W went snowboarding with his friend today. i decided to stay home, cuz i don't want to risk re-injuring my tailbone, which does not feel fully healed quite yet. :( the worst part of all this? it's finally snowing, so i'm sure there's lots of nice powder! oh well...season's not over yet!
last week we got a flyer in the mail for a new thai place near us, and we were very anxious to try it! we had seen other thai basil restaurants around, and reviews on it were good, so we were excited! after watching v for vendetta (which was pretty good, but totally not what i was expecting, especially from the wachowski brothers), we drove around the mall in search of thai basil. luckily we found it pretty quick. waited about 20 minutes for a table (it was packed! but later we saw that they didn't open the upstairs and the downstairs isn't all that big...creating the illusion of being busy perhaps?). i think this was their first weekend. they seemed really understaffed, and we sat for a good 15-20 minutes before anyone gave us water or asked for our drink order. eh, whatever, it's thai, i wasn't expecting 5 star service. :P we ordered the tom yum goong soup, spicy garlic shrimp, sriracha beef and chicken green curry (haha, we weren't exactly starving, we just wanted lots of leftovers!!). the soup was really good. everything else was, well, really sweet! it wasn't the authentic thai food we were hoping for. everything was super saucy, more like chinese, and aside from the curry, the dishes didn't have that distinct thai flavor...you know, the lemongrass, basil flavors (even tho it's in the name). and their spicy dishes had no thai chilies in sight. but overall, it wasn't bad, and i'd definitely go again. we were both just disappointed that it wasn't REAL thai food. but then again, the servers were wearing t-shirts that said "thai basil asian fusion" so i guess that should've given us a big hint, right?? (altho i wouldn't quite call what they served us asian fusion.)
the thing that really confuses me about the asian restaurants here is that they don't just have thai food at the thai restaurants. most places are a mix of thai/vietnamese/sushi or chinese/sushi or vietnamese/chinese/sushi. it's kinda nice in case you want your pho with a side of wontons and spicy tuna roll. but i think it really jacks up all the ppl out here who don't know any better for lack of exposure. so they go to a place like SF and eat at a chinese restaurant wondering where the sushi menu is. it's no wonder so many ppl don't know the difference between the asian cultures and cuisines...it's not like the asian restaurant owners here are helping the matter either. it's actually kind of annoying.
anyways i have 2 fun sights for your viewing pleasure:
stuff on my cat - funny/strange pictures of stuff on ppl's cats. haha, i like the cat eating food out of the bowl on his belly.
helmet cam - something W's friend and brother (and W for a brief moment at one point) started. it's really cool, they do extreme sports videography via a little lipstick camera mounted onto a helmet (or whatever) scroll thru the videos, it's kinda neat (of course the skiing/boarding ones are my fave!). they even won an award for this video of C's dog chasing him (or his brother, can't really tell) down the mountain! that is one fast dog! and this one's cool, they make it look so easy!!
well, hope everyone had a fun-filled weekend!! i'm very much looking forward to this week ahead...
last week we got a flyer in the mail for a new thai place near us, and we were very anxious to try it! we had seen other thai basil restaurants around, and reviews on it were good, so we were excited! after watching v for vendetta (which was pretty good, but totally not what i was expecting, especially from the wachowski brothers), we drove around the mall in search of thai basil. luckily we found it pretty quick. waited about 20 minutes for a table (it was packed! but later we saw that they didn't open the upstairs and the downstairs isn't all that big...creating the illusion of being busy perhaps?). i think this was their first weekend. they seemed really understaffed, and we sat for a good 15-20 minutes before anyone gave us water or asked for our drink order. eh, whatever, it's thai, i wasn't expecting 5 star service. :P we ordered the tom yum goong soup, spicy garlic shrimp, sriracha beef and chicken green curry (haha, we weren't exactly starving, we just wanted lots of leftovers!!). the soup was really good. everything else was, well, really sweet! it wasn't the authentic thai food we were hoping for. everything was super saucy, more like chinese, and aside from the curry, the dishes didn't have that distinct thai flavor...you know, the lemongrass, basil flavors (even tho it's in the name). and their spicy dishes had no thai chilies in sight. but overall, it wasn't bad, and i'd definitely go again. we were both just disappointed that it wasn't REAL thai food. but then again, the servers were wearing t-shirts that said "thai basil asian fusion" so i guess that should've given us a big hint, right?? (altho i wouldn't quite call what they served us asian fusion.)
the thing that really confuses me about the asian restaurants here is that they don't just have thai food at the thai restaurants. most places are a mix of thai/vietnamese/sushi or chinese/sushi or vietnamese/chinese/sushi. it's kinda nice in case you want your pho with a side of wontons and spicy tuna roll. but i think it really jacks up all the ppl out here who don't know any better for lack of exposure. so they go to a place like SF and eat at a chinese restaurant wondering where the sushi menu is. it's no wonder so many ppl don't know the difference between the asian cultures and cuisines...it's not like the asian restaurant owners here are helping the matter either. it's actually kind of annoying.
anyways i have 2 fun sights for your viewing pleasure:
stuff on my cat - funny/strange pictures of stuff on ppl's cats. haha, i like the cat eating food out of the bowl on his belly.
helmet cam - something W's friend and brother (and W for a brief moment at one point) started. it's really cool, they do extreme sports videography via a little lipstick camera mounted onto a helmet (or whatever) scroll thru the videos, it's kinda neat (of course the skiing/boarding ones are my fave!). they even won an award for this video of C's dog chasing him (or his brother, can't really tell) down the mountain! that is one fast dog! and this one's cool, they make it look so easy!!
well, hope everyone had a fun-filled weekend!! i'm very much looking forward to this week ahead...
posted by joyce at
7:23 AM
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