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The article reports that Thai food in Atlanta-resembling in Thai people actually eat on the street and cook in their homes was not served in a restaurant at Decatur's Wat Buddha Bucha temple, a center of Atlanta's Thai and Laotian communities. Topics include worshippers drop food off for the monks and religious holidays-walked the grounds as vendors peddled the kind of dishes; and Thai restaurants, from dime-a-dozen neighborhood joints to orchid-on-myplate luxury operations-but foodwise.