Nasty Food
Jun. 12th, 2005 04:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2I was driving around Saturday afternoon. I stopped at the mall, picked up some videos. I did some other shopping but didn't buy anything else. Then I went looking for food. I thought about stoppint at Toshi's but even though it's very good they basically do teriyaki. I wanted something a little more complex. I wanted something I couldn't get for lunch at work. ONly I couldn't figure out what that was.
I almost stopped at the Vietnamese restaurant on Aurora, but for some reason I didn't. I went to Safeway instead, but the food in their deli section made my stomach turn just looking at it. Then as I was driving back home I thought about the two teriyaki places near my house. One of them, Teriyaki Stop, is okay. I go there once in a while. The other, Sunny Teriyaki, is a place I never go to, but it happened to be on the same side of the street as me so I stopped there.
Now, I eat out at Sunny Teriyaki in Auburn once or twice a week. That store is very, very good. But the one near my house is not very good at all. I hadn't eaten there in years. I did go in there once in the last year, but I think I walked out again when I realized that their menu was nothing like the Sunny Teriyaki in Auburn.
But I stopped there today, and I was happy to see Phad Thai on their menu. Ah, that's the sort of thing I was looking for. Something I haven't had in while. I ordered that and two spring rolls, and the total came to $10.25.
Almost immediately I began to regret decision. I just didn't trust those people to make good food and the price was really steep... I could have gotten a very good meal at the Vietnamese restaurant for less than $10. And when I got the food, I had even bigger doubts. The smell just wasn't what I was expecting.
Well, let me say that this was the nastiest phad thai I have ever encountered. There were no peanuts, there was no peanut sauce that I could detect, there was just a bunch of phad thai noodles stir fried with carrots and cabbage (yes, cabbage) and teriyaki-style chicken pieces, and rice. I've never in my life seen phad thai served with rice, or with cabbage in it. And like you sometimes get at these places they'd dumped teriyaki sauce on the rice and let it dribble out and pool in the plastic bag beneath the styrofoam food carton... really nasty and messy.
I tried to eat it... I tool at least five bites... but it was unbelievably bad. Not edible at all. At least the spring rolls were edible, if not actually very tasty.
Tom pointed out that the Chinese restaurant on 105th around the corner had recently changed and was now a Chinese/Thai restaurant. I was desperate for some real phad thai now, so I headed down there and ordered some. I went ahead an ordered red curry chicken too, evne though I knew I probably couldn't eat half that much food. In fact, I just put the red curry straight into the fridge for tomorrow.
As for the phad thai from the "real" thai restaurant... erm. It was okay. It certainly wasn't as good as I was expecting, but that's what I get for going to another restaurant that I'm not familiar with. It was edible enough though, I managed to eat half of it and I save the rest. The other stuff from Sunny Teriyaki I just threw away.
I really had to laugh though when I noticed that the "real" thai restaurant had given me two nicely browned fortune cookies, while the single cookie from Sunny Teriyaki was much paler (not as tasty looking) and the printing on the wrapper wasn't "fortune cookie" it was simply "fookie".
I guess I got fookie'd, all right.
I almost stopped at the Vietnamese restaurant on Aurora, but for some reason I didn't. I went to Safeway instead, but the food in their deli section made my stomach turn just looking at it. Then as I was driving back home I thought about the two teriyaki places near my house. One of them, Teriyaki Stop, is okay. I go there once in a while. The other, Sunny Teriyaki, is a place I never go to, but it happened to be on the same side of the street as me so I stopped there.
Now, I eat out at Sunny Teriyaki in Auburn once or twice a week. That store is very, very good. But the one near my house is not very good at all. I hadn't eaten there in years. I did go in there once in the last year, but I think I walked out again when I realized that their menu was nothing like the Sunny Teriyaki in Auburn.
But I stopped there today, and I was happy to see Phad Thai on their menu. Ah, that's the sort of thing I was looking for. Something I haven't had in while. I ordered that and two spring rolls, and the total came to $10.25.
Almost immediately I began to regret decision. I just didn't trust those people to make good food and the price was really steep... I could have gotten a very good meal at the Vietnamese restaurant for less than $10. And when I got the food, I had even bigger doubts. The smell just wasn't what I was expecting.
Well, let me say that this was the nastiest phad thai I have ever encountered. There were no peanuts, there was no peanut sauce that I could detect, there was just a bunch of phad thai noodles stir fried with carrots and cabbage (yes, cabbage) and teriyaki-style chicken pieces, and rice. I've never in my life seen phad thai served with rice, or with cabbage in it. And like you sometimes get at these places they'd dumped teriyaki sauce on the rice and let it dribble out and pool in the plastic bag beneath the styrofoam food carton... really nasty and messy.
I tried to eat it... I tool at least five bites... but it was unbelievably bad. Not edible at all. At least the spring rolls were edible, if not actually very tasty.
Tom pointed out that the Chinese restaurant on 105th around the corner had recently changed and was now a Chinese/Thai restaurant. I was desperate for some real phad thai now, so I headed down there and ordered some. I went ahead an ordered red curry chicken too, evne though I knew I probably couldn't eat half that much food. In fact, I just put the red curry straight into the fridge for tomorrow.
As for the phad thai from the "real" thai restaurant... erm. It was okay. It certainly wasn't as good as I was expecting, but that's what I get for going to another restaurant that I'm not familiar with. It was edible enough though, I managed to eat half of it and I save the rest. The other stuff from Sunny Teriyaki I just threw away.
I really had to laugh though when I noticed that the "real" thai restaurant had given me two nicely browned fortune cookies, while the single cookie from Sunny Teriyaki was much paler (not as tasty looking) and the printing on the wrapper wasn't "fortune cookie" it was simply "fookie".
I guess I got fookie'd, all right.
