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Wed, 14 Nov 2007

Lemongrass disappoints on the Pad Thai

In my previous post on Lemongrass, I noted how they did the General Tso's Chicken dish right. Alas, they did not do so well on the Pad Thai. It was wrong in just about every way. The noodles were angel-hair, which doesn't make sense outside of Italian dishes. The seasoning was not reminiscent of other Pad Thai dishes at all, and was bland. They used whole peanuts rather than chopped peanuts. The green herbs (I don't know what they're called) that taste good in Asian cucumber salads simply don't belong in Pad Thai. It was just a complete disaster.