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Interesting how this Thai restaurant in Detroit decided to choose it's name.
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Detroit's hottest new restaurant, Katoi, is in an old auto mechanic shop, a boxy, whitewashed, cinder-block building that's easy to miss.
No matter. Detroit's food-savvy crowds have found Katoi. Most evenings, you'll find them standing in a line that stretches out the door, happily waiting their turn for a meal of creative, Thai-inspired food in the city's resurging Corktown neighborhood.
Inside, green and pink neon lights bounce off walls slathered with decades of coats of industrial paint. Guests chat excitedly with wait staff about the menu, the building and even the meaning of Katoi itself.
"It means 'ladyboy,'" a waiter explains to the diners sitting near me. "We asked ourselves, 'What do we think of when we think of Thailand?' And it was, you know, ladyboys."
No matter. Detroit's food-savvy crowds have found Katoi. Most evenings, you'll find them standing in a line that stretches out the door, happily waiting their turn for a meal of creative, Thai-inspired food in the city's resurging Corktown neighborhood.
Inside, green and pink neon lights bounce off walls slathered with decades of coats of industrial paint. Guests chat excitedly with wait staff about the menu, the building and even the meaning of Katoi itself.
"It means 'ladyboy,'" a waiter explains to the diners sitting near me. "We asked ourselves, 'What do we think of when we think of Thailand?' And it was, you know, ladyboys."
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