Saturday dinner

I know it's been a while since I last posted, and I'm sorry. I'll try to be better about posting in the future.

So, my mom, step-father and I went to this restaurant called Pranna. It's sort of fusion-ish, but it mostly includes dishes from southeast Asia. We decided to eat family style, that is, everybody shares all the food ordered. We started out with a bunch of satays: chicken, shrimp, vegetable, and beef, with lime mint, peanut, sour mandarin galangal, and lemongrass sauces. The satays were extremely disappointing. They were bland and ordinary; no thought appeared to have gone into their creation. Next, we ordered a bunch of "small bites". We got Penang chicken spring rolls, a lobster slider, and mushroom stuffed tofu. The spring rolls and tofu was average, and the lobster slider was overly ambitious and ended up being passed around from person to person looking for a final resting place. As main courses, we ordered braised Malaysian goat and Vietnamese clay pot chicken. The goat and chicken were both extremely tender. I wish they had given us a bit more goat meat, rather than all the fat and bones, but otherwise it was succulent and we enjoyed it very much. The clay pot chicken was excellent. The chicken was marinated very thoroughly in a very flavorful sauce, and it was probably my favorite dish of the whole night. For dessert, we had the Pranna bakery for the table. It came with chocolate cake, banana bread, peanut butter cookies, brownies, chocolate chip cookies, biscotti, and chocolate, caramel and peanut butter dippings. The confections were obviously preheated with the exception of the brownie, which was stone cold. Overall, the meal was rather disappointing and I would not recommend this restaurant.

Note: If you wish to view the menu on the restaurant's website, just click the title of this post. Thanks for reading!