Thai food in Budapest...surprisingly good!
As I lead the life of a budget traveller these days, which means my meals generally come from grocery stores (bread, salami, chocolate, water, cheese, fruit) and are [weather permitting] eaten in parks. However, once or twice a week I will take myself out to a nice dinner. Tonight, being a Friday night that I intentionally didn't have plans for (I'm tired -- a result of sleeping in a easy-to-move bunk, with a girl above me who moves A Lot during the night), I decided to have one of my Meals In A Nice Restaurant.
Now, I've had mixed results with Thai food in Europe. To wit, the pad thai in a restaurant in Manchester was really sweet and had no zip or real flavor. Thai food in London was surprisingly good at a Thai buffet, which is usually a recipe for disaster, but I was realllly hungry and it was even cheap.
Tonight, I had a lovely beef in garlic sauce, with vegs, dish. Very tasty, if not spicy. But while so often non-spicy Thai food doesn't have much flavor, this restaurant was the exception to that. And, I had enough beef to make up a small steak. So, yummy and protein and iron rich all in one. I'd been hesitant because there weren't many people in the restaurant.
Such a lovely surprise.
To report on the day's activities: I walked a lot (big surprise there). I took a short funicular car ride to the Royal Palaces, walked across the Chain Bridge (the first permanent bridge between Buda and Pest), had my hair flying in millions of directions in the wind, sat on a bench close to the RP and read my Harold Robbins book (go on, smirk all you want -- I'm desperate for reading material and it was one of the few English books at the hostel...the other one I picked up is a very well-written, but very disturbing novel (Iain Banks first book)(I did find a book shop with English language books today, but I wasn't prepared to pay fifteen or more dollars for one of the books I was interested in reading -- I wasn't That Interested in any of them))). Took another lovely nap (see previous comments about not sleeping soundly in the night), went on walk and then out to dinner.
Now, time to write in my private journal, read some more, then find the earplugs and catch and early night's sleep.
I've switched bunks...
Now, I've had mixed results with Thai food in Europe. To wit, the pad thai in a restaurant in Manchester was really sweet and had no zip or real flavor. Thai food in London was surprisingly good at a Thai buffet, which is usually a recipe for disaster, but I was realllly hungry and it was even cheap.
Tonight, I had a lovely beef in garlic sauce, with vegs, dish. Very tasty, if not spicy. But while so often non-spicy Thai food doesn't have much flavor, this restaurant was the exception to that. And, I had enough beef to make up a small steak. So, yummy and protein and iron rich all in one. I'd been hesitant because there weren't many people in the restaurant.
Such a lovely surprise.
To report on the day's activities: I walked a lot (big surprise there). I took a short funicular car ride to the Royal Palaces, walked across the Chain Bridge (the first permanent bridge between Buda and Pest), had my hair flying in millions of directions in the wind, sat on a bench close to the RP and read my Harold Robbins book (go on, smirk all you want -- I'm desperate for reading material and it was one of the few English books at the hostel...the other one I picked up is a very well-written, but very disturbing novel (Iain Banks first book)(I did find a book shop with English language books today, but I wasn't prepared to pay fifteen or more dollars for one of the books I was interested in reading -- I wasn't That Interested in any of them))). Took another lovely nap (see previous comments about not sleeping soundly in the night), went on walk and then out to dinner.
Now, time to write in my private journal, read some more, then find the earplugs and catch and early night's sleep.
I've switched bunks...
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