I thought I had beat the system with Lovely Day, a hipsterish Thai restaurant on Elizabeth Street. By "hipsterish" of course I mean the design of the place, the chairs, the tiled floor, but mostly what I mean is young American (English-speaking) waitresses. Who were SO NICE when I presented them with my protein-quandary, last Friday. Nice, helpful, energetic and understanding when my friend's dish was unreasonably spicy. (It really was.) Hurray! Delicious! Best! Great!
OK, except I ordered delivery from there today. The man on the phone was super-nice, again, and very honest with me about the fact that he could not be CERTAIN that their curries were gluten-free. The (main) chef wasn't in yet and the cook who was there did not speak English very well... only Spanish, which, obviously I need to improve my skills on STAT. [Who wants to move to Mexico with me? Corn tortillas? Warm sunshine? AVOCADOS? Anyone? Anyone?]
Anyway. I told him: "Don't worry about the curry, just give me the Pad Thai with NO soy sauce and NO fish sauce." Fine.
Except... not, because using my Expert Taste Buds I will tell you that the ingredients of this Pad Thai were:
Noodles
Oil
Egg
Peanut
And nothing else. In vain I dug around our office kitchen shelves for flavor, but decided against adding: mustard, mayonnaise, Pepsi, or (non-gf) soy sauce.
[NOTE: two co-workers ordered the regular Pad Thai which was full of color and odor so I could be sure it was not just a general fluke of the kitchen, say, they ran out of chili flakes or something.]
Good news: I was not glutened!
Bad news: I am still on the hunt for a consistently communicative and safe Thai restaurant, in the SoHo-Nolita area from which to order delivery lunch.
OH, the huge problems in my life. XO
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