I
love Thai food, but I usually stick to either chicken pad Thai,
Cashew Chicken, or Thai beef salad because it is fairly similar at
all Thai restaurants. But most recently I have become obsessed with a
different dish because it tastes so different at each of the Thai
restaurants I find, but it tastes delicious each time. It's
fascinating.
The
dish is called Spicy Garlic and you can order it with whatever meat
you like, but I find its best with chicken. You can also pick the
spiciness level that you want. That also depends on where I order it
from, but generally I stick with medium. I love that it comes loaded
with onions and in some cases different types of onions. One
restaurant I frequent puts pepper in it, another puts fried garlic.
Its a fun dish that has a lot of flavor and can make you sweat to the
point that it feels good. If you have spent any time here you know
that there are a lot of Thai restaurants here on the Emerald Coast. I
can think of five on the same street in Fort Walton.
In
the past I have gotten frustrated ordering because I come to expect
the taste to go with what a menu item is named. But for some reason I
don't mind so much with the Spicy Garlic Chicken. I love everything
in it. It's delicious no matter what. It gives me motivation to go to
all the different Thai restaurants in our area to see how they make
it different. It's like having someone potato salad at a pot luck. It
most likely isn't how your momma made, or how you make it, but hey
not only can you learn something from it, you'll probably like it
too.