This excellent northeastern Thai restaurant in El Cerrito is open for takeout for both lunch and dinner (with only the dinner menu available on weekends). Apart from the assorted meat skewers ...

The Boat Sushi & Thai Cuisine 150 S. Sepulveda Blvd., El Segundo; 310-524-9297, www.theboatelsegundo.com Working your way through the menu at The Boat Sushi & Thai Cuisine can be an exhausting ...

3. Street Thai This tiny cafe makes some of the best Thai salads around. The chef’s salad — ground chicken, grilled shrimp, fresh herbs and toasted coconut — is fantastic.

Around seven-in-ten of all Asian restaurants in the U.S. serve the food of just three Asian origin groups: Chinese, Japanese and Thai. These groups together comprise 33% of the U.S. Asian population.