SeaThai

[libertango]

Someone in seattle asked for Thai recommendations, and this is what I wrote:

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I really like SeaThai, at 2313 N 45th in Wallingford.

Now, mind you, that's mostly because I fell in love with a particular dish I've only ever seen there:

"S9 Ho Mok Talay $14.99
Steamed curried sea food in a young coconut shell. Snapper, scallops, prawns, squid, and muscles, with basil, bamboo shoots, Bai Cha Plu leaves, in a coconut milk, egg, and red curry sauce. Steamed in a young coconut shell. Very Thai and very good."

Basically, they skin a coconut, make a lid in the top, pile in the stew to the interior, and then cook. The seafood and the coconut mix all together, and you get coconut-flavored seafood, and seafood-flavored coconut meat you can spoon from the insides.

Yum.

(And if anyone knows a different place that serves Ho Mok Talay I'd love to hear about it -- just to get a "second opinion," as it were.)

Comments

Homonym problems

[quirky-teal.livejournal.com]

Probably they add mussels rather than muscles. English spelling can be soooo confusing to non-native speakers.

Re: Homonym problems

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

I figured as much. It's almost as much fun as the time an employer's database had someone put in "Ciadel" for "Seattle" (I'm pretty sure it was an outsourcer in India).

Anyway... Hope you had a good Thanksgiving. Sorry I didn't call -- I'm at work all this week, so I got home, got to bed, woke up 3 hours earlier than usual to get to Thanksgiving with our friends, came straight home from that, went back to work. We also have a houseguest.

I'll try to call soon, but the mix of wacky schedule on my end and the time zones on your end makes it tough to synch up.