The Bipolar Otaku

Didn't go out drinking tonight... Pretty much everyone went home this weekend, so no one is around. One of the plant engineers told me about a thai place that he thought might be good, so I went there for dinner... The place is called Pad Thai (what an unoriginal name for a thai restaurant!). The place looked nice, trying to build up a classy-type atmosphere (but totally lost with all the casually dressed clientelle, like me). The food was good overall. Their Tom Yum soup had a really good vinegary/bitter taste to it, but they spoiled it by trying to overpower it with saltiness. But it was really hot also, but it was difficult to decide if the spiciness made up for the saltiness. But the mushrooms were tender, the chicken was perfectly cooked (though slightly too large chunks, in my opinion), and overall, the soup was quite good. The Masaman chicken I ordered was good also, though I forgot to order it hot (and they didn't have the courtesy of asking me how spicy I wanted it anyway), so the curry spice was quite bland after the soup. However the chicken was tender, the potatoes sliced easily (too bad the carrots didn't), and it did have a slightly sweet flavor which I was hoping for. I actually had it in my head earlier today that I would like to go to the grocery store and buy all the ingredients to make a sweet potato curry (ref. Figure 17) and I didn't even realize I was ordering potato curry until after I got it. Anyway, the sweet taste in the curry may have been from the coconut milk, but I thought it was from something else that I couldn't quite recognize...

Did I ever mention one of my many ambitions is to be a food critic? Other ambitions (that I can remember): a sommelier, a chef, a photographer, a journalist, a patent lawyer, a psychiatrist, a college professor, a high school teacher, a weapons designer, and a lazy (and filthy rich) bum.