1 September 2007

Last night the Sripraphai Database (SDb) was born. We stared at the menu and couldn't believe how much of it we hadn't eaten. Or if we had, we sure as hell didn't remember -- it has been, oh, eight years of dining or so.

So I'm working off this menu, which is not quite current, and I'm not sure whether the numbers of the dishes are the same. I'll update if necessary when I get a current menu.

What we ate:

A-1--Papaya salad. Even in the interest of dining diversity, I will never forgo this dish. Those weeny dried shrimp and the crisp beans, and the dressing that's somehow hot without any visible spice cues... Perfect.

A-23--BBQ Beef with chili, mint and lemon juice. Another exempt dish--this will get ordered probably every meal (now that I can finally remember which one it is--the descriptions for all the salads are sort of confusing). Long live meat salad. Mint is just one secret that I have to remind myself of when I make this at home.

A-26--Fried fish cake. We ordered this after seeing similar delivered to a table nearby. Oh, but duh--we've had the fish cakes before, and they didn't look like those other table's--those were breaded. We think they might've been shrimp cakes (A-27) in retrospect. Next time.

C-TK--Northern-style curry with noodles. Off the specials menu, so I don't know the number. It's like the Thai version of Greek makaroneh, or any other pasta-with-meat-sauce, but with some stringy, thready things we couldn't identify and some other tastier bits. Not spicy. I just ate some of the leftovers now, and ended up with a mouthful of some weird animal parts, little pellets of chewiness. This sounds like a bad thing, but it's not. I'm sure those added to the flavor.

C-21--Roasted duck in hot and spicy sauce with thai eggplant, bamboo shots. Delish. Hot. We were pretty full by then. Basil in it too. Eggplants are good and crunchy.

We wanted to order C-14--pan-fried mussels with bean sprouts (which is under 'rice dishes' but doesn't come with rice)--but they were out.