Sawasdee Thai Food

Oh man. So good! Sawasdee is another of the food carts down at 9th and Alder in downtown Portland. We've got to get a group shot of that area sometime. It's neat. There are so many options down there, that I feel a little bad going to the same place twice, let alone getting the same thing twice, but their pumpkin curry warrants being a "repeat offenda" as my friend Booyeah might say. The pumpkin curry seems especially apropos right now since the weather is feeling more and more like fall. Waiting on the my bicycle waiting for the bridge to open and close, I knew I wanted something warming. And then halfway there, I knew. THE PUMKIN CURRY MOTHER BLINGERS, YEAH!

Anyway, it's a nicely sweet yellow curry sauce with green bell peppers, basil, tofu (optional. you can get meat or something if you want) and pumpkin. It's probably not the variety of pumpkin you are familiar with. It's green on the outside and orange on the inside. Similar to an acorn squash maybe? They cook it with the skin on though. With little score marks on the outside. It's delightful though. One thing about this place though, I got 4 stars today, and it was really mild. If you like it hot (some do), you might have to specify that yes, you may be whitey, but you like spicy food. Unless your not a whitey, in which case that would be a stupid thing to say. Maybe they were just out of hot pepper, I dunno.

I've also had the Spicy Egplant (pictured as well), and it was pretty good. Not as good as the pumpkin curry, and again, not spicy. Worth eating, but honestly I would say just go with the Pumpkin curry. Scott thinks it is one of the best things on the face of the planet.

EDIT : I forgot to mention that when I went there today, they had switched from those big nasty plastic to go containers to the nice waxed cardboard containers! I thought that was great, so I wanted to mention that.