yen ta fo
yen ta fo
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Yen ta fo, a Thai soup available in many Los Angeles and San Francisco Thai restaurants is strangely unavailable in Portland. It is a red spicy mixed seafood soup with noodles, spinach or morning glory, and often topped with a wonton. A couple years ago I requested the soup at Thai Restaurants across Portland with no luck. Proprieters told me - "no white people like that soup" (whispered), or "too difficult to make", or simply looked at me quizically. Its a nice soup, and the difficulty in finding it makes it kind of more delicious when it is available. After months of trying different Thai restaurants I tried Pad Thai Kitchen (2309 SE Belmont St Portland). The charismatic hostess here was totally tickled that I requested the soup. The first time I asked she told me she could make it but that I should come back at a less busy time because it takes up some time in the kitchen to make. I go back once every month or too to request Yen Ta Fo soup. I hope other people do too. Pad Thai Kitchen serves their Yen Ta Fo with a generous assortment of squid, fish balls, prawns, and large scallops. Since it is not a regular menu item they don't always have wontons or morning glory and often substitute spinach. Most of the dishes at the Pad Thai Kithen are quite good, the pad thai might be my favorite in Portland.
posted by Bernard Stone at 9:49 PM
3 Comments:
Let's hear it for the Yen Ta Foh underground. I have met the same blank looks asking for this favorite soup in Tacoma and Seattle. I will make it at home instead.
One Thai on NE Alberta in Portland has Yen Ta Fo. They don't serve it on a bed of greens but if you ask in advance they'll put it on spinach. In Seattle, there used to be a place on 1st and John that had it and there's a Super Noodle place on 65th off Roosevelt that has it but they call it some 'new' name so you have to ask. I LOVE Yen Ta Fo. I ask at every restaurant hoping that someday.....
Hi,
So glad that you are fan of Thai food. I'm Thai student at PSU, the nearest Thai restaurant named " Bann Thai at Sw Broadway, between the bloack of sw college and sw jackson.
Hope you have a good Yen ta Fo
May
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