{"id":10438,"date":"2011-08-10T12:45:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T17:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=10438"},"modified":"2011-08-10T12:45:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T17:45:44","slug":"seafood-pik-pow-thai-bistro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/seafood-pik-pow-thai-bistro\/","title":{"rendered":"Seafood Pik Pow @ Thai Bistro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/seafoodpikpow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10439\" title=\"seafoodpikpow\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/seafoodpikpow.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/seafoodpikpow.jpg?resize=500%2C375 500w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/seafoodpikpow.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/seafoodpikpow.jpg?resize=150%2C112 150w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/seafoodpikpow.jpg?resize=400%2C300 400w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/seafoodpikpow.jpg?w=1600 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last night I went to Thai Bistro for dinner. Again I couldn&#8217;t decide what I wanted, so I pulled up a random number generator on my phone and let it pick. It chose the most expensive of the entrees I was considering&#8230; gee, thanks. Actually, though, it was a good thing. I went with the Seafood Pik Pow, marked as a spicy dish on the menu. I wondered what exactly made the dish spicy, and the menu helpfully described it as &#8220;Shrimp, scallops, and mussels stir fried with baby corn, mushrooms, onions,and Bell peppers in a spicy pik pow sauce.&#8221; Oh, OK, pik pow sauce, of course, now it all makes sense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My server remembered me from Sunday. After I ordered, he walked off to put in my order, then came back because he remembered I said I like my food spicy. &#8220;What level do you want? The dish is naturally a little spicy, but we can make it mild, medium, spicy, or fire.&#8221; I went with spicy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was darn near perfect. The seafood interacted beautifully with the sauce, as did the veggies, making for a meal I thoroughly enjoyed. It definitely had spice but was well within my tolerance level, so much so that I think I&#8217;m going to step up to &#8220;fire&#8221; next time. The server smiled when I told him of my future plans. &#8220;We use fresh chiles for the &#8216;fire&#8217; sauce,&#8221; he informed me. &#8220;One of the people who works here grows chiles in her back yard. She just dropped off four Ziploc baggies of really good ones.&#8221; So, if you like extremely hot spicy food, get in there now and get some of those home-grown chiles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By the way, if you&#8217;re wondering what Pik Pow sauce is, here&#8217;s what I found on answers.yahoo.com: &#8220;Pik Pow Sauce is a mixture of dried red chili, onion, garlic sugar and fish sauce blended in to a smooth paste.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They told me they will likely have their liquor license by Sunday, and if so, they will see me for dollar mimosas. A very satisfying second experience at Thai Bistro. Absolutely an A+ meal in my book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to Thai Bistro for dinner. Again I couldn&#8217;t decide what I wanted, so I pulled up a random number generator on my phone and let it pick. It chose the most expensive of the entrees I was considering&#8230; gee, thanks. Actually, though, it was a good thing. I went with the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/seafood-pik-pow-thai-bistro\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seafood Pik Pow @ Thai Bistro&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10444,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438\/revisions\/10444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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