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I just tried a new (to me) Thai restaurant last night.  I don't know how
long it has been in business.  It's called Bangkok Cuisine.  For two
people, we had Tom Kha Kai (lemon grass, chicken, coconut milk etc.
soup), a green chicken curry w/ bamboo shoots, rice, and fried Thai
noodles.  The soup was great, similar to what I had in Thailand, and the
curry and noodles were good too.  The noodles had a hint of the Thai
fish sauce, (which I like much better than the Vietnamese fish sauce
becuase the Vietnamese varieties are too strong for my tastes).

Most entrees are 5 or 6 dollars or so.  The whole dinner for two people
included the above items and one Thai iced tea and came to $21.  

It appears to be run by a Thai husband/wife team.  They are very
friendly and the service was great.  Here's the important info:

Bangkok Cuisine
5235 Prospect Road
San Jose, CA 95129
(408) 253-8424

It's in a shopping center at the intersection of Saratoga road and
Prospect Road.  It's near the Bank of America.

Give it a try.  I'm fairly sure you'll like it.

#include standard non-association disclaimer.

Chris


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From: keith@hilda.asd.sgi.com (Keith Seto)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re: Thai Bistro (Peninsula)
Date: 23 Dec 92 19:57:22 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: hilda.asd.sgi.com


In article <ICHONG.92Dec23111843@jwu.oracle.com>, ichong@oracle.com writes:
>               of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.
> Lines: 14
> 
> 
> My wife and I tried this new Thai restaurant, Thai Bistro, in San
> Carlos (San Carlos is just south of San Mateo) and we felt that it was
> the Best Thai restaurant that we've been to in the Peninsula.
> 
> We ordered 4 entres, rice, and ice coffee for a total of
> ~23.00 (not including tip).  The portions were very generous.
> The food tasted sensational.  We were going to order desert,
> but we were too stuffed and didn't have any room left.
> 
> If you want to give it a try, take 101 to the Holly exit in Redwood
> City.  Good west toward El Camino.  Cross El Camino and take a left on
> Laurel.  Stay on Laurel as you cross over San Carlos Ave. and the
> restaurant should be 1-2 blocks down on your left.

One of the best Thai restaurants I have ever eaten at was called Thai Bistro
(I think).  It was in Carmel Valley.  I wonder if it is run by the same people.
The one in Carmel Valley was run by a couple (he's French, she's Thai).  He is
a pastry chef and she is the Thai chef (that's where they got the name.)  If it
is the same people, it is worth a trip to San Carlos.  Also, if it is the same
people, desserts are excellent so you shouldn't pass them up.

						Keith
From: richardg@cheesewiz.EBay.Sun.COM (Richard Goldstein)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re: Ravioli
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:15:41 GMT
Reply-To: richardg@cheesewiz.EBay.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cheesewiz.ebay.sun.com

Whew. Little did I know what I was getting into. I LOVE California. I
HATED living in New York. That's why I'm here. As Curtis noted, my
intention was to use Pastosa Ravioli as a standard. I've gotten some
excellent ravioli out here, but they tend to be spiced differently.
Perhaps I should have opened it up to "great bay area ravioli," but,
again as Curtis noted, that may be too general. Damn, Curtis how did
you get so smart?

Sorry if I sounded like a whiny New Yorker.

For what it's worth, the best lead I've gotten so far is Queen Ann's
cheese ravioli (frozen) available at the Price Club (of all places!)
and the Menlo Park Safeway (on El Camino). They are pretty close and
taste pretty good.

Take care.

Rich Goldstein
Newsgroups: ba.food
From: jojo@leland.Stanford.EDU (Joanne Spetz)
Subject: Re: Vallco Williams-Sonoma going bye-bye
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 19:48:23 GMT


charleen@net.bio.net (Charleen Bunjiovianna) writes:
>>>The W-S at Vallco opened yesterday with a 50% off everything in the
>>>store sale, as this location is closing [..]

bcowden@bellahs.com (Bill Cowden) writes:
>I would imagine that by the time this post reaches the net, the store will
>have been picked clean.  Good luck.

