it probably says an unfortunate amount, but peanut sauce was one of the driving factors in getting me here.
To whit: when deciding where to send applications for EFL jobs, what better criteria than liking the stateside equivalent of indigenous cuisine? And Thai food was way up on the top, sharing delectability with maybe Japanese, the only trump being the working permit barring German food.
Within Thai food, special emphasis must be given to peanut sauce. Stateside, it was ubiquitous, the spicy, ginger garlic and lime with a creamy peanut paste. Spring rolls, fried spring rolls, fried or grilled shrimp or chicken, with any entree or appetizer and most desserts, a table at a Thai restaurant ended up littered with dishes of peanut sauce.
Lucky, lucky me to go to the source, right?
I have not seen peanut sauce since I got here.
There's massaman curry, a sweet curry that uses peanuts. And a sweet peanut sauce that goes with khanom jeen, rice noodles with many sauces. But I have not seen the ubiquitous and disproportionately significant peanut sauce since I left the states.
Which about figures, doesn't it?
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