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Sabai Thai Restaurant
0 Stars ****SWILL ALERT**** Today, I feel like a doomed protagonist in a food tragedy gone horribly wrong. This place serves fare from Thailand, China, and Japan. The sushi roller is Thai, the cook Chinese and no one is Japanese. As I've mentioned repeatedly, sushi is only consumed in Thailand by tourists. These places tend to be hit-and-miss. This is a stand-alone; although the name is prevalent throughout the States, it is not part of a chain. At least not that my editor could find out online. Annie is the server and handles the entire restaurant impressively without missing a beat. She is working 12 full tables. This shows you want tenacity and hard work will get you. I asked Annie for some Pad Se Eaw, Green Curry with Tofu, a J.B. Temaki Roll and one Tuna Roll. As soon as Annie returned with my grub, I snapped a few pics and got to work. Everything looked and smelled fine. However, that is not why people eat. People eat because they are hungry and the food is good. Their offering of Pad Se Eaw was first up on the Big Boy's palate. Pad Se Eaw are stir-fried flat noodles with egg and fresh vegetables served in a Thai sweet soy sauce. If it only tasted half as good as it read, this would be a different review. As it stands, the sauce was fetid and inedible. Or maybe the noodles were bad. Regardless, I couldn't eat it. After the failed Pad Se Eaw, I focused on the Green Curry with Tofu. I love Green Curry. Traditionally served with bell peppers, carrots, bamboo shoots, green peas, zucchini, horapha (Thai Basil), and snow peas simmered in coconut milk and green curry paste. The combination of the Green Curry zing and the Coconut Milk's sweetness is one of my favorite flavor combinations. My protein of choice for this dish was tofu. I knew this was not good in one bite as the tofu was dry. This told me it wasn't stored properly. Now, whoever made this dish knew that when they got the tofu out of the walk-in or from under the prep table and decided to serve it to me anyway. FAIL. The J.B. Temaki roll was staring at me in anticipation, and I figured it had to get better. I wrapped my meat hooks around it and tentatively took a bite. It tasted so fishy that I checked the dumpster on the way to my car to see what smelled worse. This was waaaaaaaay past edible. Strike 3! Usually, I would call it quits at this point, but I did have one more selection to sample—their Tuna Roll. After the fishy J.B. Temaki, I was extraordinarily leery but had a job to do. SMELL YOUR SUSHI ROLLS PEOPLE. These little Thai clip joints hold the near fatal sushi for the rolls. I waived the fish under my proboscis. My nostrils just closed in sympathy with my recollection. Absolutely life threatening. The Big Boy says, “I just spent $72.00 for an unsweetened tea! Do NOT eat here. ****SWILL ALERT****
This place was fabulous! We were in a rush and they had our orders in and the food out super fast. And it was not half-baked. It was extremely tasty. We opted for Thai, getting a Massaman curry with chicken and a noodle dish with beef. Both of these were amazing. Total cost after tip was still under $40 which is unheard of for 2 people in 2023. We are often in the area but rarely eat out due to having family we usually eat at home with. If we have another night where we need to grab dinner, we would absolutely come back here.
Apollo Diner
Older classic diner that was recommended by my local car dealer when getting service. It's very rustic in a nice way with a warm homey feel with lots of wood. The menu is fairly typical Greek diner style but they also sell some Arabic and Turkish products by the counter went with the classic biscuits and gravy with a side of two scrambled eggs. This had very thick.and rich sausage gravy which is sure to fill your stomach. I felt there was a bit too much black pepper in it for my taste, but you may like that. The scrambled eggs helped mellow it out. The coffee was OK and smooth, refilled frequently. The wait staff was super friendly. I would like to try some of the other classic dishes here and see if how that is But for now, I would give this 3.5 stars, until I am back on this area again.
A local home feel diner with delicious food and friendly service. We came for breakfast and we weren't disappointed at all. Highly recommend this place to visit while in town.