Siam Nara Revisited

A reader recently asked me if I'd been to Manila Fast Food and Desserts recently, because she thought things had changed. I hadn't been in about six months so I thought I'd check things out....problem was; it was Monday and the place is closed on Monday. Duh.... So, I had to find a place for lunch. There are quite a few options in this strip mall and I chose Siam Nara since I hadn't been back in over seven years!

The place still looks quite nice inside.

I hadn't planned on having Thai, so I really wasn't prepared and ended up choosing something off the lunch menu.

Which started with a very bland, water-logged "soup".

Soon enough my plate of food arrived....good lord, this was pretty large. Since I hadn't been to Siam Nara in so long, I'd forgotten a couple of things....like, even though I ordered the som tum "spicy", it had barely any heat at all, was light on the fish sauce, and too sweet for my taste. I totally got "gringo'd" on this one. Or perhaps that is basically how they make the food. The sticky rice was very moist and perhaps the most unsticky, sticky rice I'd had in a while.

Man, that's quite a bit of fried chicken; which was nicely fried, crunchy, but very bland. I wasn't going to use any of the sweet chili sauce, until I bit into the very dry chicken....it was so dry...then I recalled that all those years ago; I thought the kai yang here was on the dry side as well.

I'm going to stop here and not even go into the egg roll and the potato curry won ton thingy.

Yes, it's a very generous amount of food, but it's just not my kind of Thai.

Siam Nara
8993 Mira Mesa Blvd
San Diego, CA 92126
Hours:
Open Daily 11am - 10pm

Comments

[caninecologne]

:(

[kat]

:(

[Kirk]

Yes CC and Kat......not very good! ;o)

[Soo]

Doh! I hate eating dry chicken.

[Kirk]

This was a disappointing meal Soo.

[Junichi]

Bummer.

[Kirk]

Total bummer Junichi!