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Batik

200 Main St.
Gaithersburg, MD 20878

301-869-8661

Neighborhood: Gaithersburg

Cuisines: Thai, Tapas/Small Plates, Pan-Asian, Malaysian/Indonesian

Price Range: Inexpensive

Dress: Informal

Noise Level: Chatty

Reservations: Not Needed

Website: http://www.batikasiancuisine.com/

Best Dishes:
Pork dumplings with cabbage; sweet potato/ginger/squash dumplings; Madras Magic dumplings; firecracker shrimp; skewered pork; mee goreng; chicken stir-fried with basil; Malita sticky rice.

Dirt Cheap Eats 2009: Batik

By: Ann Limpert, Todd Kliman, Kate Nerenberg, Rina Rapuano

A recent arrival to Kentlands, this likable restaurant embodies the culinary Zeitgeist: stylish but not trendy, exotic but accessible.

Chef Yan Yu has fashioned an appealing menu of street foods from Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia, and the owners have concocted a pretty, bamboo-bedecked setting. The hawker-style dishes, including juicy steamed dumplings and glazed satays, are the most fun. Nothing tops $14.

Open daily for lunch and dinner.

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