Foodie Fever: Color Me Pink & Chocolate

As I mentioned previously, my best friend Janice took me out on a night on the town a couple of Sundays ago which consisted of dinner, dessert and a fun concert.  Our first stop was dinner at Pink Noodle, located on University Avenue.  Pink Noodle is a cute Hello Kitty inspired cottage style restaurant, featuring Thai cuisine.  As the name suggests, the restaurant and menu items features splashes of pink.

I decided to keep with the color theme and had the Pink Princess cocktail and the Pink Lady noodles.  Janice had the French Kiss cocktail and the Pad Ze-Ew.  The Pad Ze-Ew is a stir-fried noodle dish with chicken, brocoli and carrots.  It reminded me of the Filipino rice noodle dish, Pancit.  The Pink Lady that I had is described as follows:

Imagine, this dish reserved to Thai royalty.  The forever splendid flavor of “Pink Lady”, soft, thin noodle with chicken, tofu, onion lightly pan-fried then lathered with coconut milk.  Accompanied with fresh bean sprouts, scallions for the true taste of Thailand.

All I have to say is that they had me at “pink noodles”!  The portions were perfectly sized and incredibly tasty.  I loved that although my dish was inspired by ladylike royalty, it still had a bit of kick to it.  The coconut milk sauce gave it a curry-like taste that I enjoy so much.

For dessert we had a few options to choose from, but Janice decided introduce me to a place she visited recently.  The Melting Pot is a fun and fabulous fondue restaurant located in the famous Gaslamp District, on 5th & E.  I already love the exterior and interior because it reminded me of a couple of restaurants I went to last year in New York: cozy yet refined.

Each table had a heated surface used to keep the fondue dip of your choice nice and warm for all of the wonderful “dippers”.  We had “The Original” dessert fondue, which is described as a their “signature milk chocolate with a swirl of crunchy peanut butter.”  The dessert dippers consisted of fresh strawberries & bananas, Rice Krispies Treats, marshmallows, pound cake, cheesecake and brownies.

The dish was completely and utterly decadent and delicious.  We shared a “small” version of The Original, which I thought was quite a bit of food for only one person.  Janice said that we should dine with a party of three or more for the large (Regi, I think that means you are coming with us!).  Other than the fact that this was one of the most fantastic desserts I had ever had, we got it for half price because they have happy hour every night from 5pm-7pm.  If the dessert was this good, I can only imagine what all of their other fine fondue dishes must taste like!

And if you remember from my previous post (seen here), this fine evening of sensory experiences ended with dessert for my ears in the form of the sold out Erasure concert at The House of Blues.  I think we will have to repeat this combination of food and fun for the next concert!  Hope you had a good weekend!