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It’s the house specialty at Mr. Tod’s in Somerset, New Jersey.

It’s fabuluous! Thai home cooking that really is authentic! Not only is the setting beautiful, the food was super tasty. Try the Tod Mun Kung (cispy corn and shrimp), Keaw Tiew Kai Kua (sir fried broad rice noodle with...

, which is downtown and across the street from the Adam’s Mark, is also pretty good—American food with some French and Italian touches, nice wine-bar-style room, a little noisy, but fun. Over in Five Points, I like...

This is a great distillation of Pollan’s work. I predict that many more people will read it than read TOD. It’s a lot shorter and very accessible. His writing style sucks you in from the gitgo, and there’s a bit...

Visiting Baltimore & D.C. this summer. Looking for the best place for crabs. I have always been partial to Gunnings in Brooklyn, but haven’t been there in years. Is it still as good as I remember? Are there any other places...

, but was built on some nasty old iceberg lettuce instead of bright green leaf lettuce which, had it been employed, would have earned this place higher marks. Like I said, all the flavors were good, but a few points off for...

Mark - Excellent review. Thanks for taking one for the team.

Speaking of the Saint Lamvinus, recently I was able to score my personal all time best deal of the century on some bottles. A local store had a bunch in stock and marked them down to $8 a bottle! I couldn’t believe my eyes....

accessibility, Ruan Thai in Wheaton is only 5 minutes from the Metro and is, I consider with Thai Square the best thai restaurant for taste and authenticity in the metro region. Get the Nam Kao Tod.

Thai Cafe has wonderful combination seafood noodle soups (octopus, squid, fish balls, rice noodles) in broths not too salty but flavorful just the same. Make sure to try their roast duck over spinach, tod mun fish cake appetizer,...

there for lunch today — a plate of tod mun, nicely spongy and non-greasy, and my customary order of Thai sausage, crisp-skinned and full of juice (and lovely fat!). How’s their wild boar curry?

Newk makes a good dessert beer, light and sweet. Last beer of the evening before todding off to bed. But only on tap.

I agree that in the nam kao tod the sausage is barely visible and that the sticky rice is dissapointing...more like rice pudding with some coconut flakes. It completely missed the mark.