Ginger Food Blog
We’ve a new Thai restaurant in town, a Thai family owns this one, so you can expect the real McCoy, and It’s a bit pricey, so you definitely pay for the authenticity of the food. The lunch menu is not so bad, but comparing to Japanese or Chinese food, it’s somewhat expensive. The name of the restaurant is catchy and easy to remember, I-Thai Cuisine.
I tried their Garlic Shrimp, its stir-fried large succulent shrimp with fresh garlic and pepper, served on bed of lettuce, and then topped with chopped cilantro and scallion. It’s good, but not for Darly since she is allergic to garlic.
Then Pad Thai, the most famous Thai noodle dish, stir-fried with large shrimps, chicken, tofu, egg, bean sprout, scallions and crushed peanut. This one was delicious.
Then I saw Ginger on the menu, number 18, this made me think of Darly’s post at Saolao.net, Number 6 and Fried Rice. Ginger is a lunch special, with bell pepper, onion, mushroom, and scallion; I definitely have to try this one the next time I’m there for lunch.
…..thanks Darly, safe topic indeed. 
Yeah, can’t go wrong with food.
The price is not bad at all considering I pay $8-$9 for the same thing here in Dallas. I went to a Thai Bistro here and order a real papaya salad…..$8. It is crazy. Here I thought $5 at Lao party was expensive. Oh, the portion is a lot smaller too. Matter fact all of the portions were small. I don’t get it. It is like this in every Thai restaurant I went to. I went to another restaurant name Thai Samba and ordered Nua Nam Toke. They didn’t use roasted rice. They just crushed the regular white rice and mixed it up. Chopped cucumber in Nua Nam Toke was dried as if it was cut last week. I am not going back there again.
I was a cook at an upscale Chinese restaurant back in IL ( I made the best Mongolian Beef…customer told me that)……I would never serve my customer old or dried up vegies/herbs. The Padthai look a little over cook. I can tell by the onion and the soggy noodle.
Hi Ginger, I was just teasing you about food blog you know. But it’s nice to see the food posting from you. Hopefully it’s not the only topic you will stick you. I’m going to post about magazines from Laos later today and then about the popular singers from Laos.
I guess you can join me then after I get more hate fan mails, LOL.
Hi DL,
Is it the problem of not expecting more and demanding more? Maybe the Americans are just happy and think they got the good deal and not demanding better service and better quality in food.
I think it’s like that with Thai restaurants, most owned by Lao people by the way and if not then they have all Lao staff. They tend to over-charged and give you less and not so good food. There is this one Thai restaurant that all my teachers love to go to and I went there a few times and didn’t care for it. The food is either too salty or too something and you can eat better food at a fancy steak house for the same price.
Demand more people!
Hi DL, I did a to go order, and I think it overcooked on the way home in my car. I think you’ve an act for being a food critic, that would be something interesting to blog about, but that’s also becoming a pisser but I think you’re a pro at this, I just have a feeling; one thing, don’t do your first post on Darly’s food.
Hi Darly, I was posting this before I saw your comment; sometimes it freaks me that we think too much alike. This wouldn’t be my normal topic, my mind scatter most of the times, sometimes I don’t even know what I’d post about. One good thing, most people like food, so…not much complaint here.
I think it’s important that the name of the restaurant is easy to remember, like this one, I-Thai Cuisine (they’ve in several locations), might not make a whole lot of sense, but it’s easy to remember. We’ve a Thai restaurant that has a strange name, even I can’t pronounce, I don’t know the meaning of it either, and when I asked the owner, who is Lao, she said that it’s one of the Buddhist goddess. I guess it’s okay but if people can’t pronounce the name, how can they tell their friends as to where to meet for lunch, some just shy away from it mainly because it doesn’t indicate on the name that it’s a Thai restaurant. I think it’s a shame because the atmosphere and decoration are very Thai and the food is not bad, not totally Thai, sort of half way there. The service is not that bad either, but it could be better.
Hi Ginger,
Nice to see you sharing your food blog. I don’t eat at Thai or Lao restaurants very often. There is one Thai restaurant that is popular here (among non-Asians) . But I didn’t like it, it was not very authentic at all.
When I do go out, I prefer Italian or Mexican food. It’s probably because I just go to mama’s house for good old fashion home cooking. And there is really no substitute for that!
Hi Salat, I seldom eat out, but this restaurant is not bad, I like the Thai Restaurant in Chinatown, NY best, it’s more authentic and cooks to accommodate your taste bud, I like my food a little spicy. I do miss my mom cooking.