asian food

last night we had to go to the airport to pick up some clients who had bought a home here. the closing was a month ago, but they could only get down here now. as we were heading through sosua anyway on our way to the airport, we decided to try out a restaurant, asiatico, that i had heard about. it is located in eddy's sports bar and is run by a chef, dori, whom we had met several months ago at taco tuesday. the menu has thai and japanese items.

the food was very good, and importantly, served appropriately spicy. i had red curry chicken, and v had a japanese noodle dish called yaki-soba. this food was definitely a few steps up from thai night at lax, which until now had been the only place where we had had thai. wonder if they are open for lunch? when we have shifts in sosua, i would grab lunch there.

i asked dori if it was hard to find the ingredients to make this kind of food here. he said no and that in fact many of the ingredients are actually even grown on the island - things like ginger, lemongrass. i was a bit amazed by this, but then again, this is a very fertile country. the DR certainly does not lack good farming conditions and plenty of water. the latter is certainly a difference i have noted here and from when i lived on another island - bermuda - for a summer. drinking water was like gold in bermuda where they do not have fresh water readily available in the forms of lakes, rivers, springs, etc. and must rely on rain caught off their rooftops.

anyway, back to asiatico. we were the only people eating there. i hope for longevity sake of this restaurant, this was only because either we were there early (6:30ish) or it was a monday night. as it is within eddy's sport's bar, the decor is nothing fancy. what is here? this place is about food not so much about atmosphere. if we wanna watch the football world cup this summer, i think eddy's would be the place. they even have some pool tables there - can't remember the last time i played pool.

there's another place in sosua, actually in la mulata, that serves thai food, which i would like to try sometime. la mulata is up in the hills. i think the restaurant is on the property of someone's home up there, and thus is in a location that you would never expect a restaurant. i don't think zoning here really exists or is enforced. this place sounds like a thai blue moon (i.e., the indian restaurant near jamao)....asian food is not very prevalent here, so you need to seek it out.