  dinner tonight with sm and sf @ curry village (previously reviewed, and i've added today's comment to that review). yum-yum. sm recalled how gw broke a sweat when we three went there last. this time, i broke a sweat. sf was like this is what he eats at home and sm was so cool. i had to empty sm's glass of water in addition to two of my own! thai chin on saturday, after some of my non-discreet raving and wishing, sk took me to thai chin a "new" "restaurant" "by" taj mahal . taj was advertising the impending opening of thai chin for some time so i knew they were affiliated some how but i did not know how closely until saturday: thai chin is the once solarium room of taj mahal. i recently came across an entertainment guide to hali and in it a menu for thai chin. my mouth watered at the thought of various advertised hakka dishes which made me so eager to try the place out.
however, unfortunately, when we were there, the real menu indicated that the menu is still in progress and what is currently available is only thai food and some chinese food that i would not dream of trying there anyways. (no green curry no green curry no green curry....) i ordered for us a green papaya salad (6.95 or something) while we decided what else to order. sk selected a pineapple shrimp curry (14.95) and i chose three pagodas chicken (10.95) and we ordered one order of rice (3.95). i also ordered mango shake (3.95, tastes like it was made with yogurt) while sk ordered a mango driver (5.95, mango juice & vodka). i ordered papaya salad because that's a cool dish to eat. (i remember when p had one in his car before one was ever available in hali and that was probably the best papaya salad that i've never eaten. ) little did i know there was overwhelming coriander in it - the menu lied. :( pineapple shrimp curry was much like sweet & sour dish with runny sauce that i'm all too familiar with.
but the shrimp was not battered and there was a thai-tang to it - that's the only way i can describe it! even though i did not order green curry, there was something unpleasantly familiar tasting about three pagodas that i thought they had slipped me green curry instead (except the curry was red).
it had a soapy / detergent scent that i could barely bear. the environment of thai chin can not be berated as much as that for taj mahal (proper, and all that it currently is) because the solarium room is far nicer and classier compared to the other obnoxious dining room. our server (never seen her there before) was a really sweet girl - they do have very polite and proper servers except for the really loud one from last time.... (three point eight / five) yikes (mcdonald's) if i had checked out the urlLink nutritional value of mcdonald's meals, i probably would have saved myself from a lot of this junk! you see, i'm a complete and total mcdonald's breakfast junkie. my favourite breakfast is sausage 'n' egg mcmuffin (450 calories, 28 g fat) with a hashbrown (180 calories, 8 g fat) or two. :p i mean, i'm not a calorie counter or anything (can't be bothered and half of it would be left blank because i'm guessing about the caloric content of my mother's meals....) but learning that (a few weeks ago, browsing while waiting in a restaurant), has really deterred me from getting breakfast again.... it goes back to me being irrationally scared of the some irreversible effect of me having such a deplorably junk meal!
i have a confession: when i worked in toronto, i had a metropass (or whatever they called it there) and could hop on and off subways and buses at my leisure. there was a term (one of my best in recollection) where i was a member of the y and after a workout at 6 a.m., i would head to work and there was a mcd's at the intersection where i worked (or any any intersection where there was a subway station for that matter) and so i became an all-out mcdonald's breakfast junkie that term. urlLink read more.... 
