\u00a0 Not only was the level of heat amped up significantly, the curry wasn’t dessert-sweet.\u00a0 The steaming bowl of this aromatically herbaceous elixir was replete with Thai basil, red peppers, bamboo shoots and eggplant as well as my requested protein (pork).\u00a0 I alternate between curries because they’re all my favorites.\u00a0 Thanks to Hot Pink’s rendition, green curry is my current favorite).<\/p>\n

21 March 2026<\/strong>:\u00a0 \u00a0Hot Pink Thai has a large number of stir-fried noodle dishes that can be prepared to your preferred level of heat (no chili, mild, medium, hot or Thai hot).\u00a0 My Kim and I are at polar opposites.\u00a0 Give me hellfire hot every time.\u00a0 She prefers her Thai food no hotter than ketchup.\u00a0 Hot Pink can accommodate both palate types.\u00a0 Though it probably would have been even better with Thai peppers, the Pad See Iew<\/strong><\/em> (stir-fried wide rice noodles with Thai soy sauce seasoning, garlic, egg, carrot and broccoli. Choice of protein) is quite good.\u00a0 The width of the noodles is akin to Italian pappardelle, one of our favorite types of pasta.\u00a0 My Kim’s choice of protein was pork.\u00a0 Every bite of pork was perfect.\u00a0 Have you ever noticed that in Thai and Vietnamese restaurants you almost never find fatty or sinewy protein?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pad See Ew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thank goodness for mangoes being \u201cin season\u201d because that means we can have mangoes with sticky rice<\/em><\/strong>, our very favorite Thai dessert. Made with steamed glutinous rice (that sometimes clumps) mixed with coconut milk and topped with mango slices, it is an addictive dessert\u2014even if you don\u2019t eat it the traditional way. That would be, rolling the rice with your fingers and scooping up mango slices, a rather messy way to eat anything. Hot Pink\u2019s version is a wonderful way to finish a very satisfying meal.<\/p>\n

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Mangoes With Sticky Rice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While most men may not like the color pink in our fashion ensemble, most of us will like the Hot Pink Thai Cuisine restaurant\u2026especially if when we dial up the heat level.<\/p>\n

Hot Pink Thai Cuisine<\/strong>
\n2626 San Pedro, N.E.
\nAlbuquerque, New Mexico<\/strong>
\n(505) 872-2296<\/span><\/span>
\nFacebook Page<\/strong><\/a>
\nLATEST VISIT<\/strong>: 21 March 2026
\n1st VISIT<\/strong>:\u00a0 23 July 2016
\n# OF VISITS<\/strong>: 2
\nRATING<\/strong>: Excellent<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u2013 High quality dining experience; very good to excellent food, attentive service, and a well-maintained atmosphere; worth a detour.
\nCOST<\/strong>: $$
\nBEST BET<\/strong>: Mangoes with Sticky Rice, Pumpkin Curry, Chicken Satay, Fish Cakes, Pad Thai, Green Curry, Pad See Ew, Vegetarian Egg Rolls<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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