Kao Hom Menu (Update 2025)
Welcome to Kao Hom, a delightful Thai restaurant nestled in Van Nuys, CA. This family-owned gem offers an authentic Thai dining experience, blending savory flavors with a warm, welcoming atmosphere. Here's a glimpse of what to expect from the menu:
- Signature Dishes: Savor classics like Kao Soi, rich in creamy broth and well-cooked egg noodles, and Tom Yum Soup, renowned for its balance of fresh ingredients and spices.
- Vegetarian Options: Flavorful dishes cater to vegans and vegetarians alike, ensuring everyone finds something to love.
- Portion Sizes: Generous servings make every meal worthwhile, whether dining in or opting for takeout.
- Attentive Service: The friendly staff enhances the dining experience, providing personalized recommendations and ensuring guests feel at home.
Kao Hom is perfect for lunch or dinner, making it a vibrant spot for families and friends to gather over delicious Thai cuisine.
Side Orders
Sticky Rice
White Rice
Steamed Vegetable
Vegetarian.
Brown Rice
Fried Rice
Salmon Panang
Salmon filet topped with creamy panang curry bedded with carrots, cabbage, and broccoli served with steamed white rice.
Chicken Teriyaki
Marinated grilled chicken bedded with cabbage, broccoli, and carotid glaze with sweet teriyaki sauce served with steam white rice.
BBQ Pork
Marinated grilled pork with homemade sauce served with spicy Thai sauce.
Special Beef Panang
Stewed beef cooked for 5 hours in a panange sauce.
Soft Shell Crab Kapow
Deepfried soft shell crab sauteed with garlic, basil, chili and bell pepper in homemade house sauce.
Salmon Teriyaki
Grilled salmon bedded with cabbage, broccoli, glazed with sweet teriyaki sauce served with steamed white rice.
Soft Shell Crab Panang
Deepfried soft shell crab over panang curry sauce, steamed broccoli and carrot served with steamed white rice.
Massaman Beef
Stew beef cooked for 5 hours in a roasted peanut and potatoes curry paste
Garlic Salmon
Salmon filet topped with garlic pepper sauce with cabbage, broccoli, and carrot served with steamed white rice.
Massaman Chicken
Drumstick chicken in a roasted peanuts and potatoes curry paste, mild, sweet, and flavorful.
Crying Tiger
Grilled top sirloin with homemade sauce served with spicy Thai sauce.
Spicy Clam
Spicy. Clam stirfry with bell pepper and basil with sweet chili sauce.
Specialties
Soups
Vegetable Soup
Vegetarian. Mixed vegetables and soft tofu cooked in clear broth soup.
Tom Kha Soup Large
Your choice of meat, mushroom, lemongrass, galangal, tomatoes, onion, and key lime leaves boiled together in spicy hot soup with coconut milk.
Po Tak Soup
Seven sea soup. Combination of shrimps, mussels, squid, fillet fish, crab claws, and imitation crab with ginger boiled in lime soup.
Tom Yum Soup Small
Your choice of meat, mushroom, lemongrass, galangal, tomatoes, onion, and key lime leaves boiled together in spicy hot soup.
Tom Kha Soup Small
Your choice of meat, mushroom, lemongrass, galangal, tomatoes, onion, and key lime leaves boiled together in spicy hot soup with coconut milk.
Wonton Soup
Wonton skin stuffed with ground chicken cooked in clear broth soup with chicken and vegetables.
Tom Yum Soup Large
Your choice of meat, mushroom, lemongrass, galangal, tomatoes, onion, and key lime leaves boiled together in spicy hot soup.
Green Curry
Your choice of meat cooked in green curry paste with coconut milk, bamboo shoot, bell pepper, eggplant, and basil.
Roasted Duck Curry
Roasted duck cooked in red curry paste with coconut milk, pineapple, tomatoes, bell pepper, and basil.
Pineapple Curry
Your choice of meat cooked in red curry paste with coconut milk, pineapple, tomatoes, bell pepper, and basil.
Panang Curry
Your choice of meat cooked in panang curry paste with coconut milk, bell pepper, pea and carrot.
Red Curry
Your choice of meat cooked in red curry paste with coconut milk, bamboo shoot, bell pepper, and basil.
Yellow Curry
Your choice of meat cooked in yellow curry paste with coconut milk, carrots, potatoes, and onion.
Curry
StirFried Noodle
Pad See Ew
Big flat rice noodle stirfry with choice of meat, egg, broccoli and seasoned with dark sweet soy sauce.
