We’ve been to this restaurant several times in the last three years and the food is always great.

But, it’s so dark in there I can’t see anything.  I couldn’t even read the menu without using the flashlight app on my cell phone.

The prices are alright, you should expect to pay more to eat at a popular restaurant in NYC but it’s on the upper end of reasonable.

I had salmon and eggplant in a green curry.  The flavor and texture were amazing.  I am a big fan of texture as part of the eating experience.  The salmon was seared on one side, which provided a nice crunch to the dish.  The salmon meat was not over cooked, it was very tender and melted in my mouth.  This coupled with the eggplant being firm made the food fun to chew.

You get the crunch of the seared salmon, the firmness of the eggplant that makes you chew for a longer time and the melting salmon meat that slides down as you chew the eggplant (at least that’s how I remember it and I wasn’t drunk).  This is how I like to eat.

My wife had the ginger fried rice.  This dish was a standard fried rice, only better, with a fried egg sunny side up (or over easy, I forget) on top with a large portion of fried crunchy ginger flakes.  The fried egg was runny, you break it open and mix the yolk with the rice and ginger flakes.  Again, what makes it a great dish for me is not only the flavor, which was better than average, but the mixture of textures.

If you are in NYC, specifically in the Village, I would recommend eating at Spice Market.