Browsing Tag

eats

    DAEGU FOOD

    Daegu Eats | Thai Food at Ruen Thai

    daegu | thai food at ruen thai

    tofu pad thai

    daegu | thai food at ruen thai

    I don’t think we ordered enough

    daegu | thai food at ruen thai

    I don’t know how many times we have driven by Ruen Thai, located beside nearby Suseong Lake, recently. “Thai and Vietnamese Food?” We would exclaim, “I wonder if it’s any good.” Every single time. We finally decided to stop wondering and give it a try.

    The best Thai food I have ever eaten was from a food cart temporarily stationed in a convenience store parking lot off the side of a dusty road in Thailand. The lady-vendor made one thing and one thing only: papaya salad. For less than a dollar we ordered some freshly made salad, packed for us to go in a plastic sandwich bag, and hurried back to our car where we greedily ate every last morsel. I cannot even begin to describe how delicious, how fresh, how subtly complex, and how flavorful that plastic bag of salad tasted.

    In general I feel like the best Asian food originates from a food stand, a night market, or hunched over a low table while squatting on a plastic red stool. Ruen Thai is anything but. From the outside, the restaurant looked a bit fancy and modern, the antithesis of what I expected a legit Thai restaurant to look like. Or at least an authentic Thai restaurant.

    Continue Reading

  • DAEGU FOOD KOREA

    A Wintery Afternoon in Daegu

    Our first weekend in Daegu, stir crazy and itching to explore, we rambled along the streets of near our hotel, eventually finding ourselves at an outdoor market. On one side of…

  • DC FOOD

    ANNIVERSARY DINNER | Rose’s Luxury

    For this year's anniversary dinner we went Rose's Luxury, which was rated "No. 1 Best New Restaurant in America 2014" by Bon Appetit. In other words it was totally "Brunch…

  • HOME TEXAS

    SNAPSHOTS OF | Houston

    Our days more or less followed the same routine: we woke up at 7am, drove to Starbucks (drive though!) for coffee, came home, ate a gourmet breakfast, sat around the table…