{"id":692,"date":"2011-04-19T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/food\/692"},"modified":"2011-04-19T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T01:29:00","slug":"thai-tom-2011-match-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Thai Tom 2011: Match 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garlic and Pepper vs. Eggplant Ginger (Passover versions with tofu and no rice)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Match 4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lavoie\/5636381913\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Match 4\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5187\/5636381913_fbcaeb65cc.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few Passovers ago, Lauren discovered that if you order a dish at Thai Tom without rice, they will happily serve it to you over spinach instead and it\u2019s delicious. So when my mother-in-law was craving Thai Tom on her visit this weekend, we were prepared. <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s match involved two of my favorite stir fries. #10 (Eggplant Ginger) was my first love of Thai Tom, with thin slices of Japanese eggplant that soak up the ginger-soy goodness. #9 (Garlic and Pepper), while not quite the <a href=\"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/food\/628\">crack-like-version<\/a> I had in Mae Hong Son, still uses a heavy hand of both garlic and pepper to whet your taste buds. In the end, it was a very close call, but the nod went to Eggplant Ginger. If you have a group of three though, get both (with a curry as your third dish of course)!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"488\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><em>Updated results of the <a href=\"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/food\/664\">Thai Tom 2011 Tournament<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garlic and Pepper vs. Eggplant Ginger (Passover versions with tofu and no rice) A few Passovers ago, Lauren discovered that if you order a dish at Thai Tom without rice, they will happily serve it to you over spinach instead and it\u2019s delicious. So when my mother-in-law was craving Thai Tom on her visit this [&hellip;]<\/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":[89,68,90,78],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-food","tag-review","tag-seattle","tag-thai-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","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=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}