A periodic look at stuff I’ve been consuming recently.
Restaurant: Thai Sakon; St. Johns Street, Huddersfield
I’ve developed quite a thing for Thai food recently. Green curry in particular is a favorite. The combination of tongue tingling spiciness and fragrant delicate taste is refreshing respite for my Chicken Rogan Josh battered palate.
Kerry and I took a rare opportunity to go out for a meal last Friday and went to Thai Sakon in Huddersfield; a restaurant that neither of us had been to before, but had heard good things about.
I’m usually someone who cuts serving staff a fair bit of slack. It’s not the most pleasant job in the world and I know that I would be completely awful at it. So as long as I get my food at some point in the evening and there are no obvious signs that my steak hasn’t been used to mop the toilet floor I’m pretty happy.
Saying that though, the service at Thai Sakon was bloody awful. It took a whole hour to get our starters, and a further forty five minutes to get the main course. Kerry was given the wrong side dish, we were given somebody else’s bill at the end of the night, and when we eventually got the right one they had overcharged us.
So all in all you’d think we wouldn’t go back. But the food was bloody marvelous. The crispy noodles were crisp and noodley, the Jungle Curry was nice ‘n’ spicey (good god was it spicy. At one point steam was coming out of my ears a la Daffy Duck), and the vegetarian Pad Thai was… well it didn’t have any meat in it so it can’t have been that nice, but Kerry seemed to enjoy it.
Amidst their numerous apologies the serving staff told us they had never been so busy and they were finding it hard to cope. Due to the sheer quality of the food we’ve decided to allow them the benefit of the doubt and give them another go. If they prove as incompetent next time though we won’t be going back. Which is a shame, because my tastebuds are still tingling with the echo of that magnificent Jungle Curry. Yowsa.
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Amazing the sins that can be forgotten with a good meal.
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What is it with Thai restaurants??? - we had a very similar experience and with my head hung in shame I admit we’ve gone back thanks to yumminess.
I’m sure Kerry’s veggie meal was very nice too.
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Luckily, we have two great Thai restaurants within a third of a mile from our house. One of them has very indifferent staff (actually just a mom and her teenage son) and the other is staffed by real service people with an interest to serve. Believe it or not, we sometimes crave the indifferent staff.
I am going to try some green curry today!
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Ed - Never a truer word said. In fact I have it on good authority that te only reason Satan was banished to hell for his rebellion is because he could only cook packet noodles.
Lee - But did you leave a tip, that is the true measure of British middle classness, receiving horrendous service and then leaving a tip because you have a vague nagging feeling that it would be rude not to.
Dan - Sometimes too much attention from the waiting staff can be very trying.
And Green Curry is the food of the gods.