koko wrote:
> Should I have known better than to order a Thai dish in a Chinese
> restaurant! I did it anyway and am I sorry.
>
> I've never had Pad Thai before, and I couldn't resist it.
> The ingredients in the recipes I've read have the things I really
> like, so how could I not like the completed dish.
>
> My first observation was that is was non-de script except for the
> level of spice. It was spicy enough without being overdone.
> The flavors under the spicy-ness were muddied, that's the only word I
> can think of.
> Nothing seemed to be blended well and I couldn't even distinguish any
> of the ingredients. And there definitely, positively, absolutely was
> not one iota of peanut in that dish, they didn't even wave a peanut
> over it.
>
> I'm going to try it other places and make it myself before I give up
> and decide I just don't like Pad Thai.
>


I suggest you try again. Most pad thai I've had was quite tasty, but I
agree that a Chinese restaurant probably isn't the best example of Thai
food.

gloria p