Tonight Bret and I
realized that we didn't have the right ingredients to prepare any kind of
dinner. The truth is that we could have eaten anything we wanted (I thank God we
have all this food in the fridge and pantry!) and it didn't necessarily have to
go together, but it was me who wanted
to eat out...again. We decided to go to Nathalee Thai's (the closest
restaurant to our house) because I was craving noodles! We know that Nathalee Thai’s is not vegetarian, much less vegan,
but we still went because "we're pretty good at picking out anything from
the menu and ask for it to be vegan."
We ordered the papaya
salad—the only vegan thing on the menu! When the salad arrived, to our
surprise, we saw little pieces of dried shrimp all over! We got scared to see
so many tiny little carcasses! “Ahhh! It has shrimp!!” -- we almost sounded
panicked. Yuck, it made my stomach turn….In no way would we eat that!
“Oh, I thought you
knew…” the waitress said.
“No, we didn’t,” I
told her. “I was happy to find at least one vegan salad; I didn’t know it had
shrimp.” She nicely offered to take it back and prepare a new salad without
shrimp, phew!
I just could not
eat animal meat, not even if it touches my food—when I go to a restaurant, that
is. If someone cooks for me, I can easily and discreetly take out the meat, but
at restaurants I just cannot and 
will not eat meat. We also Pad See Ew as a second
dish; we had to ask for this dish without egg and when it arrived at our table
we had to look at it closely to make sure no egg snuck in there. Since I already
had the image of the little dried shrimp in the salad, my taste buds were not
all messed up now. Soon we realized that the food just wasn’t appetizing
anymore, but we were so hungry we ate—but to be honest, the food did not taste
good to us…
What Bret and I learned
from this experience is to not go to non-vegan restaurants. We usually never do
and now I know why. If the restaurant is not vegan, somehow little animal
carcasses and/or animal products seem to creep in the food! Nasty. So we both decided
we will not go back to Nathalee Thai’s. Not only was the service not good, the
food was not filling and I distrusted where it came from. Right now my stomach
feels gross…So from now on, we'll definitely stick to eating only at vegan or vegan friendly restaurants!
Good night!
Bea
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