This weekend, Leo and I went to dinner at Thai Coast Restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue in the far West End. It was a much better experience than our first visit on April 13 last year. The dining room has been redecorated in light, airy pastels with a contemporary feel, the food was all excellent, and the service was very attentive and efficient. Leo thinks they must have had a change in management.
Leo started with a mai tai; it was orange instead of the red we were expecting. His first course was the tom yum, a lemongrass and seafood soup, he liked, though the sweet and sour was a little sweeter than he would have liked. His main course was called pad kee mao. He drank a bottle of Yuengling beer, a Vermont local brew, with his main course. We were intrigued by the English translation for pad kee mao: "drunken noodles." Since there was no alcohol listed in the ingredients on the menu, we asked the waitress what made them "drunken," and she explained to us the story of how a guy had been out having a good time and getting very drunk, and when he got home, he went into the kitchen to make something to eat, throwing in a little of everything and making it very hot and spicy. Thus was born "drunken noodles."
I had their fried calamari to start, washed down with a bottle of Singha Thai-style beer. The calamari was excellent, and they used such huge rings of squid that they looked almost like onion rings! Even with the larger size of the squid, it was still tender and delicious. My pad see-ew main course was a big plate of rice noodles with pork and broccoli.
It was a big dinner, even with just two courses, so we had to pass on dessert.
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