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thrifty epicure the blog of eating drinking and living cheap in the district thrifty epicure the blog of eating drinking and living cheap in the district skip to content home about us older posts kanlaya reax posted on september 17 2008 by thriftyepicure leave a comment as promised below is the rundown of my dining experience at kanlaya last night in both both the technical and taste categories i would say there were some significant hitches first of all i posted three or four notes to the twitter feed of my work blog scotusblog considering that site works primarily in supreme court reporting maybe descriptions of the beer service at local thai restaurants is not exactly germane oh well on the taste front i guess there was nothing particularly wrong with kanlaya often i judge restaurants like this by their vegetarian menus it isn t that hard to pump out chicken pad thai or pad see yew or any number of other meat dishes of course really good meat entrees aren t that easy but is the vegetarian food anything more than sad bits of fried tofu with veggies and sauce kanlaya has a large veggie menu which means maybe i just picked the wrong thing my pad prik was tasty but the beans which were advertised as fresh string beans looked like the frozen cut beans you can get at giant and the sauce was watery and not particularly spicy for its rating of two peppers on the menu the highest they gave evidently this is a problem that others have had some like it hot and diners who do had better make that point clear to the staff this is a kitchen that pulls its punches if you aren t insistent shaved beef with bamboo shoots in a supposedly spicy red curry didn t sound a single fire alarm everyone else seemed to enjoy their food however even a friend who had chicken satay and was alarmed to see two pieces of toasted wonderbread swimming in the sauce so maybe i just picked wrong the final verdict the food was fine and if i had something going on in chinatown and i was jonesing for a little thai i would go back again but now i really really really need to go to thai x ing you can see my twitter feed admittedly short because of the tweets sent to the scotusblog feed after the jump continue reading leave a comment posted in restaurant reviews tagged dinner thai twitterblog the inaugural twitter blog posted on september 16 2008 by thriftyepicure leave a comment tonight i ll be joining some friends at kanlaya in chinatown before heading to a play at the shakespeare theater be here at 6pm sharp to watch a little twitter action leave a comment posted in quick bites thrifty epicure 2 0 posted on september 16 2008 by thriftyepicure leave a comment some of you might have noticed that there hasn t been a lot of action around here lately in fact some of you sent me a couple of very nice notes about it well i am alive and not even on vacation what i have realized however is that there is just no way to post every day or even close to every day on the blog i just need the time to do other important things like watch house marathons on usa or call my friends to complain about my fantasy football team i m sure you are all sorry to hear that but there are some positives that will come of this first i will be resuming posting this week also during this busy time i ve been learning about what i see as a great little blogging tool twitter i m sure some of you know what twitter is you can skip this but for the rest of you twitter is a microblogging tool where each entry can only be 140 characters long also twitter can be updated from your mobile phone meaning you never have to be somewhere where the internets can t immediately figure out what you are doing with your life yay anyway read more here if you really want to what twitter can do for me though is allow me to create instant reactions to the various things i m doing and that is what i m going to do with the blog i will post entries which will contain a link to my twitter profile where i ll liveblog dinners out dinners in food festivals and basically anything else i can think of afterward i ll post the whole thing on the blog proper if i don t think that twitter has done the event justice expect a longer post with more considered thoughts so starting this week here s what you can expect one long post on larger topics or events and one or more liveblogs of various places i m visitng or foods i m eating i ll try to announce the liveblogs earlier in the day on the blog so that you know what is coming if you wanted you could also follow me on twitter though i should warn you not everything i write is about food or is even vaguely coherent leave a comment posted in non food thrifty epicure at brightest young things posted on september 4 2008 by thriftyepicure leave a comment check it out folks your humble t e editor can now be seen at brightestyoungthings com writing about food and generally doing things that are both bright and young including stuff that is waay outside my general knowledge base check out my first post on the zagat guide s attempt at cheap food rankings for dc here leave a comment posted in restaurant reviews tagged brightest young things cheap food other websites zagat blogs and recipes a round up for 9 2 posted on september 2 2008 by thriftyepicure leave a comment go your own way underground restaurants underground drinking establishments popping up all over the place while i ve never been to an underground restaurant i will say that i had some of the best drinks of my life at the speakeasy mentioned in the metrocurean article nyt metrocurean celebrity chef invasion of dc continues now with more gordon ramsay dcist new fronts on the dc cupcake wars hello cupcake opened in dupont circle right across the street from your editors office expect a review soon and opening with less media attention lavender moon of alexandria dcist houndstooth gourmet this week in free events music at eastern market and marilyn monroe going out gurus eat these things this week homemade belizean pepper sauce rice and beans tuscan pasta with canellini beans the arugula files pressed chicken with yellow squash and tomatoes the bitten word leave a comment posted in week in review pesto couscous gratin posted on august 28 2008 by thriftyepicure 1 comment after a ten day hiatus from regular cooking i was back for my traditional meal plus mad men last sunday evening my return to kitchen time also happened to coincide with a lucky discovery i finally managed to track