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Oakland  Ruth Lafler Oct 10, 2001 06:57 PM  I had a light dinner
here the other night with a friend, and I'm wondering if perhaps
we ordered the wrong things.  My friend is not what I would
consider a chowhound, she doesn't like really spicy food and she
doesn't eat red meat. Oh, and she "doesn't care much for
curries"! (What were we doing going for Thai food you ask?
Answer: she was having a craving for Phad Thai.)  We ordered a
chicken and green bean dish with kaffir lime leaves and curry
paste that tasted so overwhelmingly fishy that I couldn't eat
it. My guess was that someone went overboard with the fish
sauce. On the other hand, the dish (which was also pretty hot)
was unpalatable in such an unWestern way that I have no idea if
that was a bad preparation or if it was actually "authentic" and
just not to my taste.  The Shrimp Phad Thai was okay, but had
four (count 'em, four!) smallish prawns.  Since the place is (a)
pleasant, (b) has a nice sel