I was there yesterday, doing some last-minute holiday shopping.  It is
almost completely empty.  They have some linen placemats and napkins, in
white, yellow, and a few other colors.  There are parts of dishware that
might supplement what you already own or buy at another W-S, but there's
not a single complete set.  The butcher block tables in the store are for
sale, I think, but I didn't see prices.  There are some food items left,
such as baking chocolate and some spices.  And there are some really eso-
teric cooking implements - the sorts of knives and gadgets that I can't
identify and some decorative baking tins that would serve to purpose in
my kitchen.  At this point, not worth the trip, unless you're there anyway.

Joanne
-- 
Joanne Spetz				Department of Economics
jojo@leland.stanford.edu		Stanford University

"Red-haired women buck like goats."  --James Joyce in _Ulysses_
From: cedars@mtliban.Corp.Sun.COM (Fixed Assets - Corp. Finance)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: A great place to eat
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:57:20 GMT
Reply-To: cedars@mtliban.Corp.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: mtliban.corp.sun.com


 This is for those of you who are looking for a good Italian restaurant
 in the South Bay.   Cafe Marcella is celebarating their first 
 successful year in the restaurnat business.

 The restaurant have had quite a few article written about them in
 the San Jose Mercury News, Los Gatos Times, and the Metro.  The latest
 article was in last week's SJMC Wednesday edition.  The menu is small and
 the food and service are of exceptional quality.
 
 They are located in downtown Los Gatos on Village Lane off HWY9 and
 in between University Ave and N. Santa Cruz Blvd.

 If you need additional informations, send me an email; or call the
 restaurant at 408-354-8006 and ask for Vince or Allan.  Both of which
 are my good friends.

 If you do go, or have already been there, I will be interested to hear
 your critique.

 Thank you and happy holidays.
 Joseph
From: claude@color3.UUCP (Claude Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re: (New) Chinese in Mountain View
Keywords: nn
Date: 23 Dec 92 18:26:02 GMT
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale

> I wrote:
>As a further refinement on the search for good food, I'd like to find
>Chinese restaurants that serve good (great?) food without depending on
>MSG. [...]  Going to a restaurant that NEVER uses MSG means I don't
>have to spend time second-guessing the kitchen.


(Joanne Spetz) writes:
>As I mentioned in an earlier post, we usually go to Chef Chu's.  They
>never use MSG and we think the food there is quite good.  If you like
>really spicy food, though, you might not like their supposedly-hot
>dishes.

After re-reading my original posting and a couple of responses, I
realized that many (if not most) readers probably mis-interpreted my
request for the names of Chinese restaurants that creativly use spices
for flavor in liu of MSG.  I don't like spicy "HOT" food.  I was using
"spicy" in the broader context i.e. interesting flavors; not bland.

I have been to Chef Chu's many times.  Like some other posters, I find
the prices high and the waits long.  I continue to patronize them
because I know that they don't use MSG and the food is good.  It would
be nice to have a few alternatives however.

If you know of any other Chinese restaurants in the
Sunnyvale-Mountainview-Palo Alto-Fremont-Milpitas area that prepare
good (or great) food, but NOT spicy hot, please email or post.


Claude Goldsmith, CFII <claude@sunfse.ese.lmsc.lockheed.com>
 twisted-pair (408) 742-7514	      | Opinions expressed are not 
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 through the air - Mooney N6416U      | employer.
Newsgroups: ba.food
From: sap@lucid.com (Synthia Petroka)
Subject: whole fish wanted
Organization: Lucid, Inc., Menlo Park CA
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 01:17:21 GMT

I'm looking for a fish market between San Jose and Menlo Park that sells whole
fish.  I've been to a few and they mostly carry fillets or whole trout.  I'd
like something a little more interesting than trout.  Big scales and fancy
fins are a plus! 

Newsgroups: ba.food
From: lola@lucid.com (Lola McCrary)
Subject: Baklava
Organization: Lucid, Inc.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 04:56:25 GMT


Does anyone know a good place in the San Jose/Santa Clara/Sunnyvale/Mtn View
area, or the Alameda/Oakland/Berkeley area to get good baklava?

Thanks for suggestions.

Lola
From: rwu@ismdqa.intel.com (Ronnie Wu )
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: whole fish
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:14:13 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Intel Corp.


