Adventures in Thai Food

I'm not sure if any of you remember my post from 2011 in Vermont, where we went to a Thai place that was amazing but the food we ordered was so hot I thought maybe I would die in the middle of the meal.

I think that happened again last night.

So we had a drink at Apex - love that joint, let me tell you, and though it might be cliche for me to have had a Pliny and Blind Pig, and not to venture out into something different, it's not cliche.  It's me ordering beers on tap that I really really like that I can't get at home.  And they were good.

We met a prior co-worker from Target at Apex for a drink - he just started at Nike a week and a half ago.  SO FUN.  Learned a ton about Nike - sounds amazing and fun and wow awesome - and had a really great time.

We then decided that YES, we were going to eat at Pok Pok this time.  It's a Thai place and is regularly on best restaurant lists.  (Sidebar...oddly, our new dentist knows the owner - she and Chris talked about that a few weeks ago at his appointment.  Odd huh?)  I did take a 25 minute nap leaning on Chris while we sat outside and waited.  CLASSY.

Anyway, the menu is SUPER intimidating.  I mean, there are so many words on it, and I was a little more than anxious.  So we asked the waiter to just recommend things.  We NEVER do that.  But seriously, I might have accidentally ordered the "raw or undercooked food" disclaimer, the menu was so intense.

We started with the wings.  He said, "Regular or spicy?" and I said, "Spicy!"

They came, they were sticky and glossy and big and had sesame seeds on them.  And they were sweet.  And spicy.  Spicy in a way that is a slow weird burn until while you are eating them your nose is running and your heart starts racing, but you aren't sweating because frankly you think you might just be dying because your heart feels like it will soon explode.   And...

THEY WERE AWESOME!!!!!

But it was almost like I couldn't recover from them when my pork belly curry with coconut rice dish came.  Which was great too, except after a day of drinking copious amounts of beer, eating globs of pork belly fat with rice doesn't make for a good sleep.  Let's just say...well.  I won't say.  You get it.

Chris had a flank steak salad with sticky rice.  I didn't like that as much, but he said it was interesting.

So if you come here and eat at Pok Pok, get the wings.  Just don't expect to sleep well.