What's for Dinner #112 - the "Pre-Holiday Crazies" Edition - November 2024

City Sunday that involved a lot of shleppin’ around on a brilliantly cloudless day. Grabbed a loaf of that fab homadama at the market, got a banh mi & pork summer rolls for lunch on the sunny patio on 9th Street, and had one final (?!) frozen banana sundae with walnuts, pistachios, coconut flakes, toffee sauce & chocolate sauce :yum:

We nixed our OG plans to hit up a Thai place in Chinatown bc we felt lazy after all that walking around & ordered delivery instead: tom yum goong, moo ping, moo tod nam phra, and som tam — Thai spicy where applicable. Most of the food that was meant to be eaten hot showed up room temp / cool, so we reheated the soup on the stove top & threw tha meatz in the air-fryer.

The tom yum had a decent kick, though the shrimp were overcooked, the moo ping was 3 skewers of uninteresting ground pork (we def prefer the pork shoulder version), the moo tod nam phra was also not very impressive, i.e. small pieces of over-fried pork belly and just not very flavorful — but I’ll admit our favorite place in Berlin sets a pretty high bar. The som tam was DEF Thai spicy.

I’d chopped up some bird chilies “just in case” and added a few to the dipping sauce for the pork belly. That certainly did the trick, and our mouths are still on fire, but it was all just ok.

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