>From: sap@lucid.com (Synthia Petroka)
>
>I'm looking for a fish market between San Jose and Menlo Park that sells whole
>fish.  I've been to a few and they mostly carry fillets or whole trout.  I'd
>like something a little more interesting than trout.  Big scales and fancy
>fins are a plus! 

	Marina (sp?) on Stevens Creek in Cupertino has large selections
of whole fish.

Ron
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Tuesday, 29 Dec 1992 18:13:30 PST
From: <RAJA@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Culture for cheese.

A question a vegetarian friend asked me recently was about the cultures used to
 make cheese. Is it made from extracts from intestines of calves? I would appre
ciate an answer from the cognoscenti.

rajagopalan......nothing to do with slac
From: lim@addvax.llnl.gov (Doug Lim)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re: Evenings and Weekends : All you can eat places ??
Keywords: Evening/Weekend pig-out joints. NOT LUNCH BUFFETS.
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:20:00 GMT
Reply-To: DougLim@llnl.gov
Followup-To: ba.food
Distribution: ba
Organization: LLNL
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1h7tneINNlvu@overload.lbl.gov>, prem@prem.lbl.gov (xyz) writes...
>		I and my friends are looking for good all-you-can-eat kind 
>	of joints to pig out in. Specifically those that offer an evening 
>	buffet or a WEEKEND buffet...... which rules out a lot of Indian 
>	restaurants.

I haven't been there in awhile and it sounds like it may be a bit of a drive
for you and your friends in Berkley...but have you heard of the Willow Tree
Restaurant in Dublin? They are near 580 before the 680 cross. They are a
Chinese restaurant, which at least used to have a buffet on the weekends from
10 am to 2 pm (???). The food is pretty good, especially for a buffet. They
also have a lunch buffet during the week. Very good INEXPENSIVE buffet. You
may want to call before you go to make sure they still have the buffet and
for further details in matching your dining needs. The Willow Tree has the
best Chinese Buffet that I have seen.
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From: tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Garlic Garlic Garlic
Date: 28 Dec 92 23:00:56 GMT
Organization: the HP Mtn.View Resp. Cntr.

I love garlic. My fiancee loves garlic.  We eat lots of garlic.
When we order pizza, we order 5X the amount normally added.

BUT, it sure smells.  It just leeches out of my pores after a 
meal with lots of garlic.  My co-workers cant stand it. I can 
shower 3 times in a row and not get rid of it... I know it is
good for you and it sure tastes good..

Does anyone have a cure for the body odor it creates?


Thanks, all 

P.S.  If you haven't tried the Frugal's Garlic Garlic Chicken Garlic,
your'e really missing something...unless you cant stand garlic.
Newsgroups: ba.food

>(Steve Pope) 
>>The W-S at Vallco opened yesterday with a 50% off everything in the
>>store sale, as this location is closing [..]
>
>Okay.  Where's "Vallco"?

If you do not know, it's too far for you to go there. :-) Vallco
is at Wolfe and 280 in Silicon Valley. If you live in the valley
you know where Vallco is. If you want to fight 
commuter and xmas traffic for the 2 hours it will take to come
down from Berkeley, you are free to do so. :-)

			   Danny Low
    "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
	   Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
	     HP CPCD   dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com
From: wallich@ncd.com (Ken Wallich)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re: whole fish wanted
Date: 30 Dec 92 18:51:32 GMT
Reply-To: wallich@ncd.com (Ken Wallich)
Distribution: ba

>In article <1992Dec30.011721.16211@lucid.com> sap@lucid.com (Synthia Petroka) writes:
>I'm looking for a fish market between San Jose and Menlo Park that sells 
>whole fish. [...]  Big scales and fancy fins are a plus! 

In addition to Race Street, Scotts' Seafood comes highly recommended.
It's in Palo Alto, I believe, on El Camino, the West side of the
street (I think it's somewhere near Applewood Pizza, but don't blame
me if it's not :-).  I'm sure someone else remembers a cross-street, I
always just find my way by sight (or smell).  Good fish and chips too.

