Whenever I have Thai food, I am reminded of a desperate act of deception from my junior year of high school (I hope my Advanced World Cultures teacher isn’t reading this!)  Our assignment was to create a menu reflecting the cuisine of a selected country or region and to cook one of the items to bring in to share with the class.  Well, this was before I had taught myself to cook and having waited until the last minute, as usual, I found myself in a bit of a pickle.  Luckily, the Thai Garden solved my dilemma.  A quick telephone call later I had several to-go orders of their signature dessert: mango and sticky rice.  I transferred it into a Tupperware, solidifying the homemade appeal,  and shared it with my classmates who had slaved over baklava and homemade naan.   I’m pretty sure that by this point I have cooked enough ethnic cuisine that I don’t deserve to have my high school diploma revoked, but I’ll never forget my little ploy.

Well, I recently enjoyed an abundance of delicious Thai cuisine with a fabulous group of lady friends at the no longer so secret hole-in-the-wall known as Thai X-ing.  Seating is limited, although they have expanded to a larger upstairs area where we were very comfortable on window-side couches.  Reservations are somewhat hard to come by, not only because seating is limited, but also because you often must leave a message and wait for a call back.  It’s BYOB, which makes the already affordable restaurant ($30 pp for eight dishes) an even better deal.  Go hungry, wear loose pants, expect to eat fast (service is a bit rushed) and plan to have lunch for a couple of days!  I’m pretty sure that I couldn’t present most of their dishes as my own, although the meal did end with mango and sticky rice should you ever find yourself needing to fake it!

Spicy coconut and curry soup

Papaya salad in a spicy peanut sauce

Rich pumpkin curry

Salmon Curry

In case you ever find yourself in a pickle!

Lovely ladies excited about some Thai food!

By round three, I was too full to bend over to take photos.  We also enjoyed a lovely tofu curry, delightful mixed vegetables and a tofu noodle dish that I was fine being too full to eat much of.