Social Night

This is La Thai Uptown, a wonderful place to spend your Tuesday night. It happens to be Social Night. What does that mean for you? $5 appetizers, $5 Stoli cocktails and $2 Abita beers.

Shall I break it down into even further deliciousness for you?

You have the option of the following appetizers; vegetable springs rolls, summer rolls, shu-mai, skewerless chicken sate, crispy coconut shrimp, crispy calamari, mama's stuffed chicken wings and mussles.

An overview of the table that night. I realize this may look like a lot but it's not. And...it was so delicious that we reordered some of our dishes! So..maybe it is a lot. But I'm a Super Tourist. Trying everything is part of the plan, so you see...we had to.

This was the first item to arrive at the table. The shu-mai. A steamed chicken and shrimp dumpling with a sweet garlic soy sauce. Delicious. Sad that there's only 4 of them. They were gone before the other 5 plates hit the table!

Skewerless Chicken Sate was the 2nd item to arrive. I discovered that I don't like peanut sauce and the rest of the table only found it mediocre. Next time we'll probably leave this one off and venture to other options available on the menu. But with a $5 price tag, you've got to try everything once right?  

A tasty plate of crispy calamari with a sweet chili sauce came next. For those of you who are in favor of the traditional marinara I highly reccomend you head straight for a serving of sweet chili sauce next time. My mouth is watering just thinking about it! It's sweet, it's spicy, it's everything you didn't know you wanted in a fried calamari dish! (And for $5 it's a huge plate!) And so good, we ordered a 2nd plate of this one!

Mussels. The best thing to hit my taste buds all night!!! Steamed mussels served in a curry broth with a side of pomme frites. This dish is soo good it deserves a gold star. Make that 2 gold stars. It was so good we had to order a 2nd bowl of this one too! I had to contain myself to keep from slurping up the curry after the mussels were all gone. Thank goodness for fries which dipped every so nice into the curry. This was the best dish of the night, hands down!

A small intro...Hillary & Nate. Our newest best buds here in New Orleans take us often to eat. And my favorite part is that Nate is a trained pastry chef. Which means...

DESSERT!!!

On the left is the Sweet Sticky Coconut Rice served with fresh mango & berry slices. You'll notice the forkfull that's missing I couldn't break the camera back out in time to catch this dish before Nate had at it! Then I got distracted by the chocolate cake and had to have several forkfulls before I could bring myself to stop eating and take a picture. Wow. Double Wow. Two fantastic dishes. Thanks Nate!

La Thai is located at 4938 Prytania Street in Uptown New Orleans. You can call them @ 504.899.8866.

This brother sister duo has been in the restaurant biz for quite some time learning all of the ropes from "Mama" who leaves her namesake on the menu here and there. They have won many awards the latest being 2nd place in the King of Lousiana Seafood competition where Diana was the first ever female chef to compete!

All this talk about food makes me hungry. It's dinner time. Good night everyone!