After grocery shopping yesterday, my mom and I grabbed dinner at Bangkok Golden, a Thai restaurant near our house and a place where I've tried many things on the menu. The family owned restaurant will celebrate their decade anniversary next year and have opened two other branches in the DC metro area recently. As far as food, they have the requisite pad thai and curries as well as an extremely delicious fried whole flounder. (Sushi and salmon aside, I'm not much of a fish eater. But I do love that dish.) It is served with a choice of three sauces. I recommend the ginger sauce (don't usually like ginger either) with pork and shrimp.
That being said, we got two other items because the flounder requires at least four diners. The first was crispy duck with basil, which is my other favorite item on their menu. The duck is actually roast and then wrapped in a crisp batter and served with a very light sauce, thin slices of hot pepper, and beyond-wilted basil leaves somehow dried to be as fragile as possible without actually breaking. Since protein begs carbs, we also got another specialty of theirs, a tropical fried rice with chicken, shrimp, pineapple, egg, onion, tomato, curry and a topping of finely shredded dried pork. It's a whole lot of color and a whole lot of taste but surprisingly not overkill though it may sound it.
That being said, we got two other items because the flounder requires at least four diners. The first was crispy duck with basil, which is my other favorite item on their menu. The duck is actually roast and then wrapped in a crisp batter and served with a very light sauce, thin slices of hot pepper, and beyond-wilted basil leaves somehow dried to be as fragile as possible without actually breaking. Since protein begs carbs, we also got another specialty of theirs, a tropical fried rice with chicken, shrimp, pineapple, egg, onion, tomato, curry and a topping of finely shredded dried pork. It's a whole lot of color and a whole lot of taste but surprisingly not overkill though it may sound it.
9503 Livingston Road
Fort Washington, MD 20744
301.248.8810
http://www.bangkokgoldenrestaurant.com
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