{"id":8,"date":"2002-11-15T11:23:20","date_gmt":"2002-11-15T17:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2002-11-15T11:23:20","modified_gmt":"2002-11-15T17:23:20","slug":"eating-out-is-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2002\/11\/eating-out-is-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Out is Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My passion for dining out has become legendary.  I keep meaning to put together a restaurant guide, especially now since Zagat has decided to stop publishing<br \/>\ntheir Houston version (their reviews were off the mark as often as not, but they did have name recognition). The Thursday Night Dining Club tried a few years<br \/>\nback to <A HREF=\"..\/food\/\">post our reviews online<\/A>, but, sadly, we didn&#8217;t persist in our efforts, even though they were favorably received. We may revive the<br \/>\nproject in the future, but for now I shall try to jot down a few notes about the new places I try.<\/p>\n<p>After working at a client&#8217;s business yesterday for 6 hours (4.5 hours longer than planned, and no lunch, with just an hour before call at Opera in the Height). I<br \/>\ntook my papers and stopped at Vung Thai Cafe (1714 West Loop N, (713) 868-3551), a little Thai place in a strip center I had seen when I had gone through the<br \/>\nadjacent Whataburger the previous Saturday. Had the Thom Ka Gai (coconut-milk-based chicken soup &#8211; very good flavor, just the right level of spiceiness, lots of<br \/>\nchicken and mushrooms), Ginger Chicken (also nice), and Thai Iced Tea (a cousin of Vietnamese Iced Coffee).  A great meal on a day I hadn&#8217;t eaten at all, and for<br \/>\n$13 very fairly priced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My passion for dining out has become legendary. I keep meaning to put together a restaurant guide, especially now since Zagat has decided to stop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}