Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Thai E-sarn Cuisine Arlington

Decided to give Thai E-sarn Cuisine in Arlington another chance after last weeks visit. They were not very busy at lunchtime today.



Again I got a nice booth next to the window. Lunch specials come with either a salad or a tofu soup and since I already tried the salad I went for the soup. The soup was lukewarm and not very exciting, there was some very mild roasted garlic and a bunch of unevenly cut silken tofu cubes in there.



Spicy Squid lunch portion. Deep fried squid sauteed with assorted veggies. This dish is conceptually so wrong, how can you serve deep fried squid drenched in a sauce? Deep fried implies crunchy and that will go out the window as soon as the sauce shows up. Having said that, this dish was excellent with a good amount of (not crispy) perfectly cooked squid and an excellent sauce, it was marked as two peppers on the menu and I asked the waiter to make sure it comes out as two peppers and it certainly did. The spicing was spot on with a nice mix of sour, sweet, salty, and bitter. Service was very attentive.

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