I had this rice porridge dish at the newly opened Aroi Mak Mak, a Thai street food restaurant. It comes with two ginger flavored pork dumplings, a soy sauce flavored poached egg, and it's topped with fried egg noodles, fried garlic and onions, green onion, and a lime wedge. The rice porridge is creamy, you taste the garlic, and the fried noodles are crispy. The rice porridge is flavorful but quite mild. You get a couple of hot sauces on the side, with extra fried noodles, and if you tip it all into the porridge it gets really flavorful. The one hot sauce is green and smoky, and it's made with roasted green chiles; the other hot sauce tastes of Maggi and ginger. This place serves the dark, rich, and slightly sweet Beerlao from Laos, one of my favorite beers; alas, tonight they were out.
Location: Aroi Mak Mak, 344 Orange Street, Redlands, California. Date: July 15, 2019.
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AuthorChef Roland has been a legal resident of seven countries and has travelled in over thirty, documenting food along the way. He currently resides in the desert in Southern California. Categories
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