Someone wrote: : There was pre-Christmas/Holidy discussion as to what might be open. Let's : now here what _was_ open. That Thai noodle joint up on Broadway (near Charlie's) was doing a land office business. They were the only Thai place open anywhere we could find. Unfortunately, their food was so uniformly mediocre we would have been better off in Chinatown. I had a plate of Swimming Rama, chicken with spinach and peanut sauce. The spinach was completely tasteless, the chicken was bland to say the least, and the peanut sauce was slathered and glopped on top of everything like that horrible "gravy" the gave you with high school meatloaf. By contrast, the seafood soup was spiked with so much lemon you could hardly taste anything else. And there were slices of what appeared to be leeks in it; the stuff was so woody it was mpossible to chew. My girlfriend had some kind of veggie thing, which actually had a fairly good sauce over it. But her comment kind of summed up the dish: "I like the peas." Mind you, these were not snow pea pods; they were --I dunno-- frozen peas? Y'know, the people running the place were very busy and very nice. But hey, come on...get somebody in the kitchen with a little moxie and some taste buds. P.S. The Coins was open, alright, but the wait was 2.5 hours! ============================================================================= Jef Jaisun [email removed] =============================================================================
Seattle, WA