Except when I do the best first!

(See last post for relevance of topic.)

I have had a request for Seven Restaurants I Have Known and Loved and Eaten At. And I am going to begin with the site of one of my finest eating experience ever: Thep Phanom.

It's a Thai restaurant across from what used to be my domicile in the lower Haight, and it is full of wonderful things! The first time I went there might have been the first time I ever went to a Thai restaurant, and we got carry-out to take to the Mad Dog in the Fog trivia night. I got the beef and spinach in peanut sauce and said to myself as I ate the first few bites, "This is delicious, but it is much too rich!"

I did not know that you must eat it with rice! That is the right way.

When my family came to visit me in San Francisco for the second time we came back to the apartment after gallivanting about the city all day. So we were peckish, and perhaps because of that the food was especially delicious. We had beef and spinach in peanut sauce on that occasion too, and a prawn dish, and another fish (I think), and satay skewers (again, I think), and other good things, and we had little dyed-paper placemats that we took away with us (we got permission). It was a great triumph; all of my family went away saying that they must eat the Thai Dinner from this time forward.

And we still do!