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By David & Susan Greenberg
As chow mein is to Chinese cuisine, Pad Thai is to Thai cuisine. And Sab served a jumbo, tasty version stuffed with goodies: shredded carrot, onion, cabbage, scallion, crushed peanuts, sprouts, scrambled egg, and protein of choice, chicken. There was even squeezable fresh lime to help jack its flavor.
Their fried rice (not to be mistaken with their pineapple fried rice), proteined with tofu, ran a parallel track but with rice and was loaded with more or less the same veggie crunchadoodles. It too came with a lime jolt. The rice was cooked perfectly, enough of it to top your tanks for the long haul to your next meal.
Pot stickers are best made with handmade wrappers. They must be pan-fried (thus their name… they tend to stick to the pan). Theirs used pre-made wonton wrappers and were deep-fried. Still, this is truck food, they weren’t competing against the top dumpling fighters in Hong Kong, and all things deep-fried (even shoes) are tasty. We liked them for what they were.
Sab’s bubble Thai tea could be mistaken for those you’ve slurped in bubble tea shops in Taiwan.
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