The countdown to our ex-expat status is now two months. This year has flown by faster than I ever thought possible. We will be making our way back to the US in August to settle back into Boston for a little while. In the meantime, this is my new sporadic mini-series of the little things I will miss about Australia.
The Sweat Sock
As mentioned before, Australia, Melbourne in particular, is a delicious cultural food mecca. Jaime and I were lucky enough to live right down the street from the BEST Pud (pad) Thai I have ever had. Ying Thai 2 is a 100% Thai run establishment that is always busy and even missed on Mondays when it is closed. We love it! The pad thai is always delicious, the sticky rice is warm and sticky, and everything else we have tried is good too.All of our visitors have eaten the pad thai from Ying Thai 2 and all have given rave reviews, even those who don’t really like pad thai went back for seconds! However, all of our visitors have only eaten Ying Thai 2 outside on the sidewalk tables or at home as take away. No one has ever eaten inside except us. This is due to the warmth of the kitchen heating up the small restaurant and its distinct spices resulting in a very distinct smell, I whispered to Jaime, “This place smells like a sweat sock!” Its not a pungent sweat sock, more like a subtle sweat sock, but sweat sock it is. We don’t let this deter us since we know the food is so good and the place is always busy and I have found subtleties of the smell in other Thai restaurants and so the aroma must be part of the ethnicity.
And so we love it and we will definitely miss the nights that Jaime asks me what we should have for dinner and I promptly reply “Sweat Sock!” and he always agrees.
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