New Thai restaurant opens in Murrells Inlet. The menu includes catfish curry
A new Thai restaurant opened in Murrells Inlet near the former mall site.
Thai Fusion, 920 Inlet Square Drive, opened on Aug. 21 with more customers than expected.
“It surprised me, I did not expect that many people,” owner Tee Buss said on Aug. 22. “We had more people today than yesterday.”
Thai Fusion took over the building where New York Diner used to reside. Buss said he wanted to open a restaurant in Murrells Inlet since there is little to no authentic Thai food in the area.
Buss said he used to own Bangkok House in the 1980s but since Thai food was not popular then, sold the restaurant. Recently he wanted to get back into the restaurant business.
He teamed up with a Thai chef who has worked in restaurants across the country, including Colorado and North Carolina.
Thai Fusion serves classics like pad Thai, red curry and Tom-Kha soup. Unique menu highlights include catfish pad prik king, which comes with a catfish filet stir fried with bell peppers, lime and basil leaves, prik king sauce and ground peanuts, and the papaya salad, which has shredded green papaya tossed with garlic, Thai chili, tomatoes, lime juice and fish sauce.
The restaurant is open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. then closes and reopens from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
