Today, in the left corner you have Annie Chun’s All Natural Asian Cuisine Noodle Bowl: Pad Thai versus A Taste of Thai: Pad Thai Noodles. As a big fan of Asian cuisine, I love Pad Thai and I can find it in many places like Noodles and Company. My Asian girlfriend, Cynthia, also loves Pad Thai, was the one who introduced me to it. She got the Taste of Thai (ToT) Pad Thai while I got Anni Chun’s Pad Thai.

The ToT comes in a tall box and inside has tall hard noodles that are almost as long as the box. After pouring in the water and sauce, it seemed like would never soften, but after nuking it for 4 minutes or so and adding a little bit more water than required, we finally got the noodles to be soft and edible. Looking down in the box, the noodles didn’t seem to fill even a quarter of the box, and for 4 dollars, I was pretty upset. Then after taking a bite, the flavor was almost nowhere to be tasted. We had put so much water to soften the noodles that it took away from the flavor.

After that brutal upset, we try Annie Chun’s Pad Thai. With soft noodles to start with, I felt more at ease, and after microwaving it, I was pretty excited to try it. With the first taste, I took a pause―whoa, that’s real citrusy/sour-y. Normal Pad Thai comes with lime and peanuts, but the sauce that came with Annie’s Pad Thai had way to much lime and the sauce was too over powering.

If I was stranded on an island and had to choose between the two, Annie Chun’s would win, but not by much. I don’t recommend either, and for 4 dollars each, save your money at the Yum Shoppe, get something better.

Until next time, I’ll see you at the lunch table,

-Phil

I have just stumbled across a facebook event advertising Third Eye Blind as part of SEB’s Quadmania this April 16-18. Tickets are $10 with a UMBC ID and go on sale at the Commons info desk Wednesday March 10 at 12pm. The show will be in the RAC and there appears to be no ticket limit listed on the facebook event.

This seems like it has potential. Personally I feel like this is an act that could appeal to a wide variety of students. Obviously you can never please everyone, but I’m going to go ahead and give SEB some major props for securing Third Eye Blind to come play.

This is (or should be) the link to the facebook event.

So what are everyone’s thoughts on Third Eye Blind?