Thai Food... I Love Thai Food.

Living by Roosevelt Ave, there are so many delicious Mexican restaurants. I was pleasantly surprised today by friends with a delicious fried corn quesadilla with oaxacan cheese and sliced avocado. I wish I had remembered to take a picture, but I ate it so fast. I am so lucky to live in Queens, which has every type of cuisine you can think of (and good at that). I can get not only traditional Mexican, but also Thai. Thai food is vegetarian friendly, and it is one of my favorite cuisines. For dinner I had some papaya salad (som tum). You can ask them to make it vegetarian (it traditionally has dried shrimp in it and/or shrimp paste and fish sauce). I made this from scratch once and it came out pretty good, but was pretty labor intensive. I prepared the green papaya the traditional way, by peeling the papaya and then using a large sharp knife to make cuts in the flesh, and then shaving it off with the knife. Click on THIS to see a video of it. It's pretty amazing. There was green papaya everywhere in my kitchen. Tonight, I also had red curry with vegetables (eggplant, baby corn, carrot, thai basil, broccoli, bamboo shoots), no tofu. Good stuff.