restaurant recc. at LAcon

[ellenkushner]

I thought the Thai food would be superior out here, and boy was I right! John Dumas took me for a little spin in his Miata convertible (had to get that in here!) and we fetched up at a little joint in a stripmall 1.8 miles from the convention:
PAT'S HOUSE: Home of Thai Cuisine
12541 S. Harbor Blvd., Garden Grove, CA
714-534-4490
Food was amazingly good! Lunch special $5.95, Dinner special $9.95. They deliver within a 3-mile radius. Closed Sunday. Best part was you walk in the door and there's a big sign on the wall saying, "Long Live the King!" It's not by some fantasy buff - it's the King of Thailand. There's a photo of him and his consort.

And if you don't like Thai, there was a *very* good-looking little Mexican joint next to it, and also a Japanese place that was doing such a landmine business on lunchtime sushi delivery that they told us we'd have to wait 1/2 hour for our order. . . . The Fruit Stand down the road (across from the Clarion Hotel) also has genuine local produe. Check out the pears.

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[coppervale.livejournal.com]

That's one of the FIRST places I head to in Anaheim...

Man - wish I was out there NOW...lol

Have a good trip, Ellen!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

You're kidding! It was just total chance that we fetched up there. I am impressed with Fate.

Went there tonight with Cory Doctorow, John Scalzi & family & friends. Everyone loved it.

Wish you were here!

[coppervale.livejournal.com]

Argh. Tell Cory I said hello, will you?

I wish I was there, too. My first convention, ever, was LACON II, the 1984 Worldcon. Right there.

But. BUT - better that I'm finishing the sequel to HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS; and they asked for my HELP on another book that was running late in-house. And those add up to too good an opportunity for a long-term, happy, relationship...

I'll be sitting next to you in about a month or so, anyway!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

At WFC, is that?

[coppervale.livejournal.com]

Books of Wonder.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Ah, right!! Looking forward to that one, yes!

[stardustgirl.livejournal.com]

a little spin in his Miata convertible

Hee! You are a gearhead at heart. :-D California+Convertibles=squee!!!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Who could resist? (Did you see the photo - below- ?)

[casacorona.livejournal.com]

Darn. I wish they weren't closed on Sunday!

[peregrinejohn.livejournal.com]

As I shall be spending 3 days at the House of Mouse with my lovely lady starting Sunday, and as we both have a thing for Thai food, I shall absolutely take that recommendation to heart - and to stomach, which I'm told is on that road.

Southern California has the most astonishing array of 100% authentic national/ethnic specialties that I have ever found anywhere. Comes of being the most ethnically diverse place on the planet, I suppose. Even in our much-maligned Inland Empire (yee har) there are Thai, Mexican (of course), Japanese restaurants and others, run by people who still have their home country's accent. We've got our problems around here, but sub-par Thai food is not among them!

[peregrinejohn.livejournal.com]

By the way, does this mean we might persuade you to come to the Wild West a little more often?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Not hard to persuade - as long as I can justify it as a business trip! D&I will be GoH of Mythcon in Berkeley next August - how's that for ya?

[peregrinejohn.livejournal.com]

Sounds great, actually! Though Berkeley counts in my book more as the Mild West...

And here's one proof of the tale!

[jaidit.livejournal.com]

(http://pics.livejournal.com/jaidit/pic/0001q3d3/g22)
Here we are at the fruit stand.

[calimac.livejournal.com]

We were at that Thai place when you arrived. Pure happenstance: we'd been looking for another restaurant which had closed, and this looked inviting. And it was very good, though rather over-spicy for the four-year-old in our party.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Funny! We ended up there because we, too, were looking for another place . . . clearly it was Meant To Be. Lovely to see you at Worldcon - very much looking forward to Mythcon next year!