Dinner at breakneck speed!

I'm going to write an extremely rushed and succinct review of Suriya Thai in the Mission. This is only fair considering that this is probably the quickest dinner I have ever ordered and eaten.

We got there on a Saturday night after Lit Crawl, 10 minutes before closing. We knew that we would have to decide our orders quickly - but we had no idea how quickly. The server was literally around our necks forcing us to order quickly. With so much pressure, of course we ended up ordering too much, and definitely waaay to much tofu. No sonner had we ordered our food, that it started appearing at such a fast pace, I'm sure these guys set the record for the fastest service ever! In the next 5 minutes every single dish we had ordered was on the table, and the kitchen was closed! If this was a relationship, it would be one of those definitely headed towards disaster for moving too fast!

The rest of dinner was a blur - the pace had been set, and we ate dinner at breakneck speed too, in case they made us leave the restuarant in the next 5 minutes because they wanted to close up. Anyway, half an hour later, and with the feeling of being spun around too fast we left Suriya Thai - a little dizzy, and convinced that some places are just better for take-out.

Apologies

to all you avid readers of my blog :) I've been a little lazy blogging. Actually, in my defense... I haven't really been to too many restaurants over the past few weeks that made me want to blog about them.

I think one place of note is Salang Pass, in Fremont of all places. It's an Afghani place that a co-worker recommended. We went there for a group lunch, and after an initial awkward few minutes wondering if everyone would be cool sitting on cushions on the ground and eating with their hands, it was a fun experience. The food was really good... and surprisingly had a lot of vegetarian options. For appetizers we had the Bolani - which is just this giant alu paratha, very flavorful and quite yummy! That almost filled me up, with the salad and the bread at the table we could have easily skipped to dessert, but everyone ordered entrees so I did too. And I'm glad... yummm... the Veg Sabzi Challow... you can't go wrong giving a south indian hot basmati rice. A lot of the dessert options at this place looked really Indian - they had a Ras Malai, and phirni and mango ice cream. I think we ordered every dessert on there, and the only one that really appealed to me was the phirni. It was cool, and light, and had this awesome rose fragrance that transported you to some nawab's palace somewhere in some other time.

Where else did I go this past 2 weeks? I wonder if take-out counts... oh well, might as well. I guess if I had to list my most frequented take-out place it would be Regent Thai on 29th & Church. And for good reason - it's cheap, the food is excellent, and it's 5 minutes from my place. I wish they would deliver! I'm thinking I'll write an entire blog entry dedicated to my favorite take-out places. Watch this spot...