Chow Mein
Chow mein noodle stirfry with choice of meat and assorted vegetable in homemade sauce.
Pad Cha Seafood Spaghetti
Spaghetti stirfried with white peppercorn, garlic, Thai chilis, Thai basil and grachai finger root.
Spicy Noodles
Spicy. Egg noodle stirfry with choice of meat, bell pepper, green bean and basil seasoned with spicy soy sauce.
Rad Na
Rice noodles with eggs topped with brown gravy with broccoli or Chinese broccoli.
Pad Thai
Thin rice noodle stirfried with choice of meat, egg, green onion, bean sprout in sweet tamarind sauce served with crushed peanut.
Drunken Noodles
Big flat rice noodle stirfry with choice of meat, bell pepper, onion, tomatoes, and basil seasoned with spicy garlic sauce.
Chicken Noodles
Big flat rice noodle stirfry with sliced chicken breast, green onion, bean sprouts seasoned with homemade sauce.
Pad Woon Sen
Glass noodle stirfry with choice of meat, egg and assorted vegetable in homemade sauce.
Perrier
Hot Tea
Jasmine or green tea.
Lemonade
Soda
Coke, diet coke, sprite, dr pepper, sunkist.
Iced Tea
Green or black. No ice and with boba for an additional charge.
Thai Iced Coffee
No ice and with boba for an additional charge.
Thai Iced Tea
No ice and with boba for an additional charge.
Bottled Water
Drinks
Salads
Larb
Choice of ground pork or ground chicken, onions, cilantro, and the essential toasted rice mixed with spicy lime dressing. Add ground beef for an additional charge.
Green Salad
Spring mix, lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, carrots, tofu, and boiled egg topped with crispy noodle with peanut dressing.
Pork Namtok
Shrimp Salad
Grilled shrimp combined with onion, tomatoes, cucumbers, and cilantro mixed with spicy lime dressing and sweet chili paste.
Duck Salad
Roasted duck combined with cucumber, onion, tomatoes, and cilantro mixed with lime dressing and sweet chili paste.
Glass Noodle Salad
Glass noodle, shrimp, grounded chicken, squid, onion, tomatoes, cilantro mixed with delicious spicy lime dressing.
Squid Salad
Steamed squid combined with onion, tomatoes, and cilantro mixed with spicy and sour dressing.
Seafood Salad
Combination seafood shrimp, mussels, imitation crab, squid, and crab claws combined with onion, tomatoes, and cilantro mixed with spicy and sour dressing.
Steak Salad
Grilled tender juicy beef combined with onion, cilantro, tomatoes, cucumbers mixed with spicy lime dressing and sweet chili paste.
Steak Namtok
Tum Thai Tum Isaan
Grated green papaya, tomatoes, carrots, peanuts, and green beans mixed with spicy lime dressing.
Basil Fried Rice
Fried rice with your choice of meat, bell pepper, green bean, and basil in spicy garlic sauce served with cucumber.
Crab Fried Rice
Fried rice with real crab meat lump, egg, scallions, and tomatoes served with cucumbers.
Thai Omelette Over Rice
Thai Omelette With Ground Pork Over Rice
Salted Fish Fried Rice
Fried rice with salted fish Chinese broccoli.
Combination Fried Rice
Fried rice with shrimp, chicken, pork, beef, egg, onion and tomatoes served with cucumber.
Pineapple Fried Rice
Fried curry rice with your choice of meat, egg, pineapple, cashew nut, and raisins.
Thai Fried Rice
Fried rice with your choice of meat, egg, onion, scallions, and tomatoes served with cucumber.
Chicken Over Rice
Poached chicken and seasoned rice, with spicy special sauce.
Rice Dishes
Dessert
Iced Cream Coconut
Served with sweet sticky rice and crushed peanut.
Banana Samosa
Fried banana roll served with ice cream.
Roti
With condensed milk or nutella.
Mango Sticky Rice Seasonal
Mango and sweet sticky rice topped with coconut milk and sesame seeds.
Iced Cream Vanilla
Served with sweet sticky rice and crushed peanut.
Crispy Pork Tom Yum Noodles Soup
Crispy pork, grounded pork, thin rice noodle, and bean sprouts in savory tasty tom yum soup topped with boiled egg, crushed peanut, and crispy noodle.
Pho Beef
Pho Chicken
Chicken Noodle Soup
Sliced chicken breast, thin rice noodle, and bean sprout in clear flavorful broth.
Boat Noodle
Thai style noodle with a rice flavor filled with spices served with sliced beef, beef balls, stew beef.
