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| - What I know about Thai food could scare the bejeebers out of my Midwestern Grandmother, but no one in this town would be fooled for even a moment.
Walking into the Thai Style Noodle House, I knew I was about to sacrifice one of my favorite things about the "new dining experience". That is, I love asking the server to make recommendations, you can learn a lot about a place from this simple question. But I know from experience that Chinatown servers are not into recommendations, at least not to a 'pale-white farm boy', other than boring, ordinary, tasteless, "American Style" dishes that are sure not to offend any taste buds. Of course, I always have Yelp to guide me to something on the menu that is likely to please.
As I expected, when I ordered the Noodle House Tom Yum Noodle Soup (fat noodles with a 7 on the spice range), I got a series of questions from the server, all apparently designed to discourage me from my order: "It's sour." she says. "Sure you want soup?" she asks, "That's very hot." came her final plea, with a combined look of confusion and compassion (the later to be served after diner).
The fat noodles were a perfect compliment to the hot and sour soup and a 7 on the spice level sat just perfect with me. A great big thank you to the Yelpers out there, who provided the ammunition I needed to complete my order without the assistance (or even approval) of the server. Don't get me wrong, she did a splendid job and was very attentive to my water glass (Misty and I are simpatico on this matter), she just looked frightened that I would have a coronary and she'd have to cover my tab out of her tips.
There is a sister restaurant out in my neck of the woods that I will be making regular visits to as I learn more about this Thai food craze everyone's going on about - :).
I figure I got a good ten years left before I have fully traversed the culinary landscape that is Chinatown alone, so many wonderful new flavors for the tongue. The Noodle House is definitely going to become one of my new standards, even if they never stop looking terrified of my menu selctions.
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