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This weekend, friends of mine took me to eat at Satay Sarinah in Alexandria in the Van Dorn Station. It was Indonesian food. I'm no expert, as I always think Malaysian and Indonesian are similar, but I did enjoy the food. We started with a variety of satays- lamb, beef and chicken- nice and smokey. I ordered the Spicy Rujak salad, it was cabbage, sprouts and carrots with the spicy peanut sauce, covered with shrimp chips- good, not the best i've had though. For entree, I had the Rengdang Daging- beef slow cooked in a gingery stew- also very delicious. I like the side of curried pickles. I also sampled my eating companions' lamb shank which was very tasty. I think for the price (8-12 dollars), this place was pretty good. -
Thai Lemongrass was recommended to me by a Thai gentleman as a simple, unfussy place for weeknight-carryout Thai food. I had dinner there this evening, and that was my impression: a decent neighborhood restaurant, worth your Tuesday-night dining dollar, but not something you'd travel for. Everything on the menu is marked with a maximum of one chili pepper (one being mild), with the scale on the bottom noting that the dishes can be ordered with two (medium), three (hot), or four (very hot). Spicy Squid Salad ($6.95, ordered medium) came with all body meat, nicely scored, and not overcooked. The thin sauce had the roasted flavors of a chipotle-based salsa, and seemed to get the majority of its heat from a powder. I was impressed with the Tod Mun ($6.95), fried shrimp cakes which often come in uniform disks, but these were much more irregular, and hot out of the fryer. The cucumber in the salad showed a similar spirit in knifework as the scored squid. The Thai Lemon Grass Steak ($12.95) was five strips of a tough, flankish sirloin, marinated in herbs with a soy-based dipping sauce. Ordered medium-rare, that's exactly how it was served, but this was the one clunker of the evening. Mus-Sa-Mun Chicken ($10.95, ordered hot) is a southern Thai yellow curry with redskin (!) potatoes (*), onion, thick-cut carrot, and roasted peanuts that were pan-fried separately and added on top of the dish. Incidentally, I believe Mus-Sa-Mun is a similar word to the French <<Musulmans>>, which means Muslim (there is a large Muslim population in Southern Thailand). Cheers, Rocks. (*) For those of you who don't know, redskin potatoes are potatoes that don't perform very well when they're on the same field as giant potatoes.