Khao Soi Curry Noodle
Choice of stew chicken drumsticks or sliced chicken breast and egg noodle in curry broth topped with crispy noodle.
Pho Shrimp
Khao Soi Soft Shell Crab
Soft Shell crab and egg noodle in curry broth topped with crispy noodle.
Tum Yum Noodle
Spicy tangy noodle soup dish thats inspired by tom yum topped with fish cakes, grounds pork, boil egg, and peanuts. With crispy pork add for an additional charge.
Tum Yum Seafood Noodle
Duck Noodle
Noodle Soup
Entrees
Prik King
Your choice of meat sauteed with green bean and bell pepper in homemade curry paste sauce and coconut milk.
Garlic Pepper
Your choice of meat sauteed with garlic and pepper sauce, bed with steamed cabbage, broccoli, and carrot.
Sauteed Fresh Chillies
Your choice of meat sauteed with green chillies, green onion in homemade house sauce.
Sweet And Sour
Your choice of meat sauteed with onion, bell pepper, pineapple, carrots, tomatoes, and cucumber in homemade sweet and sour sauce.
Pad Cha
Herby stirfry with peppercorns, garlic, Thai chilis, Thai basil and Grachai finger root.
Garlic Green Bean
Your choice of meat sauteed with green beans, carrots in garlic sauce.
Mixed Vegetable
Your choice of meat sauteed with free onion, bean sprout, broccoli, cabbage, and carrot in homemade house sauce.
Kung Pao
Your choice of meat sauteed with onion, dried chili, bell pepper, and peanut in sweet chili paste.
Fresh Ginger
Your choice of meat sauteed with onion, fresh ginger, mushroom, and bell pepper in homemade house sauce.
Spicy Eggplant
Spicy. Your choice of meat sauteed with garlic, chili, bell pepper, basil, carrot, onion, and eggplant in homemade house sauce.
Broccoli And Chinese Broccoli With Oyster Sauce
Your choice of meat sauteed with broccoli and carrot in garlic oyster sauce.
Garlic Basil
Your choice of meat sauteed with garlic, bell pepper, green bean and basil in homemade house sauce.
Cashew Nut
Your choice of meat sauteed with onion, dried chili, bell pepper, and cashew nut in sweet chili paste.
Orange Chicken Or Tofu
Crispy chicken or tofu glazed with orange sauce.
Mongolian
Your choice of meat sauteed with bell pepper, fresh mushroom, onion, and carrot in homemade house sauce.
Beef Jerky
Deepfried marinated beef served with spicy sauce.
Crab Cheese 6 Pieces
A version of fried wonton stuffed with imitation crab and cream cheese served with sweet sour sauce.
Egg Rolls 5 Pieces
Deepfried vegetable egg roll served with sweet sour sauce.
Soft Shell Crab
Deepfried soft shell crab with sweet basil on top served with sweet sour sauce.
Angel Wings 3 Pieces
Wings stuffed with seasoned ground chicken, and mushroom, deepfried serve in.
Pork Jerky
Deepfried marinated pork served with spicy sauce.
Beef Satay 5 Pieces
Seasoned beef on skewer and grilled served with peanut sauce and cucumber salad.
Thai Issan Sausage
The mixture of ground pork, garlic, pepper, jasmine rice served on the side with cabbage, chili, ginger, and peanuts.
Fish Cakes 6 Pieces
Mixed together of fish paste, long beans, and red curry paste and deepfried served with sweet sour sauce topped with crushed peanut, cucumber, onion, and serrano.
Chicken Wings 6 Pieces
Crispy and fried to perfection, served with sweet sour sauce.
Fried Wontons
Deepfried wontons stuffed with seasoning chicken served with sweet sour sauce.
Golden Tofu 8 Pieces
Deepfried tofu served with sweet sour sauce topped with crushed peanuts.
Chicken Satay 5 Pieces
Seasoned chicken on skewer and grilled served with peanut sauce and cucumber salad.
Crab Roll
Crab meat mix grounded chicken, deepfried with sweet and sour sauce.
Shumai 6 Pieces
Steamed dumpling filled with tasty pork, scallions, water chestnuts, mushroom, onion, and cilantro served with black sweet sauce.
Shrimp In The Blanket 6 Pieces
Whole seasoning shrimp wrapped in crispy wonton skin served with sweet sour sauce.
Dumplings 7 Pieces
Steamed or fried. Filled with tasty chicken and vegetables served with sweet sour sauce or sweet black sauce.
Sai Ua Northern Thai Sausage
Flavourful sausages with an aromatic curry paste.