Saturday night Luigi and I met up with our dear friend Dee Dee in Pasadena for our 'needs-to-be-more-often' get together for dinner and a movie. (The pic above was taken with Dee Dee's Zire Palm Pilot!)

Dee Dee took us to SONG, an incredible Thai place on Fair Oaks in Pasadena. There are actually 2 restaurants, one next to the other and owned by the same people. One is called Saladang which is more of an American taste Thai place, whereas the other restaurant serves more traditional Thai dishes and is called Saladang Song or SONG.

We sat in a large outdoor patio heat-lamped area in front of the main restaurant. The walls surrounding the patio are very tall and consist of intricate lattice metal designs in between solid walls. There is a little stream that encircles the patio on three sides.

Our server came over, a very pretty young Thai woman(actually they were all very attractive) who started telling us about all the specials they had that evening. The list was quite long and she was actually standing there a full couple of minutes. I could not understand her accent very well and only heard a couple of things like 'red curry' and sweet sour something catfish.

After numerous questions we finally settled on the sweet and sour catfish for hors d'ouerves and the Yum Eggplant (absolutely delicious), you have to try this one. The Yum Nua (grilled beef salad) and Kao ga-pao, a chicken dish. All of it was way off the map, a diners delight......veerrry scrumptious!

We had a achoice as to the aggresiveness of the spices, so we ordered mild. In a Thai restaurant 'Mild' is usually somwhat hot. The catfish came and went in a flash. It was barely presented to us before the plate was cleaned off. When they brought the other two entrees, we started in again with great relish. Surprise! They had forgotton to put the order in for Mild and I just about burned my mouth out. They were very nice about it and came to remove those two dishes and replaced them quickly. Actually it was still very tasty without the heavy spicyness. The only thing that should have remained spicy, though, was the beef...it tasted better spicy. But the whole dinner was a great experience and I am so glad Dee Dee thought to bring us there.

We talked so much though, it was going on 9:00 so that most of the movies had already started. So we opted, instead, for a coffee at Starbuck's and picked up a couple of videos at Hollywood Video across the way.

We settled finally on "Runaway Jury". Dee Dee had already seen it but didn't mind seeing it again, as Luigi and I hadn't seen it yet.

Thanks Dee Dee! We had a super time and a great frolic and giggling on our Bush Bashing free-for-all at the table.............nah we weren't THAT bad. ( I've heard worse on other blogs about Liberal bashing.)

Anyway speaking of food I took 'an Invisible Quiz'. You can see the resutls below...

Happy Eating..........darn, I forgot to tell you that I put on 3 pounds!! Yuk. Is it Atkins after all?....................