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Restaurant Eating in Chiang Mai

November 28, 2008
Restaurant Eating in Chiang Mai

While I actually do believe that man can survive on street food alone, at moments in our trip, I was inspired to try the occasional eating establishment housed in an actual building. I do, however, use the term “building” rather loosely. There was always a roof, though not always made of solid materiel, though only one of the three actually had walls. The first restaurant we hit up was Huen Phen. I had been told that lunch was the time to go here, as opposed to dinner, as that was when the Thai people actually ate there. So I complied. Rows...

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Why I’m Thankful for Chiang Mai

November 27, 2008
Why I’m Thankful for Chiang Mai

Upon departing Bangkok on the cartoon-character-mascoted Nok Air, which my father creepily insisted on calling “Nookie Air,” I was looking forward to a smaller city and some more accessible delicious foods. The plane food, to assure you it is no better there than here, was an Auntie Annie’s pretzel that may have been baked sometime in the 20th century. Sure enough when we got to Chiang Mai, our taxi could not even make to the hotel because of the enormous parade in honor of the Loy Krathang Festival. We barely sat our stuff down before we were out on...

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I’m Home…and the First of the Food Pics: Bangkok

November 25, 2008
I’m Home…and the First of the Food Pics: Bangkok

Well, I’m back! The first thing I did upon returning was to catch up on the new episodes of Top Chef and cook a little bit. My food was terrible–you don’t think about it, but not cooking for a while, you get out of practice, little things didn’t happen as automatically as they ought to. But I’m sure that its like riding a bike, I’ll be fine by tomorrow. Now to what you’ve all been waiting for–Food pictures from the trip! As much as I’d love to post all the pictures from the whole trip and talk about all...

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Racha Noodles

August 13, 2008

I’ve passed the sign for Racha about a gajillion times in my life. For some reason it didn’t seem right that it was a ‘real’ Thai restaurant. Having grown up loving Siam on Broadway and moved on to the late Thai Dusit (housed in a former KFC) and now coveting Vieng Thong, it seemed wrong to me that here in the middle of fancy pants Queen Anne, with a big pretty sign would be a ‘real’ Thai restaurant. I think part of the problem is that I don’t have a definition of ‘real’ in pertinance to Thai restaurants. I...

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ViengThong: Wow, its actually Thai…

January 3, 2008

“Wow, it’s actually Thai” was the recurring theme of our dinner last night. We headed out to ViengThong, on MLK Jr Way, just past the Loews. And by we, I include my brother, who spent three weeks at Muay Thai training camp in Thailand, and his friend who lived there for a time. These boys snottily laugh at the Thai food we eat here in Seattle, comparing it to the delicious stuff they got in their time living on the beach there. As I reminded my brother, I think he has told me about the sticky rice like fifty...

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Thai-ger Room

February 7, 2007

Holy hell, its been a while since I posted! Ski season (aka hibernation) has in fact set in. In the meantime I have moved into a new house and got a new car (courtesy of the lady in the giant SUV who slammed into me). So all is good now. Last night the man was craving a little bit of Thai, and, inexplicably to this girl who grew up frequenting Siam on Broadway, Thai-ger room is what he likes. To me, Thai food means a big table full of various dishes all passed around family style. At Thai-ger Room,...

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