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Once again we forgot to take a picture before finishing our meal due to the delicious food at Thai Spice in Las Vegas during the 2008 WSOP. (Bodog Beat Image)

Have you ever had one of those experiences where you just wander around town looking for a place to eat and stumble across a little slice of heaven in some heretofore  unknown part of a city? Well, this happened to us last year during the WSOP when we found a Thai place called Thai Basil, or Pepper, or Chili…Thai "something," that was down that one road in that one strip mall on the left corner. So, we tried to find this nostalgic Thai food nirvana last night and failed. Miserably.

We drove up and down and back and forth for about an hour desperately trying to find this place, with every intersection holding the possible keys to our culinary salvation, but no dice. Eventually, we wound up back down close to the Rio and in a different strip mall at a place called Thai Spice, which had been voted best Thai food in Vegas since the beginning of time. We never did find out who the voters were, but whatever, we were hungry.

Upon entering, we sat and ordered some appetizers, including vegetable spring rolls, pot stickers and beef satay, and some Thai beer, Singha (pictured above), to wash it down. We then ordered our entrees, each opting for something different and expecting to share. The waitress became our favorite person in the world when she asked us how spicy we would like our Vegetable Pad Thai with Egg and Tofu and our Pepper Garlic Tofu and Shrimp, instead of just assuming we would want it mild. We went with a seven out of ten.

The food was just spicy enough, a little sweet, the right amount of ground peanuts and bean sprouts to cool the heat and absolutely amazing. Another Singha to help with the sizzling in our mouths, and we passed out into yet another food coma. The second in three days and again only after we snapped the above pic. We may need to find somewhere to excercise….

Stay tuned for more Las Vegas dining suggestions and tips and more live updates from the 2008 WSOP.