Last night a friend dropped me off at the SeaTac Doubletree at dinnertime. We had driven over for the Western Regional Conference of the American Culinary Federation, but he had a dinner appointment and I wasn’t on the guest list. On impulse I posted my dining dilemma on Facebook: “Kevin is in Seattle near the airport without a car. Any Seattlites up for dinner?”
I was curious if anyone would respond. Four did, including my cousin Ken who not only responded, but jumped back in his car with his two daughters and picked me.
I didn’t bother to look at the Doubletree room service menu, but I’m almost certain it didn’t list Pho Ga (Vietnamese noodle soup with chicken) or Phad Se-ew. Big money says they didn’t offer a Tapioca Pearl Smoothie in strawberry, and even the fried rice would probably have been at the bleeding edge of hotel restaurant fare.
Happily, all of these were on the menu at Best Pho and Thai in Renton not far from Ken’s office.
So we ordered them.
And got cream puffs on the house for dessert.
Thanks Ken, Marissa, and Allison for my first Facebook-facilitated dining hook-up to date.
