Restaurants from this weekend

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Between Friday & Saturday, I went to 6 different restaurants this weekend. Typhoon for Friday lunch, Rock Bottom Brewery for after work drinks, King & I for Friday dinner, Sun-Ya for Saturday lunch, Earth & Ocean and 1200 Bistro for Saturday night drinks and dinner! No wonder I am always broke!

Anyway, since my blog has turned into mainly about food and restaurants, here is my review on all those great places.

Typhoon

One of the favorite lunch place for the Microsoft crowd, Typhoon is not your typical Thai restaurant with the red, yellow, green curries and Pad Thai and Pad-Kae-Mao’s. Their dishes are innovative, but at the same time very authentic. 4 stars at Typhoon means 4 stars! My favorite dish? Drunken Noodles with Chicken, there is no comparison at all! My team goes there the first Friday of every month for lunch, and 90% of us order the Drunken Noodles. It has become our team dish somehow!

Rock Bottom Brewery

Friday evening, some of us from work headed out to Rock Bottom Brewery in Downtown Bellevue for a much needed drink session… It was great to unwind and blow out some steam… I think all the great team building exercises should include alcohol… Rock Bottom is always vibrant and lively with the after work crowd, you can’t really hear yourself think, but isn’t it nice to know that no one can overhear the gossips you share anyway? The beer is awesome too! Not much to say about food, Nachos are nachos anywhere right? Here is Maya and I posing for a Camera phone…

King and I

Unlike Typhoon, King and I is a typical Thai place, but that is not a bad thing. They do have all the traditional Thai curries, and the noodles, and all those are just great. My favorite is the Chili Paste fried rice and any of the curries with chicken. The fact that they take Microsoft Prime card - buy one, get one entree free - that is just icing on the cake! This would be one of our favorite lunch places, but it is in Bellevue, not that close to work…

Sun-Ya

Siv and I are big dim-sum fans, and where else can you expect great dim-sum but in Chinatown? So Saturday we headed out to Sun-Ya, I wanted to have this great dessert we had there the last time we had been, I just don’t remember the name, but it was made with cucumber and coconut jelly and was very cooling and not too sweet! Anyway, we reached there at 1 , there was a long wait, no parking, but the good thing is you can just leave the car out there in front of the restaurant, and get a number and whenever there is a parking spot free, the old guy redirecting traffic outside will come and get you, you can go out and park the car! We got a table after about 20 minutes. We ordered the typical dim-sum dishes that we get, but somehow I thought Nobel Court (in Bellevue, our regular dim-sum joint) just did a better job… I couldn’t put my finger on it, but something was amiss, some of the dishes were cold, some were too oily, black bean sauce on the eggplant-prawn dish was too watery… Siv thought things were just fine, may be I am just used to Noble court food… The sad thing is they didn’t have my cucumber desert! I think I will just stick to dim sum for lunch on weekends on the east side, may be china town is too authentic for my taste.

Gotta go now , I will write about Earth & Ocean and 1200 Bistro another time. Still waiting for the pictures from Hema. We went to these two places to celebrate her Birthday, it was a fun outing…

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