Typhoon is one of the best Thai restaurants in town. ( I am just talking about the Redmond Typhoon, I’ve been to the one in Seattle, and even though the menu is the same, taste was totally off!) Typhoon’s dishes are different from the traditional Thai restaurant fare like the red, green and yellow curries and noodles with familiar names. Their dishes are so extraordinary, it is a favorite lunch place for the Microsoft crowd. Try finding a table for a Friday lunch, the place is packed with groups of office crowd! My friend M and I try to go there regularly for lunch, and we always end up getting their Drunken Noodles! We’ve lost count of the number of people we introduced the drunken noodles to, not a single person has disliked this amazing dish. More about the Drunken Noodles later.
Last Wednesday, M and I decided to go out for drinks after work and then watch the American Idol result show. Yes, I admit it, I’m hooked to American Idol! Since M is a fellow addict, we try to watch it together whenever we can. That is the main reason we picked Typhoon since it is so close to her place, we can really get sloshed and walk home just in time for the show. We don’t normally go to Typhoon for drinks, since it has been established as our lunch place. The drinks turned out to be not so bad! Well, I have to say that the drinks were kind of girly, not too much alcohol, but I am a girl and that’s how I like my drinks, especially on a weekday.
I started with a Mango Mojito - Muddled light rime, lime and fresh mint served over ice with a splash of mango juice. This wasn’t what I expected it to be, I was thinking of a predominantly mango-ish drink, but this just had a hint of mango juice, but I liked it , tasted very smooth.
M went for a Lychee Cosmo - Classic Cosmo with fresh lime, cranberry juice, lychee and sour mix shaken and served up and garnished with lychees. I had a taste, it was a regular Cosmo, again pretty nice tasting.
My second drink was a Raspberry lemon drop - classic lemon drop with vodka, triple sec, muddled lemon and a splash of raspberry puree. I got it just for the color, it was a fiery red, and was good.
M’s second was the Mint Chocolate Chip Martini - Vodka with Godiva white chocolate, creme de menthe served up with whipped cream, for the color too. Neither of us liked it very much, first of all M doesn’t like whipped cream and had to remove it with a spoon. Also she described it as a green Pepto- Bismol, I thought it tasted like my toothpaste.
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- Raspberry lemon drop ($7.50)
- Lychee Cosmo ($7.50)
- Mint Chocolate Chip ($7.50)
- Mango Mojito (above) ($8.00)
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Overall, drinks are good, but not out of this world type of good, but the food more than makes up for it.
We wanted to keep the appetizers light to save the space for the main course. M is vegetarian, so I decided to just share some veg nibbles with her.
Miang Kum ($8.95) - They call this a rare Thai peasant dish. Wrap a pinch of toasted coconut, shallot, ginger, lime, peanut, dried shrimp and Thai chili in a spinach leaf with their signature sauce, then pop in your mouth to burst in a medley of flavors. This is another favorite of mine, very yummy. I wish there were more spinach leaves, we ran out of the leaves before half the ingredients were gone.
Steamed Veggie Rolls ($5.45) - Steamed vegetarian spring roll with glass beanthread noodles. A very fresh tasting dish, it has to be had hot.
Then comes our main course. Drunken Noodles, I have already said enough about this wonderful dish. No, there is no alcohol in it, the wide rice noodles are drunk with the spicy thai sauce. To give a context, this is similar to Pad Kae Mao in regular Thai restaurants, but it is not like any Pad Kae Mao I’ve ever had. A must try dish. I got the drunken noodles with chicken, and M got it with Tofu.
Drunken Noodles with Chicken ($10.95) 
Drunken Noodles with Tofu($10.95) 
We spent about 3 hours there, and with all these drinks and food the check came to just about $35.00 per person before tax and tips. Isn’t that great? Overall it is a great place to hang out after work in the eastside, not the hip place where you go to see and be seen, but a place to go to catch up with friends over nice drinks and amazing food.
The evening was great, except for the fact that Sanjaya was finally voted out of American Idol. I was not a fan, but I felt pretty bad when he was crying at the end. After all, he is a seventeen year old kid who has shown some amazing courage week after week to get on stage and sing his heart out knowing fully well what America thinks of him. He is one of the most famous people in the US right now, he’s got something going for him. Good luck Sanjaya, I’m sure you will go places!
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M.Kum !! I love it !! It gives me a feeling of paan .. hehee
Good review, Sig!! And thanks for the review .. being a vegetarian my choices are limited and love knowing any new place to try.
hey sig, good review there! dishes look pretty good. If my memory serves me right, I think I’ve had that appetiser Miang Kum at P. F. Chang, don’t remember what name it was served under. Had the veg version so no shrimp, was yummy.
Sig,
Excellent review, dear. This seems like the kind of place i would go to. i love Thai food and this one seems to have some good stuff. i loved their idea of spinach wraps :). something that i would try for sure.
Cheers,
musical.
Hey Mythili, looking at the picture I thought of paan too :).
Yeah, my restaurant reviews are normally not very vegetarian friendly :). If you haven’t been to Typhoon, give it a try, and get drunken noodles, I’m sure you will love it!
Richa, thanks girl. I have had the Miang Kum at another thai restaurant here too, haven’t had it at PF Chang’s, will look out for it next time.
Musical, yeah my friend is vegetarian and she loves this place, there are a lot of choices, and it is contemporary Thai. If you are ever in Seattle, you know where to go
Seems like two friends had a really good time…loved the noodles…
does anyone know the bartender’s name - it was a Wednesday night, and I arrived at Typhoon at 5:10 and was there until about 9pm. He was my bartender while I waited for my guest at the bar, as well as our server.
He has nerdy hot good looks (dark, short/shaven head of hair, cute oval glasses, intellectual-looking, preppy-but not too much so, conspiracy pirate like myself.) Anyone have any ideas for me…?
If you ever come to the Orlando, Florida
area the Golden Thai resturant in Longwood,
Florida a small family owned place to eat
is a nice choice.
Hope it is still around if you make it to
DISNEY WORLD or to UNIVERSAL STUDIOS in
Central Florida.
The bartender’s name was Garrett. I believe he now works at Blue Water Bistro in Kirkland