Thai dinner

As promised, here's the blog post about the Thai dinner that we had yesterday. It was at a place called Ananda in Akasaka. The food was delicious, although I only had a little bit of everything because my stomach was still a bit sore. Here are a few pictures of what we ate!

Thai fish cakes, as an appetizer. The fish cakes were perfectly sized, and the cucumber-peanut sauce went perfectly with it. 

Thai papaya salad, otherwise known as my favorite Thai dish. This dish is the reason that we came to this restaurant in the first place. Last time my parents came here, they asked to make the salad at an authentic Thai spice level. And it was so spicy that only my mom could eat it. She said it reminded her of a Thai papaya salad that we had in Bangkok, and so she had to make me try it. Now unfortunately we couldn't have that level of spice, but it was still spicy and still delicious. I think we're planning on going again sometime in the week so that we can have just the Thai papaya salad at authentic spice level and mango sticky rice.

This was salted chili soft shell crab. I haven't really had crab much, but this was good!  It was pretty spicy, and the outside of the crab was crispy and the inside was nice and soft.

Rice in a pineapple - this was just rice with chicken and pineapple pieces in it. Nice and mild!

Thai red curry! Definitely different than the red curries that I'm used to, but equally as good. There is jasmine sticky rice on the side. 

And finally, mango sticky rice. A perfect end to a good meal.