Wednesday, July 7, 2010
please stop
every time i post something here i get one, and sometimes multiple, comments in japanese or chinese trying to advertise their websites of young asian women in their under ware. i have nothing against these websites or their content, but i always block your comments and i really don't think that anyone reading my usually about food blog is looking for information about your websites (not that they aren't in to the content but they know where to more appropriately look for that content). i doubt you are actually reading the posts you comment on, but if you are can you please stop posting comments on my blog? i will never publish your comments so you are really wasting both your time and mine. please please please stop.
go over the bridge right now
seth already told you how good it is. i dropped their name in a post about a totally different restaurant. but have you gone yet? i know you have some weird aversion to driving over the bridge into south portland but i'm telling you that pho hanoi will not disappoint.
if you like vietnamese you have try this place out. i am very fond of than than 2 and i enjoy the pho immensely at siagon, but i don't know that i need to go back to either because pho hanoi is SO GOOD.
so i am begging you, for the very selfish reasos that i don't want to see this little gem go out of business, go to pho hanoi!!!!
other people like it too:
yelp
chow hound
urban spoon
if you like vietnamese you have try this place out. i am very fond of than than 2 and i enjoy the pho immensely at siagon, but i don't know that i need to go back to either because pho hanoi is SO GOOD.
so i am begging you, for the very selfish reasos that i don't want to see this little gem go out of business, go to pho hanoi!!!!
other people like it too:
yelp
chow hound
urban spoon
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
saneg thai house
so for round 9, it was off to saneg thai house. they have two locations, strangely close to one another. the original is on congress street, in the shadow of maine medical and the other is literally around the corner on st. john street.
seth and i had been urged some time ago to try this place out by our friends, mark and kate. they had warned us that it could be hit or miss but we decided to try it out anyway. this was way back before i was an expert on the thai restaurant scene in portland and in general we were very pleased. the food was good and the service was ... um, entertaining.
the old thai woman working the front of the house, who ends up to be the sister of the owner, seemed to not have the stamina to walk all the way over to our table so took our order from across the room. at some point she warmed up quite a bit and decided to tell us in great detail about her mammogram and pap smear. now this is something i'm pretty used to because once you tell people that you are a nurse practitioner they want to tell you all about their health. but i didn't tell her i was a nurse practitioner. it was also quite interesting to watch the numerous people coming in for take out, almost all ordering pad thai, and asking for no radishes. they were repeatedly told, there are no radishes in the pad thai, but in fact the menu does say their are radishes in the pad thai.
but that was last time. this time i also felt the food was good, though pretty standard. at this point i have surrendered myself to average thai food. the service was also not nearly as entertaining this time around.
for appetizers we got the basic pu pu platter, which was -- you guessed it -- standard, but still tastey with its fried chicken wing, and chicken satay and crispy cups of some sort of ground meat and lots of sweet dipping sauces.
for entrees we got pad thai (no radishes please) and a duck red curry. i was pretty pleased with the pad thai. it was peanuty and light and citrusy (lack of citrus can be a big complaint of my fellow bloggers). there was plenty of chicken and i think a few shrimp and it really satisfied that rare craving i get for pad thai.
the duck curry was also very good. it was a rather mild creamy red curry with lots of big chunks of crispy, fatty duck. there were so many vegetables they were practically spilling out of the bowl. i especially liked the cherry tomatoes and the grapes, which when hot sort of burst open in your mouth (yeah i know, "that's what she said"). i don't imagine that grapes are especially authentic in thai cuisine, but i really did enjoy them.
in relation to all the standard thai in this town, i think its up towards top of the list. but as my friend mark said, we may just be hitting it on the right night. its also quite a deal with the pad thai costing like $6 or $7. so at this price point and the two good meals we have had so far, i would visit saneg thai house again.
seth and i had been urged some time ago to try this place out by our friends, mark and kate. they had warned us that it could be hit or miss but we decided to try it out anyway. this was way back before i was an expert on the thai restaurant scene in portland and in general we were very pleased. the food was good and the service was ... um, entertaining.
the old thai woman working the front of the house, who ends up to be the sister of the owner, seemed to not have the stamina to walk all the way over to our table so took our order from across the room. at some point she warmed up quite a bit and decided to tell us in great detail about her mammogram and pap smear. now this is something i'm pretty used to because once you tell people that you are a nurse practitioner they want to tell you all about their health. but i didn't tell her i was a nurse practitioner. it was also quite interesting to watch the numerous people coming in for take out, almost all ordering pad thai, and asking for no radishes. they were repeatedly told, there are no radishes in the pad thai, but in fact the menu does say their are radishes in the pad thai.
but that was last time. this time i also felt the food was good, though pretty standard. at this point i have surrendered myself to average thai food. the service was also not nearly as entertaining this time around.
for appetizers we got the basic pu pu platter, which was -- you guessed it -- standard, but still tastey with its fried chicken wing, and chicken satay and crispy cups of some sort of ground meat and lots of sweet dipping sauces.
for entrees we got pad thai (no radishes please) and a duck red curry. i was pretty pleased with the pad thai. it was peanuty and light and citrusy (lack of citrus can be a big complaint of my fellow bloggers). there was plenty of chicken and i think a few shrimp and it really satisfied that rare craving i get for pad thai.
the duck curry was also very good. it was a rather mild creamy red curry with lots of big chunks of crispy, fatty duck. there were so many vegetables they were practically spilling out of the bowl. i especially liked the cherry tomatoes and the grapes, which when hot sort of burst open in your mouth (yeah i know, "that's what she said"). i don't imagine that grapes are especially authentic in thai cuisine, but i really did enjoy them.
in relation to all the standard thai in this town, i think its up towards top of the list. but as my friend mark said, we may just be hitting it on the right night. its also quite a deal with the pad thai costing like $6 or $7. so at this price point and the two good meals we have had so far, i would visit saneg thai house again.
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