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Lobster Tom Kha Soup

by Jillian Bedell January 23, 2013

It was one degree Fahrenheit when we left the house this morning. One. The loneliest number. I know all anyone is doing on Facebook and the news and in the bank and at school and work and wherever you go/look/listen is complaining about the cold. It’s boring, frankly. But, also, at the risk of sounding [...]

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Long Grain

by Jillian Bedell September 10, 2012

The first time I had Thai food I was a college freshman in Boston. My dad came up to check on me and ask if I was already behind in science (I was) and how I’d managed to spend $300 in two months at the Campus Convenience store (Marlboro reds and milk for White Russians, [...]

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Thai Chicken Noodle Soup

by Jillian Bedell May 20, 2011

Because it’s been raining for one hundred and sixty-eight hours and the end of times is imminent, today we need soup. And because I don’t get to go to Ivy Noodle on Sunday with my roadtripping collaborator and his northbound mom, I started searching for soups with a Chinese/Thai flavor profile. Specfically, the chicken curry [...]

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Boda

by Jillian Bedell April 26, 2011

I was bored by dinner at Boda. And I’m trying to get to the bottom of it. We arrived at seven-ish on a Friday and waited for two couples ahead of us to be seated. We admired the dining room from diminutive benches, hidden between the door and the host station. The lower dining room [...]

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Siam Orchid

by Jillian Bedell November 2, 2010

When we ate at Siam Orchid at one o’clock, One City Center was as dingy as a Social Studies class filmstrip. I expected to see cohorts of ladies named Linda in big-shouldered suit jackets and Reeboks, chortling over chicken teriyaki. Instead we met Dawn from Appetite Portland, already gingerly eating from Styrofoam boxes. We were [...]

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Chiang Mai Two

by Jillian Bedell September 28, 2010

I just had the best Tom Khar Kai of my life. And I want to tell you all about it. I shall paint you a word picture. Imagine it: a deep cup of light coconut creamy broth that reveals three or four adorable, plump and buoyed mushrooms, big pieces of white chicken, a few glistening [...]

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Noodles, Here and Elsewhere

by Jillian Bedell August 9, 2010

Many years ago, when the edges of Union Square were still ragged with homeless kids and civil disobedience, there was a cold corner of extant Communism where we sought refuge from the world outside; this place was called Republic. This was where we met after work and where we went for noodles. On the day [...]

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Pom’s Thai Restaurant: Should’ve Skipped Seconds

by Malcolm Bedell August 5, 2010

When we move to a new place, one of the first things we do is try and get our source for decent Thai food locked down. Without a Thai place, where do you go when you’ve been mattress shopping all night, and don’t have the ability to cook a meal, or even dial a phone [...]

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