Thai Kitchen, Washington, D.C.

Dinner tonight at Thai Kitchen in the West End. It was a pleasant walk with our warm spring weather.

Against my advice, Leo had a Guinness stout beer that he immediately regretted upon tasting; I had a Yeungling beer that was decent enough as far as beer goes. Then we split an Thai Kitchen sampler with chicken satay in peanut sauce, shrimp rolls, and deep fried vegetarian spring rolls.



For our main courses, Leo had the paeng paa, a spicy "jungle curry" with beef and vegetables. It looked pretty, but I didn't get the impression he was all that excited about it.



I asked our waiter—who looked exactly like an Asian —to pick and bring me dinner. He selected the crisp whole flounder, a delicious dish where the whole fish was deep fried and presented on a large platter accompanied by a bowl of spicy chili and garlic sauce and a little bowl of white rice. I thought my fish was really good.



We weren't going to do dessert, but Leo decided to order two or three entrees as take-away food, so we had time to kill and ended up ordering more food. Leo had mango sticky rice that was rather routine but very beautifully presented; I had coconut ice cream that was rather routinely presented but tasted great.