It was a while ago now, but my New Year’s Eve was a fun night of drinking games and dancing. I happily woke up late the next day with only a minor fuzziness in my head.
The first thing on my mind was the fact that I needed food, and since I wasn’t around for most of the holidays, there was nothing to be found in my fridge. So I decided on Thai takeout followed by Netflix to celebrate the first evening of 2015.
I assumed that any food establishment would be open. I was very wrong. It was beginning to appear that Thai food may be out of the question until our prayers were answered and My Thai Café answered the phone. We all cheered!
My Thai Café is a family-owned restaurant located at 1020 Cook Street, near Fort. None of us had been there before, but at this point I would have eaten a shoe.
The food we ordered was chicken and vegetarian pad thai and a coconut curry. As we opened the food containers with our mouths salivating, the disappointment didn’t go unnoticed on each of our faces when the food just didn’t look appetizing.
The first issue we ran into was that the food took 30 minutes longer than they said it would. We let that slide because it was New Year’s Day and they appeared to be the only place open.
The chicken pad thai was cold and lacked chicken and flavour. The coconut curry, which was ordered to be mildly spicy, was too spicy to eat; our eyes were watering just being near it.
Lastly, the vegetarian pad thai had a lot of pickled radish. This is commonly put in pad thai; however, too much was added, and it took away from the actual flavour that you would expect from the dish.