Osha Thai: Chicken Pad See Ew

I love Osha Thai. There are a bunch of Osha’s around SF – these days I find myself going to the one on 2nd between Mission and Howard the most. I ate dinner there last nght after another Photographer Happy Hour with some new friends. it was really fun and I got the “regular”… chicken pad see ew, my FAVORITE thai dish. I have my old friend Anna, the nurse from NJ to thank for my love of this dish – Anna doesn’t live in SF anymore, but when she did we used to go to Thai restaurants and she is the person who introduced me to it, thus starting my deep love for the wide rice noodle.

For a started I ordered a cup of Tom Kha Gai aka, a spicy hot sweet coconut soup with chicken. There are usually pieces of hard lemongrass in the soup along with the mushrooms but on this particular evening there were some new unidentifiable mystery pieces floating around inside. The little pieces were so hard they felt like little rocks in my mouth so I picked them all out (see photo)… and later found out it is called Galanga, a spicy thai relative of the ginger family. It is harder, firmer and more dense than normal ginger. To find out more about galanga, click here.

I don’t care what other people say, I love Osha, and Osha gets DISCO FRIES!!

Osha
149 2nd St
(between Minna St & Natoma St)
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 278-9991
www.oshathai.com