Big Ed's Birthday Dinner at Khao Sarn

For big ed's bday last sunday, he decided that he wanted to have dinner at khao sarn, which is super convenient because our friend, am's, family owns the place. we often go here if we have a huge group of ppl cause am takes care of us, so it's almost like being at your friend's house for dinner.

On this night, Am did all the ordering, as usual. And she ordered a ton of dishes (which was good since we had like 20 ppl at dinner, big ed's a popular guy) so for this post, I'm just gonna stick up all the pics I have and describe what we got, even though i didn't photograph everything. Here it goes.

Many people started with drinks. Here's pretty one. It's lychee juice. And tasted like lychees. Sweet and refreshing. yummy.

Then we started with two appetizters. The one below is a spinach leaf(i think) and it's topped with toasted coconut, dried shrimp, peanuts, lime and i don't know what else. you top it with with sweet syrupy brown stuff. also very tasty.


This was the second appetizer. i think am called it a khao sarn platter. or i could just be making it up. but there are skewer of beef and chicken satay (i love peanut sauce, it's my favorite), spring rolls, fried shrimp and crab rangoon type things all served with different dipping sauces.

Here's the pad thai:

A steamed fish:
This is the salmon mousse. it's one of my favorite things at khao sarn. It's like salmon with coconut milk and red curry and i don't know what else. I think it's steamed in a bamboo leaf. at any rate, it comes out sweet, spicy and really good on rice.
This is a ground chicken dish. I don't know what goes into it, but i did eat it.
And here's one of the coolest dish presentations of the night, a seafood curry served in a coconut shell. It's got lots of scallop and squid too.

All great dishes with beautiful presentation. We all ate a ton and i got so distracted by the desserts of mango and sticky rice that i forgot to photograph them. ah well. This place is especially great if you have a big group cause you can do like we did, order a ton of dishes and share them. Then you get to try a little bit of everything. Or just make friends with an owner and have them order for you. I found that this is one of the best ways to eat. Get working on it.