thai food

Haha! That's brilliant, Jaymc.

should be more like "chop suey != chinese food."

whoops. XD

search (sf bay area):
thep phanom on waller/fillmore, sf
lotus thai on piedmont ave, oak
royal thai, downtown san rafael

can anyone recommend/ or describe the taste of thai pineapple rice?

i have been broke for like a week now and have been surviving of Thanksgiving leftovers and stolen bagels from work.
i buddy at work is getting Thai food for lunch and offered to buy me some. i am in such need of a good meal and all this thai food sounds sooo good right now that i can't decide what to get. Help me!

wtf? pad see mow and tom kah soup duh.

get with it man.

dude, i'm just a little overwhelmed with the prospects of a good meal

i want to eat it all

kha mu (thai pork with galangal)

Kaeng Kua Phak Gai (chicken and winter melon curry)

pad kee mao (drunky rice)

tom ka gai (coconut and chicken soup)

had last night:
tom yum soup
isaan sausage
crispy duck salad
pad kee mow noodles

the isaan sausage was the only thing i've never tried before, it was sooo good especially with the slices of fresh ginger and red onion

i'm doing my presentation on THAI TOWN this afternoon -- wish me luck! maybe thai for dinner tonight to celebrate.

Tom yum soup is so ultimate.

where'd you go bell labs? Just two nights ago, while eating amazing chicken massaman curry at Srip, I mentioned how I've never had thai sausage, even though it's always one of the recommended things.

we went to zabb city.
we gotta get back to sri soon though.

sausage was excellent, not at all skanky.

tom yum is the best soup ever.

I'll get the sausage next time I go to one of the Zabbs, maybe Zabb city pre-Dazzle Ships next week. The one in queens near me is open till 2am though, so maybe I'll go late this weekend. I've recently tried both Nasura and Chao thai in elmhurst...both super authentic, though I preferred Nasura.

I took a chance at Zabb once and got a crispy rice and pork skin dish. I think I mixed the words up in my head and thought it was a crispy pork dish. It wasn't. The rice was crispy, and awesome. The pork skin was, well, pork skin, and the texture really freaked me out. I can be a real food wimp. I got scolded for not eating enough of the pork.

zabb city is becoming a weekly thing, it's so convenient. though i should get off my ass and go to queens, i want to try the new isaan place on broadway (i forget what it's called, it is close to where le sans souci used to be)

Poodam or something. I keep forgetting about that, it's about a 2 minute drive from my place.

arunee!

I haven't tried arunee yet but am planning, it'll complete my "authentic thai food of queens" tour.

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hey there's a coincidence, I made tom kha gai tonight (greatest wintertime comfort food evar)

Never had that!

Made chicken in green curry tonight, first time I feel like I kinda pulled it off. Thanking self.

Never had that!

You are SO missing out.

Looking over a few recipes for this, looks reallly good. I gotta track down some galangal...

my gurl always orders this tom kha
she like

I load up on galangal whenever I'm in Atlanta -- always worth a side trip to H Mart.

I made tom kha gai tonight

wow, made it today. and yellow curry. the whole house smells but in a good way

Thai experts: does a pad thai normally come in a sweetish sauce? Every Thai place I've been in the UK (admittedly not many) does it slightly differently, some the sauce is far too sweet and overwhelms the whole thing; my favourite is one that's basically dry (but with lots of lime juice and flavour).

Tried using a pad thai sauce from a jar (in the US; not seen them in UK) and it was just bland and sweet. Love love love all other Thai food I've tried, though, can't believe I've only been to two Thai restaurants since I moved to SF!

ime pad thai varies pretty widely in the us. i hate when it's really sauce-y and sweet, should be more dry i think. i can't imagine making it using a prepared sauce.

does usually call for tamarind paste in the sauce which is mad sweet

yep def better when on the dry side. if a forkful of it drips, that's too much sauce.

xp the sweetness should be in balance with the spiciness and saltiness tho, like in basically every thai dish. americans are known to prefer sweet things and lots of places will up the sweetness in their dishes to appease/lure them.

yeah i use tamarind, it's not that kind of sweet that's bad though it's too much added sugar

i had some really nice Pad Kee Mao the other day from a pretty mediocre restaurant. it might be my new favorite fried noodle dish.

was in bangkok for 5 days a couple of weeks ago + holy shit that city has so much good food

omg made a jungle curry that is destroying my insides as we speak

i'm just being stupid, forget it