Happy Birthday Will! Wish you healthy and accident free for the rest of the year!
Today Wasabees celebrated our good buddy's 27th birthday! Wanting to reflect our sweet and spicy friendship with Will, we decided to eat at a Thai restaurant. It is not easy to find a good Thai restaurant with nice ambiance in San Jose area. As a result, we had to put some extra effort on Yelp this morning to find a suitable restaurant for the birthday dinner. With a 4-star rating on Yelp and some nice pictures taken by other yelpers, "ThaiBodi" was the winner for the day.
By it's name, "ThaiBodi" is a Thai-Cambodian fusion restaurant located on El Camino Real near San Thomas Express way. When we first arrived, we were somewhat taken back by the cheap looking plaza and the restaurant building. To our surprise, the interior design of the restaurant immediately changed our first impression by 180 degrees.
The restaurant is VERY vegetarian friendly. The vegetarian options covered about 3 pages on the menu. It seems like they just replaced most of their dishes from the regular menu with tofu and/or more vegetables. In fact, this is what Didi and I normally do when we visit restaurants serving South East Asian food, since their food is all about the spices!
From reading all the description, everything on the menu looks delicious! So we ended up ordering the following:
Starting up with a typical appetizer, we order roti. This roti is very different from what we have ate before. This pancake have very similar consistency to that of a Chinese Green Onion Pancake(蔥油餅), and yet it doesn't taste bad.
The Tom Yum Soup is tasteful. The chef clearly knows his spices! They are able to maintain the soup's signature flavor even though we requested it to be made at a reduced spiciness level. Also we find it quite unique for the restaurant to be using a hot pot to serve soup, when usually they are just served in a large bowl.
With the coming of the movie Rio, and the continuous hype of the Angry Birds iPhone application, we were intrigued when we saw the dish "Angry Tofu". Expecting slingshots and explosive tofus, we were pleasantly surprised by the dish. The flavors made us wonder, why were the tofus angry in the first place?
A typical yummy American thai restaurant pad thai.
Pineapple fried rice without the pineapple. Well, there might have been pieces in the fried rice, but it was so minimal that we don't even remember eating any. However the dish was still good. Being served in a pineapple bowl helps bring out the unique tangy flavor.
We should never leave a Thai restaurant without trying out their spicy Penang Curry! Took this picture after we all jumped onto the dish...
The waiters there were very nice to us. They offered to take another "better" group pictures for us after the first request.
Happy Birthday + Happy Food + Happy Friends + Happy Thoughts = Yay!
V-Rating Vegetarian Friendly
Taste ★★★★☆
Ambiance ★★★★☆
Service ★★★★☆
Price $$$$$
Overall ★★★★☆
2155 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95050
(408) 248-8868
Hours:
Mon-Fri 11 am - 3 pm
Mon-Thu 5 pm - 9:30 pm
Fri 5 pm - 10 pm
Sat 12 pm - 10 pm
Sun 12 pm - 9:30 pm
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