Thai food with MaMa

My mom flew out for a visit this week, braving the not-so-frigid Ottawa winter for some quality time with the grandkid. Since it was her birthday last week, last night we ventured out to celebrate. At a restaurant. With Henry. Taking a toddler out for dinner is always a dicey proposition, as anyone who's been in a restaurant at the same time as a toddler can probably understand. The fact that he was throwing a minor tantrum before we wrestled him into the car didn't bode well for the excursion. But sometimes it pays just to grit your teeth and carry on. He'd calmed down completely by the time we got to the restaurant and sat in his high chair the whole time, so we were able to enjoy our meal.

And enjoy it we did. We went to Nokham Thai, a little place in a strip mall out in the west end of the city that has a good rep. It. Was. Good. Really good. On par with our all-time favourite Thai place, Sa-Bai Thong in Madison. Well, I thought it was on par with Sai-Ba Thong. Tom put it a definite notch below, but he concedes his view may be coloured by nostalgia. At any rate, we'll be going back to Nokham. Even Henry liked it--chowed down on chicken satay and ate a bite of he spicy beef salad. Go figure.

We've tried four different Thai places since we moved here and liked all of them. Yay! We really missed having good Thai food when we lived in Richmond, where the Thai is sub-par (sorry Thai Diner fans). We lived on the stuff in Madison. We may go back to our old ways.