We started with the corn cakes. The plate came with 2 corn cakes, each about 4″ in diameter. It was pretty good, sweet, a little crisp on the outside and even sweeter with the sweet cucumber sauce on top. The corn cakes at Thaihouse were nice and simple… Basically, just corn flattened into patties. I’ve had corn cakes at other places where they had veggies and meat… these corn cakes were good. Less is more!

Above is the “award winning” Pad Thai. According to the menu, the SF Guardian has rated Thaihouse Pad Thai as the best Pad Thai in San Francisco. This reason alone is why I decided to order this dish. When it came out, I thought I smelled hamster bedding, but then I realized it was probably just the nutty smell of crushed peanuts mixed with the sweet sauce.

Overall, the pad thai was pretty good. I can’t say that it was amazing or even the best that I’ve had.. but it was good. It’s downfall was that the noodles were just a tad bit overcooked… they were so soft that it made the dish a little softer and mushier than I would’ve liked, but overall, it was pretty tasty.

Thai House Express
599 Castro Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 864-5000
www.thhexpress.com/

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I ordered the Charbroiled Prawn with steamed rice because I thought that it would warm me up withouth making me feel like a total load.

Take a second and try to count how many pieces of food there are on this plate.  1 Scoop of rice, 1 dish of fish sauce, 4 pieces of broccoli, 7 shrimp.  I’m sorry, but that is not enough food… not for $8.50 and not for a starving Kir… I gobbled up the shrimp and the broccoli pretty fast, and I was still really hungry so I ate the white rice which you know is soooo not filling in a “filling” way… *sigh*.  Will try something else there next time.

Oh yeah, the shrimp was good.  It was just sauteed with some pepper and garlic, pretty simple… the broccoli was lightly steamed.  The fish sauce was good and the rice was good too… cooked perfectly, not too soft, not too grainy and it had that nice popcorny smell.

I’m giving today’s lunch 2 stars because I think it wasn’t enough food, and it wasn’t oh so spectacular.  It was good but it wasn’t good enough for $11… but I will go back to try the garlic noodles – they smelled divine.

Perilla
510 Mission St
(between 1st St & Ecker Pl)
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 777-1893
www.perillasf.com

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