We bought quite a bit of food and the wife complains I need to cook some of it, but she wanted Thai take out yesterday for lunch. I think we'll do that today with a local place we like, Bangkok Thai, the first Thai restaurant in Atlanta they claim, in 1977. Imagine not having a Thai restaurant around.
We have Vietnamese and Mexican places galore up Buford Highway. That is an unusual area as some of the shopping centers (strip malls) have Chinese type symbols and others are called Fiesta American etc. There is a nice Indian strip mall in Decatur, interesting to visit.
I can still recall the very first time I had "Mexican" food. I was in college and this place opened up and none of us had a clue what kind of food they would have, we figured it would be too spicy, so we tried it, I got sick right after that and didn't have it again for years. Ethnic food did not exist in normal places in the country back in the day other than some spaghetti places and a few French places that tended to be expensive.
The bistros in France often have excellent food at reasonable prices but the concept does not seem to translate here very well.
