'Pye' refers to a paddle used for small boats on the canals in Bangkok that served noodles to people along the canal - that's how they came up with the name for the restaurant. The restaurant is located on 35-13 in Astoria, Queens, and inside, it's a throwback to old Bangkok.
"We actually wanted to remake the 60s and 70s of Thailand - sort of like an old house," says Bird.
The menu features traditional dishes like papaya salad or larb, a spicy ground pork dish, but the emphasis is on street food and noodle soups, like the Sukhothai soup.
Sukhothai soup pulls a bunch of different ingredients together with thin rice noodles that cook in seconds - bean sprouts, roast pork, dried baby shrimp and ground pork - all drowned by a rich chicken broth.