Chicken Satay, a $5 weekday-only lunch special. Holla! (Do people still use that word? Wait, don’t bother to respond if your answer will be no.)

Tender pieces of grilled chicken…

in a sweet peanut sauce. Yum!

Green Curry, my favorite kind of curry.

Also $5, baby, and comprising chicken, eggplant, potatoes, bamboo shoots, and Thai basil.

This spicy lunch special isn’t particularly photogenic, but boy was it a tasty mess. I liked the dish—the sauce especially—so much that I raved about it to an acquaintance I bumped into after leaving the restaurant. Sure, I hadn’t seen this person in many months and in hindsight it was a bit of an awkward action on my part, but then I remembered that I’m a freak. That excuses a lot of things.

Roti, a panfried flatbread.

In case you’re curious, an order of this was $2.

Besides being flaky…

and browned on the outside…

the roti oozed sweetened condensed milk between its layers.  Chocolate, bananas, cheese, or scrambled eggs were additional filling choices.

As hard as I tried to eat three pieces of it on the insistence of my dining companion, I couldn’t because I was on the verge of sweet-overload.

But there’s always next time, and the time after that, and…

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