Soi Snacks – blogTO – Toronto

Soi Snacks is a spot for Thai pizza and other Thai street foods, holed up in the back of the hauntingly empty King Square Mall in Markham. 

Use your imagination and it feels as if you’ve happened upon the snack stand on a quiet side street in Bangkok, this is what Soi means in Thai after all – a street branching off a major street. 

Sure, in reality, that side street is just a long hall in a recently-built, massive Chinese commercial centre sorely missing retailers and other restaurants due to the pandemic, but the food is authentic all the same.

Sherry Papa was previously behind Soi Thai, Shanee and Dee, all Thai restaurants that are shuttered now, before opening here to bring flavours of her birthplace to the city with an all-new menu inspired by her past restaurant endeavours. 

Papa’s favourite part of the job is getting to see people’s first reactions to…