Siam

Way back last week I ate at Siam but I couldn't review it because of blogger. Siam is the place on J and 37th where the KFC used to be. KW reviewed it awhile ago. On her recommendation we started with the miang kum. This is a deconstructed salad that you assemble. I have had a similar version at Pattaya, and Siam's had a clumsier execution, but was tasty nonetheless and I would order it again. You take a spinach leaf, load it up (as much as you can load up a spinach leaf, Pattaya uses a sturdier green) with dried shrimp (which smells exactly like ass, yum) chunks of ginger, onion, and peanut (all of which were should have been cut into smaller pieces), toasted coconut, some kind of tangy sauce and then try to shovel it in quick before it all drops. I'm not making it sound appetizing but it is! And fun to eat! Like ass! Sorry I'm gross. Then we got the thai basil (or chili basil, I can't remember what the dish was called) with chicken. This was fucking great and greasy as hell. I swear that it was pork or they somehow got the chicken to seem exactly like ground pork. Jews and Muslims, beware. The other thing we got was a noodle dish with crab. The flavor on this was just OK, way too sweet for my taste. It was an enjoyable dinner but there are so many Thai restaurants in downtown Sac that it's hard to find a reason to visit this one over any other. If you're sick of Amarin, Chada and Taste of Thai, or if you are hanging out at the Christian Science room trying to pick up chicks and get hungry, then go to Siam.

Now lets talk about the problem with Andy Nyugens. I have heard some horror stories lately about the service and have experienced a few of my own. Why oh why can't they get it together? AND I heard that they stopped serving beer now. That sucks. That said, I ate there last week and got the cold noodle salad with fake meat and dried spring rolls and it was scrump. So I keep going back despite the hassle. From now on I'll just sneak in my own flask.

I also ate at Jarritos for the first time in like six months and I love how it is always the same and always the bomb and that my dinner always costs four dollars. I can't eat there that often because it isn't on my diet plan but I will always have a soft spot for it.

I still need to write about my amazing dinner at Masons last week. Like you care! If you're reading as I'm posting you're probably hungry so maybe you do.