I personally like Marina Foods, an Asian market in Cupertino, right
off of Stevens Creek and Sunnyvale-Saratoga/DeAnza/Saratoga-Sunnyvale
road, behind the BofA.  Lots of whole fish, many too 'exotic' (or
inexpensive) to be found in the more expensive seafood emporiums of
yuppiedum.  Live whole crab and lobster and blue crab.  Several of the
deceased ocean inhabitants had largish external protuberances, and
ornante steering and propulsion units, so this may be just what your
looking for.
From: spj@linus.Eng.Sun.COM (Sunil Joshi)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: ***** VEGETARIAN INDIAN COOKING CLASS *****
Keywords: veg
Date: 31 Dec 92 08:13:42 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: linus


(Here's a posting for two cooking classes. These happen about once every
 2-3 months or so.)

----------------------------------------------------------------------
                VEGETARIAN INDIAN COOKING CLASS


Learn a variety of highly nutritional, popular, Vegetarian Indian
dishes. They are easy to prepare, and are neither too spicy nor sweet.


        * Hands-on Participation
        * Requests for dishes from participants welcomed.
        * Low cooking oil, low-salt recipes
        * Variety of dishes, including:
                        vegetable curries       lentil soup
                        salad variations        desserts
                        chutneys                side-dishes
        * Handouts include tips for variations in recipes.


Instructor: Vidya Joshi (408-720-9249)

---------------------------------------------------------------------
CLASS #1:

TIME AND PLACE:
                Mondays, 6:30 to 9:30 pm.
                Starting Jan 25th, 1993
                        (4 weekly sessions: 1/25, 2/01, 2/08, 2/22)
 
        -->     Pre-register by Jan 15th, 1993  <--


REGISTRATION:
                Los Altos High School,
                Mtn. View- Los Altos Union H.S. District,
                Los Altos.

                415-940-1333


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                Wednesdays, 6:30 to 9:30 pm.
                Starting Feb 3rd,1993
                        (4 weekly sessions:2/3,2/10,2/17,2/24)

        -->     Pre-register by Jan 27th, 1993  <--

                Fees- Pre-registration: $44
                Lab:                    ~ $20(materials)


REGISTRATION:
                Prospect High School,
                Saratoga (Near Lawrence and Saratoga Ave.)

                408-947-2300

_____________________________________________________________________
From: cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re: Culture for cheese.
Date: 31 Dec 92 17:40:59 GMT
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View

In article <92364.181330RAJA@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> RAJA@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
}A question a vegetarian friend asked me recently was about the cultures used
}to make cheese. Is it made from extracts from intestines of calves? I would
}appreciate an answer from the cognoscenti.

Most cheese is indeed made with extracts from or pieces of dried
newborn calf stomach soaked in brine. The substance is rennin (also
known commonly as rennet, which is perhaps the useful derivative of
rennin). Your vegetarian friend can get rennet-less cheese at Bread
of Life and other health food groceries. Bread of Life has "Rennet-Less"
stickers on their cheese to advertise the fact. There is no (IMHO)
degradation to quality; my wife and I buy and eat/cook with rennet-less
cheese as a rule. The only downside is an appalling lack of selection;
hopefully this and many other downsides to non-mainstream foods will
lessen as economies of scale kick in.

-- 
Curtis Jackson			'91 Black Lab/Blue Heeler "Studley Doright"
cjackson@mv.us.adobe.com	'92 Collie/Golden "George"
DoD #721			'91 Hawk GT	'81 Maxim 650
"I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead." -- J. Buffett
From: blanch@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (David Blanchard)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:54:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Chinese food on Castro
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: ba.food

We went to Fu Lam Mum last night for dinner. The Szechwan Seafood soup was
excellent, the fresh (out of the fish bowl) Sea Bass was great, the
Spinach was adequate. The service sucked. It will be a while before I 
try it again, except that my lady wants to try the fresh shrimp they
usually showcase in the window. They were out of them last night.

