I liked Satay in austin. Here in Dallas Bangcock Inn is just around the corner from me and they have this great garlic chicken thing I adore. Also Thai Soon here is good.

Where's that other Indonesian place that you were talking about in that other topic somewhar else?

Yep, you guessed it, Chronicle readers say: Thai Kitchen

OK I'll go along with this for now. Let me do some research.

Yum! I feel another craving coming on.

A thai attack?

Needin beanthread noodles, spicy, spicy please. The BEST Thai restaurant is here in Denver -- Wild Ginger!

I've heard of her.

And... what exactly did you hear? Any first hand experiences?

Second hand. Can't tell.

too bad for you (second hand and all) I wonder what the first hand thought!

It was a case of the first hand not knowing what the second hand was doing. Where were we now?

Deep in the muck!

I came close to Thai food tonight but opted for Wheatsville instead. The cashier told me they are having a profitable year. Part of Austin's general boom right now.

I rarely pass up an opportunity for Thai food!

I have a hard time not stopping in a Wheatsville, the old perpetual stomping grounds.

The comparable places here would be Wild Oats and ALfalfa's and I too have difficulty wandering by w/o popping in.

Going out for Thai food tonight -- Wild Ginger!

Went to Satay Fri night!

Wild Ginger was excellent. Tom Yum, Pad Thai Woon Sen and Jungle Curry oh, and a SingHa.

Satay is sadly lacking in tempi dishes. Anyone up on tempi besides me?

Don't know what a tempi dish is, but for Thai food, the best I've found, surprisingly enough, is out right by my house in Cedar Park (suburb of Austin for you out-of-towners) on the southwest-ish corner of 183 and Buttercup Creek Blvd., called Poothai. Everything made from scratch, to order, by a real-live authentic Thai woman. MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, yummy! The Pork Larb (LOTS of cilantro), the Pad Woon Sen, and of course, the Pud Thai! wooeeeee! They don't have a liquor license, though, so you's gotta bring yer own.

I've been there. Great place. Used to hang there with the Haystack crowd, Paul Boomgaart, Crosby Marks and Marta Z.

Time to shamelessly display my ignorance again. What mean-um "Haystack Crowd"?

The folks at Haystack Labs I used to work with, inside comment. Great bunch of folks.

What did you do there?

SQA engineer and tech support on UNIX (AIX, Solaris, SunOS, NT4.0, SGI, etc). Haystack (http://www.haystack.com) does active security for UNIX operating systems and websites. Steve Smaha, renowned international security expert, is the CEO.

why'd you leave?

Mo money.

Every second Friday Mr. C. has a free day. Then we stick the kids in their playgroup and spend the day together doing silly things and argueing. ha-ha! On that day we always have lunch in this (for Z�rich) sleazy little Thai Restaurant, called Ban Song Thai. It's dirt cheap, you can get your own food from a buffet in the window, and it's absolutely delicious.

When we were in Zurich, it was virtually impossible to get vegetarian food--we ate at the same fondue place every night!

Where did you go - Fribourger St�bli? Or the Ch�sstube? I love both. But you're right; it IS virtually impossible to get vegetarian food here. And when you do find it, it's usually pretty appalling. Though, there's an indian restaurant if you take tram 15 up the hill from Central to Bucheggplatz - they have some wonderful vegetarian dishes there. I only discovered it about a month or so ago, and quite by chance. Only took four years. Who knows in ten years' time I might be able to name you another name! I presume it's alot easier to find vegetarian restaurants over there. Where IS over there? Are you in England or America, Autumn?

I can't remember the name of it, Riette, but it's near the Wasserkirche (the one with 2 towers) not far from the train station. I LOVE Indian food!!! I wish we'd known about that one, but...maybe next time! BTW, I live on the east coast of the US, in Maryland (near Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Wash DC). Ever been here?

The Ch�sstube then. Great place! No, I've not been across. But my sister has been living just outside Boston for three years now - she married an American guy. Unfortunately I've been either pregnant, about to give birth, in labour or with small baby(s) the whole time, so I've not had the chance to visit. I'd love to go, though. Her husband is a truly nice man, so my limited impression of Americans is quite favourable.

i'll have to correct that but haven't i already?

No thank you, and no, you haven't - I'm not pregnant. Or am I wrong? Oh, you mean, you want to show me that Americans are really quite terrible? ha-ha!

In my limited travel (only the UK, France, Canada, and Mexico) I haven't noticed that we're really much more or less terrible than anyone else... But that's just my worthless opinion. :-)

hey WER... finally up on telnet at home but have zero ability to scroll back. Is there something I can change? Also, my screen refuses to display my mail through 'pine' so I brought up 'elm' but have no idea how to send a message after I've used the editor... any suggestions (new mail format would certainly be welcome.. those are just the only two I know.)

nope, you have now crossed outside my realm... hafta ask Thomas or Paul...

Yoo hoo! CotC... Paul... (perhaps I should sing the song...)

(I think that could very well be appropriate...)

There's a SONG about Tommycotchi's now? Sick world!

My elm skills are kinda rusty, but I think you can either type a period on a line all by itself and then hit enter or type ^D (Ctrl-d), which should cause it to ask you if you want to: save file /tmp2358 or something like that. Tell it y. Then (I think) it'll give you several options, one of which is s)end message, so tell it s, and you missive will be merrily on its way. I think...

Or you can set up pico as your editor in elm by using 'o' for options.

see, Stacey, you just had to think about your song for it to work in here...

Ate at Satay for the first time tonight... first time for Thai food, as well... what we had was very good.

I love love love Thai food.

What did you have, muffin?

I'll have to go look it all up in what I ate today over in food...

Oh, it's okay, I'll go have a look. I'm taking my partner out for lunch today, to my favourite Thai place - can't wait!

had Thai last night. B's out of town so I did the take out thing. I couldn't decide what to have so I got two entrees!

THAT DOES IT!!!! I'm going to eat Thai tomorrow. I've been hearing about it for three days now. IT'S TIME.

So, What did you get?

Vietnamese...

Allow me to rephrase the question. Among those who ate THAI food. What did you have to eat?

I don't have a clue! My favourite Thai place only does the buffet thing. But there's a spicey chicken sauce, spicey, crispy fist nugget things, REALLY spicey chicken wings, fried vegetables, wonderful white rice, hot beef, nudles, great sauces, every day a different buffet. I'll send some along with your chocolate....

$hit, what are my fingers up to? I'll try again. There is a spicey chicken SOUP, spicey, crispy FISH nugget things, etc. etc. etc.

I will look forward to it. I'm going by Lammes tomorrow. I'll see if I can't get it Fed-Exed. I can see where your mind is.

You can?? Please tell me, 'cos I've been looking for it for days!

I hope IT's right between your ears. However it was obvious that you were stil excited about the Thai food, even thinking about it made you feel good.

Way back when I had Thai food... I had Phad Thai Woon Sen (variation with bead thread noodles instead of fetticine sized noodles and Phad Eggplant.

Sounds good. Where did you have it?

Wild Ginger (of course!)

Is that the name of a restaurant?

yes, the restaurant just around the corner from my house... my fave hangout when I've got to hang out alone and I'm hungry!

Good name for a Restaurant.