{"id":23596,"date":"2011-03-11T19:08:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T03:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=11398"},"modified":"2016-09-17T10:30:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T07:30:36","slug":"drum-rong-thai-street-food-eugene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/drum-rong-thai-street-food-eugene\/","title":{"rendered":"Drum Rong Thai Street Food, Eugene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My hosts made a point to show me a Thai food vendor at the busy intersection of 6th and Blair. Housed in a brightly painted trailer, they serve up a varied menu for the fixed price of $6.50.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t had pad thai <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=2116\">since Skagway<\/a> and didn&#8217;t realise how much I was craving it until I had the noodles sitting in front of me at home! Pad thai was a comfort food for me for the better part of a decade. There were two Ottawa restaurants I&#8217;d hit, depending on the neighbourhood I was in, and also a summer street vendor at an outdoor market near where I worked in Gatineau. It&#8217;s not a food for which I have any sort of educated opinion; I just know what I like. It can&#8217;t be too eggy or fishy, and ketchupy (ew, thai restaurant off of Jarvis in Toronto!) is out of the question. I want nice gummy noodles that make me go &#8220;YUM!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s what Drum Rong Thai Street Food in Eugene serves up. I had a most satisfactory mild tofu pad thai with hints of basil and lemon, and a savoury homemade tamarind sauce. If I lived here, I&#8217;d be eating there two or three times a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hosts made a point to show me a Thai food vendor at the busy intersection of 6th and Blair. Housed in a brightly painted trailer, they serve up a varied menu for the fixed price of $6.50. I haven&#8217;t had pad thai since Skagway and didn&#8217;t realise how much I was craving it until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1150,635,1037,5,3,16],"tags":[794],"class_list":["post-23596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eugene","category-north-america","category-oregon","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}