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Sometimes we’ll shop at the Half Price Books on North Lamar only for an excuse to go back to nearby Titaya’s a third time in the same week, because the expansive menu of Thai classics is so gustatorily compelling. Or maybe it’s just how their tom kha soup’s made us, ah, coo-coo for coconuts? (Pro tip: Get the Talay Dancing.)

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