CHEF Oyy (right) and friends show off their delicious Thai cuisine from Thammada in New Toronto. Photos by Tom Godfrey.
Thai chef Oyy Tiwaporn loves food and dreamed of opening her own restaurant.
Oyy believes that ordinary Thai food can be extraordinary and her Thammada Thai Cuisine, at 2888 Lake Shore Blvd. W., near Sixth Street, is receiving rave reviews.
CHEF Oyy (left) with delicious Thai meals that are loved by area residents.
Thammada, which means simple, is one of the newer eateries in New Toronto, and residents seem to love its delicious ‘home-cooking style’ cuisine.
“All our dishes are natural and we cook our food on the spot,” says Oyy. “Our food is just like your mom’s cooking at home.”
WHAT a delicious dish. It was great.
She learned about spices and preparing traditional dishes from watching her mother and grandmother cook as a child in Thailand.
Oyy moved to Canada almost 30 years ago and began working on her dream. She loves Etobicoke and lives with her family in the Humber Bay Shores area.
Thammada is her second restaurant. She also owns Simply Thai, popular with High Park area residents at 2253 Bloor Street W., which has won several awards for its food and services.
“Thammada is a different restaurant because we bring home-style cooking to you,” she explains. “Here you can create your own menu and like street food we cook on the spot.”
Oyy says “as ordinary as Thai street food may seem, it always amazes us with extraordinary flavors and brings so much joy to the table.”
She has the phrase ‘Be Extraordinary’ lit in neon lights inside the restaurant to remind customers of her cooking. The restaurant is clean, cozy and comfortable. A licence to sell alcohol is being obtained.
“Our name Thammada may mean ‘simple” but our food is quite extraordinary,” Oyy says. “All our food is cooked with passion and love,”
Well-known business owner Lydia is a lunch time regular.
“They are nice people and the food is all fresh and very tasty,” Lydia says. “The food is authentic and you can taste the ginger and other spices.”
Area resident Susanna described the Pad Thai meal as one of the better Thai dishes she has had.
“The food is very tasty and cooked in genuine Thai style with lots of spices,” she says. “I would go back and recommend this place to my friends.”
Also available is all your Thai favourites as Khao Soi, Pad Se Ew, with flat big rice noodles, egg and Chinese broccoli, which is a foodie favourite.
The restaurant has received hundreds of reviews which are mostly in the 4.5 out of five range.
You can reach Thammada at 647-398-2978 or orders can be placed online by visiting www.thammada.online