{"id":171,"date":"2007-03-11T19:45:51","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T02:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/food\/171"},"modified":"2007-03-11T19:45:51","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T02:45:51","slug":"thai-tom-faceoff-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Thai Tom Faceoff, Round 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eight months ago<\/a>, Lauren<\/a> and I started on an NCAA-style tournament through the 16 dishes on Thai Tom’s menu. Today began round 2, and I expect the last few meals to come out in rapid succession. This is an inexact science, as 3 chefs rotate through Thai Tom’s burners. For example, while #10 was a clear favorite based on previous tastings, today it fell short. Was it due to the change in chefs? A bad delivery of eggplant? Who knows, but it just didn’t have the gusto needed to hold up against the sassy Swimming Rama’s peanut sauce.<\/p>\n

It is becoming clear that there are two classes of dishes at Thai Tom (Division I and Division II if you will). Dishes such as Sweet and Sour Chicken are solidly in division II, and Garlic Beansprouts is permanently disqualified (a mini-dead kenny for it). If we decide to re-stage the tournament again, we would restrict entry to Division I (I’ll provide a full breakdown when all is said and done). A recap of the current state of affairs follows:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE (04\/11\/2007):<\/strong> After a break for Passover, Panang Curry handly overran #4 (Thai Sauce Chicken) as the quarter finals continue.<\/p>\n

UPDATE (04\/17\/2007):<\/strong> Cashew Chicken cruised to an easy win over the popular, but less exciting, Pad Thai.<\/p>\n

UPDATE (04\/24\/2007):<\/strong> Completing round 2 was a close match between #9 and #12. At the end the garlic was king for Garlic Pepper Chicken.<\/p>\n

UPDATE (05\/02\/2007):<\/strong> They were out of Panang Curry (next time I’m instituting a forfeit rule!). So it was a back-to-back Garlic Pepper Chicken appearance, but it was no match for Cashew Chicken.<\/p>\n

UPDATE (05\/12\/2007):<\/strong> In the closest match yet, Panang Curry squeaked by Swimming Rama (probably #1 and #2 seeds in next year’s match :))<\/p>\n

UPDATE (06\/20\/2007):<\/strong> The winner of the 2006-07 Thai Tom crown is….Panang Curry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eight months ago, Lauren and I started on an NCAA-style tournament through the 16 dishes on Thai Tom’s menu. Today began round 2, and I expect the last few meals to come out in rapid succession. This is an inexact science, as 3 chefs rotate through Thai Tom’s burners. For example, while #10 was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}