DavidOB --- blanch@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com

Newsgroups: ba.food
From: shedevil@leland.Stanford.EDU (Anne P. Mitchell, JD)
Subject: Re: ...a call for great pot stickers!
Reply-To: shedevil@gw.home.vix.com (Anne P. Mitchell, J.D.)
Organization: Fathers Rights & Equality Exchange
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 17:49:23 GMT

In a recent missive DaPete@cup.portal.com (Pete o Wilkinson) tells us:
>...so I was reading all the fine reviews of the various Chinese (and like) 
>resturants in the MV/PA area and I was wondering:
>
>Where are the BEST pot stickers `round here?
>


The ones from Cho's are [or at least used to be] very good!..Cho's is a
little hole-in-the-wall on California Ave. in P.A...they have about 2
tables..but they do take out, *and* sell their product frozen, ready to
be cooked!
From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re: Cafe 1843? (used to be Christopher's)
Date: 3 Jan 1993 05:24:28 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: zion.berkeley.edu

glass@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Adam Glass) writes:
>
> Anybody know anything good or bad about a place called 'Cafe 1843' on Solano?
> It used to be called Christopher's.
>
> Someone chose it randomly as a site for a birthday dinner and 
> wants to know what they've gotten themselves into...

If you liked the old Christophers (and many people did),
it should be essentially the same -- the staff took it over
and changed the name.

Steve
From: sharen@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Sharen A. Rund)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re: Ravioli
Date: 23 Dec 92 19:00:54 GMT
Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.

In article <1992Dec19.161425.1237@netcom.com> bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) writes:
>In article <1992Dec19.065646.1898@adobe.com> cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson) writes:
>>}>
>>}>Ok, I'm a man with a mission. Where can I get OUTSTANDING cheese
>>}>ravioli in the Palo Alto area? As a reference standard, I want to use
>>}>ravioli from the Pastosa Ravioli Store in Brooklyn. Come on, there must
>>}
>>}Richard, it'll never happen.  What you want is the cheese ravioli
>>}you got at Pastosa's Ravioli Store.  It ain't here.  This is 
>>}Californai.  That was New York.  Go back to New York.  Visit Pastosa's
>>
>>Hold on. As one who has in the past violently chastised people for
>>whining about not being able to find food exactly like somewhere else,
>>I married a non-whiny one), I beg to differ here. The guy is just asking
>>if there are any other displaced New Yorkers who know exactly the kind
>>of food he is looking for and can recommend something damned close.
>>That's why he specified the New York particular as a "reference standard."
>
>OK  I was having a bad day.  I will apologise if I over-reacted.
>I just think that the percentage of ba.food readers who have been
>to that particular restaurant and eaten the cheese ravioli is
>extremely small.  I think a better question might be....
>
>I really like cheese ravioli.  Can anyone recommend a really great
>cheese ravioli in the Bay Area?
>
>

as I suggested to Richard, the best place I know to get ravioli is:
  
  PIANTO's
  3443 Stevens Creek Blvd
  408-243-5336

plan on standing in line around now cuz almost all the Italians in
the greater San Jose (Sillicon Valley) area order therir ravioli at
Christmas - its's a family owned and run Italian Deli

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From: sharen@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Sharen A. Rund)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re: Ravioli
Date: 23 Dec 92 19:04:13 GMT
Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.

In article <1h4u3tINNe3r@male.EBay.Sun.COM> richardg@cheesewiz.EBay.Sun.COM writes:

[ some stuff deleted ]
 
>
>For what it's worth, the best lead I've gotten so far is Queen Ann's
>cheese ravioli (frozen) available at the Price Club (of all places!)
>and the Menlo Park Safeway (on El Camino). They are pretty close and
>taste pretty good.
>

Costco sells a pretty good frozen raviloi too, don't remember if its
Queen Ann or not


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Newsgroups: ba.food
From: ichong@oracle.com (Ivan Chong)
Subject: Thai Bistro (Peninsula)
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA
Distribution: ba.food
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:18:43 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.


My wife and I tried this new Thai restaurant, Thai Bistro, in San
Carlos (San Carlos is just south of San Mateo) and we felt that it was
the Best Thai restaurant that we've been to in the Peninsula.

We ordered 4 entres, rice, and ice coffee for a total of
~23.00 (not including tip).  The portions were very generous.
The food tasted sensational.  We were going to order desert,
but we were too stuffed and didn't have any room left.

If you want to give it a try, take 101 to the Holly exit in Redwood
City.  Good west toward El Camino.  Cross El Camino and take a left on
Laurel.  Stay on Laurel as you cross over San Carlos Ave. and the
restaurant should be 1-2 blocks down on your left.