down an elusive piece of pasta now maybe that doesn t seem like that big of a deal to you but you aren t scrambling for content for your personal blog if i can t squeeze 500 words out of a search for basic grocery items maybe i just don t have the narcissism to really make this blog a serious part of my life anyway you might have noticed that the title of this post mentioned couscous couscous is a really interesting food you might think it s a grain but in fact it s pasta ranging from the tiny traditional couscous to the somewhat less tiny israeli or pearl couscous personally i dislike traditional couscous though it gets mealy it never hold up on its own so why am i writing about couscous israeli couscous israeli couscous unlike traditional couscous is much larger the size of small peas and holds up much better to cooking even better when toasted before being cooked it retains a nutty sweetness that comes from the carmelization of the of the starches in the pasta israeli couscous however has proven exceedingly difficult to find in this town which is exceedingly strange considering how easy it was to find in boise idaho yes people the state that brought us larry craig s bathroom shenanigans and bill sali s independent discovery oil alternative fuels in our forests also gave me pearl couscous in the bulk food aisle of my local supermarket something dc s whole foods yes organics and safeway giant pu pu platter haven t provided i was on the verge of taking desperate measures when i finally found some yes whole foods had heard my silent prayer i loaded up at 2 50 a pound it s more expensive than regular pasta but at this point i was desperate since my supply seems to be somewhat intermittent i ve come up with a plan to stretch my couscous supply i m going to eat so much of it that i get sick of it and then i don t want it again for months continue reading 1 comment posted in home cookin tagged dinner recipes back from virginia and blogging up a storm posted on august 27 2008 by thriftyepicure leave a comment sorry to have such a long break three things combined to slow my posting progress but hopefully not my prowess first a very long weekend in virginia beach second crushing gourmet malaise caused by the tourist trap eateries of said vacation spot finally and most excitingly i m working on a couple of new exciting things both for this blog and for my general internet presence keep watching or reading as it were for more leave a comment posted in uncategorized rw extended lunch at ps 7s posted on august 22 2008 by thriftyepicure 1 comment rw is over now i know that seems like a pretty obvious statement after all restaurant week was officially august 11th 17th many restaurants however extended their promotions and many critics suggested saving those restaurants for this week or even next in order to make restaurant week last but whatever schemes various restaurateurs may have had to gin up business by lengthening their rw promotions the excitement the totally mobbed craziness of last week has not carried over it seems i say this because at my lunch thursday afternoon at ps 7 s right in the prime lunch hour there were maybe 10 12 other parties eating we actually had to wait a second for our table but only because our hostess seemed somewhat confused by the lunch rush of four parties coming in at once once we were seated however service was very good we were pressed a little to order though i m not sure if that really passed the line between attentive and pushy but once our food came our waiter pretty much stayed out of our way he only stopped by to clean up the table after i during one of my more expansive hand motions knocked over a water glass of course there was no reason to be getting bad service our waiter only had two other tables in his entire half of the restaurant the menu was pretty big for restaurant week it isn t the full menu but seven apps eight entrees and three desserts isn t half bad though we had a lot of choice in the end we went with what had been recommended elsewhere beer poached mussels tuna tartare sliders cornmeal crusted trout the big hot brown an openfaced sandwich of turkey bacon tomato and mornay the beignets dessert and the cobbler of the day on a purely technical note i ve managed to overcome my discomfort with taking pictures in restaurants it always seemed somewhat rude to me in fact it was my friend and fellow diner who brought her camera i was just going to use the phone but for the first time we have extensive photography of restaurant food continue reading 1 comment posted in restaurant reviews tagged lunch restaurant week va beach update posted on august 20 2008 by thriftyepicure 1 comment a faithful reader also a coworker growing the readership beyond people who actually know me in non blog life proving difficult writes on the va beach front mahi mah s no second i is pretty good though i think its gotten a little tired lately when i lived down there 3 years ago it was definitely the hot destination on the strip seems a bit less so these days but it still has a great ocean view and a large beer wine selection part of my disappointment could be due to the fact that it is grossly overshadowed by the newish catch 31 salaccia at the hilton i was down there a few weeks ago and it seemed like everything revolved around c31 which is the bar adjoining the restaurant salaccia in fact it was so packed my group would have had to wait almost 2 hours for a seat needless to say i can t comment on the food i saw someone commented on the jewish mother i wouldn t make it a destination based on food alone but it s the perfect place for a post drinking greasy carb heavy breakfast that s about all i m familiar with on the boardwalk strip any thoughts comments responses 1 comment posted in quick bites tagged virginia beach entertaining on the cheap posted on august 20 2008 by thriftyepicure leave a comment a little guide from the dallas morning news on how to entertain on the cheap one quibble they suggest amongst many alcohol friendly tips to skip alcohol entirely i would suggest the opposite if everyone is three sheets to the wind nobody is going to remember to ask if the caprese uses italian buffalo mozzarella dallas morning news i must confess i got this from deb puchalla who i follow on twitter and who once linked to my recipe for stuffed zucchini on her blog thus earning my eternal devotion ed leave a comment posted in quick bites tagged cheap 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