Showing posts with label Thai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thai. Show all posts

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Date Night: Madam Mam's

FIRST BLOG POST IN MORE THAN THREE YEARS!

Hello old friend! Let's catch up. Some things have changed over the past couple of years. I graduated from UTSA (Go Roadrunners!!), started my Human Resources career, and got engaged to the love of my life! Things are good!

I am excited to start blogging again. This will serve as my "food diary" and help me reflect over the years. It was fun looking back at my old food posts!

So last Saturday, it was storming like CRAZY. Austin and surrounding cities were even flooding! So what did the honey and I do? We ventured out into the storm and go out to eat 20 minutes away from our home. We're nuts. I'm glad he was driving his truck because 1.) my driving skills at night have declined and 2.) my coupe would not have made it in the storm.

It took us about 30 minutes to figure out what we wanted for dinner. Is this a glimpse of married life? If so, that's not so bad. Plus, if it's the only "REAL" issue we have, we should be just fine! By the time it took us to figure out what to eat and for him to pick me up, it was almost 9:45pm. Dinner at 10pm? YIKES! Luckily one of our food/restaurant staples was open until 11pm that night. Madam Mam's is our FAVORITE Thai place in Austin. We've probably had more than 50+ lunches/date nights here during our 6.5 years together.

The honey orders the same thing every time.. The Pad Spaghetti Kee Mao with flat noodles, pork, chicken, and extra noodles if he's feeling hungry. He got lucky this particular night because the chef must have been feeling generous. They happened to double his usual order. He had a HUGE plate! You can't tell in the photo, but his plate was a lot larger than mine. It was so funny because our waitress said "WOW! So heavy and so much food!" and she made a funny comment about him eating the whole plate and he said "Oh, I will!" If you know my honey, you know that he can eat! He's lucky he has a fast metabolism. Me, not so lucky. Pfft.

I go back and forth between my two favorite plates... The Pad Thai with beef or Pad See Ew with beef. This time I got the Pad See Ew with beef and flat noodles. One day I will be able to make these two dishes like Mam's does (HOPEFULLY!). They are so amazing, tasty, garlicky, and packed with flavor.

Look at that plate! It's all gone!!!


Madam Mam's 
Village Shopping Center
2700 W Anderson Ln Suite 419
Austin, TX


Happy eatings! :)

Friday, July 22, 2011

Food Photo(s) Friday - Tasty Thai

I am a HUGE lover of Thai food and one of my favorite dishes is pad Thai. My usual place is Madam Mam's, but a couple of weeks ago my hubs and I discovered Chang Thai (right in the Wal-Mart shopping center off of Parmer + IH-35). I noticed this restaurant changed their name a couple of times, so I wasn't sure if it was good or not. I checked out some Yelp reviews and thought I would give it a shot... Plus it's right by my house. I'm so glad that I gave this place a chance. 

13000 N IH-35
Ste 200

Austin, TX 78753

My Pad Thai w/ Beef
(NO BEAN SPROUTS!!!) =P
Honey's Pad Thai Combo (Beef, Chicken, + Shrimp)
Here's the thing I love about Chang Thai: 
They have different options for the pad Thai. Honey got his with flat noodles (the ones that usually come with pad see ew) and an egg omelette on top. 
The flat noodles made the pad Thai much juicier and flavorful.
I would definitely recommend the flat noodles over the regular rice noodles.
Tom Yum Soup
Spicy & flavorful.. So delicious!

This place is definitely gonna be one of my go-to places for Thai food. Love it!

Happy eatings! =)

Monday, March 21, 2011

Road Trip to Houston

I had planned on leaving Austin @ 10:30AM, but the boys always lag! (GRR!) But that's ohkay. We still had enough time to hit up 3 eateries and HK4 in Houston. So that's 4 places in 4 hours. LOL. We did a lot of eating in a very small amount of time. Here are some photos of our food!

1st place: House of Bowls
6650 Corporate Dr
Houston, TX 77036



Curry beef and rice


Egg pancake and rice


Beef fried rice w/ an egg


Japanese style Ramen w/ seafood


Japanese style Ramen w/ beef (I think.. LOL)


Garlic and scallion chicken wings

(Food was AWESOME. My friends were right in recommending this place.)

2nd Place: Juice Box
9889 Bellaire Blvd #109
Houston, TX 77036


 Fresh fruit =)


Strawberries, watermelon, and mangoes w/ ice cream, shaved ice, and condensed milk
YUM!
The 5 of us shared this... It was massive!




Strawberry juice

(Now I know why this place is all the rage.. It was yummies!)

13602 Bellaire Blvd
Houston, TX 77083


Pad Thai w/ chicken and shrimp


Drunken Chicken

(Ehh. The food @ Thai Spice was ohkay. It wasn't the best Thai food I've had.)