NUA is a Thai restaurant at 337 Victoria Street in Hamilton Central, run by a head chef and co-founder who are both from Thailand. The website says the menu brings the food of four regions of Thailand to Hamilton, and it calls NUA the only traditional Thai restaurant in town.
The menu includes grilled marinated whole chicken with a secret dipping sauce, a hot and spicy Isaan pork bone soup, pad thai, whole deep-fried fish with fish sauce, som tum, and slow-cooked lamb massaman curry, which the kitchen cooks for about three hours. There is also a gaeng khua prik, a water-based curry with pork ribs and no coconut milk. A lunch menu is served alongside the regular menu, and there are vegetarian options. Big group bookings can be arranged, and the restaurant takes table reservations by phone on 07-838 2942.
Open Locally lists 12 other restaurants within a kilometre. Palate Restaurant is the closest at 0.0 km, and Mr. Pickles Bar & Eatery and Moo's table are both 0.1 km away. little honey eatery is 0.2 km away.