Tik’s Thai Express is located at 2808 Colonel Glenn Highway, Fairborn, across from Wright State University. The restaurant is owned by Siriya “Tik” Sripol, who helped introduce Thai cuisine to the Yummy Burger, a downtown Dayton diner, in 2004, then became co-owner of Ban Thai restaurant in the Beaver Valley Shopping Center in Beavercreek in 2005. Students in a hurry drop in on weekdays for the lunch buffet ($5.95-$6.95), but don’t miss this restaurant’s Pad Thai ($7.95) or its nod-to-Western-tastes Thai Bourbon Chicken ($8.95), grilled chicken bathed in a slightly sweet sauce and served with mixed vegetables and rice. Tik’s excels at curries as well, with choices that include red, green, Massaman and Panang curry (all $7.95).

-By Mark Fisher, Staff Writer
ActiveDayton.com