Modern Thai

Here's a belated photo from a few weeks ago at Modern Thai on Polk. I stopped and looked in because the restaurant always looks like a lovely oasis on what's not a great block. I've always wondered if it's any good, and the sign for $6.50 lunch specials finally drew me in.

Pretty darned good! If you like your pad thai with an extra tanginess to take the edge off the sugar, this is the place for you. The noodles were cooked perfectly so they were loose and amply sauced, not goopy or dry. The shrimp, all five of them, were big and plump. The vegetables were crisp. But, most impressively, the tofu tasted fresh! Four out of five times that I eat pad thai I can tell that the tofu is about 24 hours from going bad and they're trying to hide it with pad thai sauce. The tofu at Modern Thai had a sweet freshness about it that was very refreshing.

Shamless plug of the day: Kiehl's Over-Night Biological Peel. I don't think I'm ready to go out and blow $42 on it, but I got a free sample the other day and finally tried it. My skin's been very dry because I'm not used to all the wind up here. I left the peel on overnight and my skin feels very dewy this morning. The results probably won't last long, but it's nice not to feel tight and crackly. Today I'm going to go buy $15 CeraVe like my dermatologist suggests.