Perhaps we should reinvestigate a thread about
"best thing I ever ate," though I understand that
idea has been corrupted by the Food Network.

Or another old thread we could bring back: What I had for dinner
tonight.

Good idea, and self-renewing, whereas mine is not.

What I had was a single serving leftover from previous night's dinner of
a chicken curry, once made from portion of a BJs rotisserie chicken.
Gail had egg salad sandwich -- which she often does when there is only a single serving left over. Not exciting, but it tasted good for both.

Another possible conversation starter -what have
we eaten lately that was especially good or
especially nasty. For me, see below.

How about the rest of you -- what did you have?

So I had to go to this concert, because it had
the US premiere of a piece that my committee
commissioned (rather, we rubber-stamped the
choice of the then-president), but Bonnie and I
felt hunger pangs, so we went to King and I, an
old standby for Thaiish (the Website claims
authenticity), and as she likes crunchy things,
I asked the waitress for something crunchy,
maybe Thai rolls, the reply being "very good,
lots of vegetables." It was described on the
menu as being filled with ham, pork, and cabbage
- turned out, there was indeed minced ham along
the lines of canned ham, a little sauteed ground
pork, and a lot of raw shredded cabbage. A very
crispy outer wrapper and a kind of doughy inner
one.vNot good, not bad, just a little peculiar.

The waitress also brought some shrimp chips
"from the house." These were appropriately crunchy
and appropriately shrimpy. Bonnie was disappointed
because the green and pink ones tasted the same as
the white ones.

For mains we had tofu in Penang curry - fried
bean curd in a yellow curry sauce, severely
oversweetened and severely over-fish-sauced, the
vegetables a giant mound of undercooked green beans,
a handful or two of stir-fried eggplant (unevenly
cooked but on the whole decent), and one (1) little
square of red bell pepper. The tofu and eggplant were
actually pretty good, but the sauce was a travesty.

I got a special of pork belly with green beans (we
didn't know that green beans were going to dominate
the other dish). I guess few people order this, so we
got a good 12 oz of very fatty meat, including several
chunks of just plain fat, and an even larger pile of
beans not quite as underdone. The brownish sauce was
sweet but not as sweet, fishy saucy but not too much
so. I was in as much pig heaven as the meat donor.

I'd ordered the pork extra spicy. What came: the tofu
curry extra spicy, the pork medium. Not a big problem.

She had a glass of Merlot (when I had a sip, I thought
it one of the worst things ever to be put in a human
mouth under the guise of wine), and I had a Thai iced
tea, which is no longer on the menu - what came was
about half and half sweetened condensed milk, whereas
the real stuff is maybe 80% tea and a splash or three
of the dairy stuff. I merely thought it an annoyance
and drank it off the top, where the ice cubes melted
enough to dilute the drink to a palatable level, and
then when the ice was gone, got more. Bonnie thought
as poorly of this beverage as I thought of hers.
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