Thread:Betty2015/@comment-27860632-20160912042212/@comment-32738051-20160914131612

I saw this and thought I would jump in briefly. I'd love to spend more time talking about desserts and chocolate is what caught my attention. But then I read about Betty's rice dish - which looks awesome and I want to try it myself sometime - and that reminded me of a Thai restaurant I used to frequent in Atlanta called Jitlada. They had the best - and freshest and most delicate and subtle - thai fried rice with chicken I've ever had. 😋 Unfortunately, the restaurant has long since closed (the ones in L.A. and Vancouver aren't the same people) and I don't have the recipe but below is a recipe link with a picture that is a close approximation. I just found this recipe so I haven't tried it yet and I'll bet some experimentation would be required, especially with the seasonings, to make it even close to Jitlada's. If I remember correctly, Jitlada's differences were their jasmine rice was fresh; they used scallions but not onions and they added fresh chopped basil to theirs; they fried the rice in the pan like the recipe but without the egg and I think they finished the dish in a steamer adding both the tomato and cucumber slices at that point (possibly also boiled egg slices but my memory is fuzzy) so that those ingredients seemed more warm but fresh rather than cooked. Anyway, if any of you try your hand at it, let me know what you think of it.

http://www.realthairecipes.com/recipes/thai-fried-rice-with-chicken/

The one thing I will say about desserts though is if any of you are ever in Atlanta, you should visit Café Intermezzo. They do have a food menu and it is good but what one really goes there for is the beverage menu (about 60 pages if I remember correctly of specialty coffees, cordials, teas, juices, etc.) and the desserts, for which they give a tour of a continually rotated selection of about 100 different ones (Google images of their desserts). Not cheap. I've spent $50 for two for beverages and desserts, without getting anything from the bar. But if you want a decent dessert selection and coffees I doubt you can get anywhere else, I've yet to discover its equal. 😋

Crawling back into my cave now... 😉