Silver Spring

[pecunium]

My plan is to leave here on Monday, 19 July, in the early morning bright, and hie me up the road (through the Shenandoah Valley; following the path of "Jackson's Foot Cavalry") up to Silver Spring, Maryland. I'll be staying in Takoma Park (where there is a great music shop ( The House of Musical Traditions), and planning on supper at Mandalay.

It's a Burmese place, so it's new to me.

The fly in the ointment... It's about a ten hour trip for me (about eight on the road, but I have to get gas, eat, etc.). If I don't pack the computer until the morning, I'll be later out the door. I'll look at alternate means of getting it on the bike.

In any case, I won't be on the road earlier than 0700... which means the best I can get in is probably 1630, and 1700 is more like it. I figure I can pretty much be certain of making the restaurant by 1900. I'll shoot for 1830, and try to make an announcement when I get in.

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[harimad.livejournal.com]

BTW I sent you an email - did you get it?

Mandalay in Sliver Spring

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I believe I've eaten there.

B

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I did, and I don't. But thanks.

If you can make it to Mandalay... please do.

[tlatoani.livejournal.com]

Burmese food: I'm a big fan of tea leaf salad, and the tea leaves they use are an unusual ingredient that's pretty hard to find. Never had it at Mandalay, but it's been good at other places.

Re: Mandalay in Sliver Spring

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I believe you have too. I used to live a few blocks from the music store.

K.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Aaaagh argh arrrgh Mandalay is an awesome place and it's very tasty and I can finally get to meet you and there is no way I can make it on Monday.

Still, enjoy.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

(You want to get the ginger salad. Trust me on this.)

[wcg.livejournal.com]

OK, I think I can do that. Won't be able to run home and get Paula, but she doesn't follow your journal anyway. I'll just stay at Goddard until 1800 and then commit myself to the tender mercies of beltway traffic.

See you then!

Re: Mandalay in Sliver Spring

[jonsinger.livejournal.com]

You have, at least once before it moved to its current location and possibly once after the move.

Cheers —
jon

Re: Mandalay in Sliver Spring

[jonsinger.livejournal.com]

Hi!

The music store has moved, but not very far. It's in a house now, a couple hundred feet from where it used to be.

Hugs —
j

[jonsinger.livejournal.com]

Hi.

Just wanted to say that you are absolutely right about Mandalay, and that I like the speedwell you are using as your userpic. (Also that you are correct about the ginger salad. Have you tried the fermented tealeaf salad or the jasmine rice salad?)

Cheers —
jon

[jonsinger.livejournal.com]

Hi.

With any luck at all, I will see you on Monday evening.

Cheers —
jon

Re: Mandalay in Sliver Spring

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

HMT has moved? No one tells me anything anymore.

B

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

When I was in Myanmar almost 20 years ago, Mandalay was the one major city -- if you can use that term -- I skipped.

B

[writingortyping.livejournal.com]

Dang. I have to work Monday night, but yes Mandalay is a great place. My library school buddies regularly meet up there. Enjoy!

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That's my favourite wildflower---it grows here, and it grows where I grew up, ~5000 miles away.

I hadn't tried any of the other salads; now they are both in The List.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Whanh!

So many people who can't quite make it.

[jonsinger.livejournal.com]

IIRC it's Veronica persica, one of several speedwells that you can find around. As you'd expect from the name, a European import, but not exactly objectionable. All of the speedwells seem to be rather cheerful, though I personally find the little species ones prettier than most of the cultivated fancy ones I've seen so far. (There is one tiny thing, I forget the species, that has flowers about 1.5 or 2 mm across. You blink, you've missed them. Can't imagine what pollinates it, unless the pollen carries on the wind. Maybe there's some kind of teeny tiny hover-fly or something...)

I s'pose someone could select V. persica for flower-garden use, as I see quite a bit of variation in color and flower size. There are patches down in DC with flowers almost half an inch across.

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The jasmine rice salad is big and (no surprise) full of rice, so it's almost the equivalent of a main dish, in terms of amount of food. Just so you know.

Best —
jon

Re: Mandalay in Sliver Spring

[jonsinger.livejournal.com]

Ayep, Dave moved it. He explained why, but I've forgotten; that was last year. Anyway, it's a nice house.

Maybe next time y'all are in this area we can cruise by. There are pleasant food places in that neighborhood as well, though nothing truly extreme.

Cheers —
jon

[jonsinger.livejournal.com]

Zow. 20 years ago, IIRC, it was not at all easy to go to Myanmar. I trust, in any case, that you ate interesting things wherever you were.

(Next time you find yourself or yourselves in Philadelphia, you may want to try Rangoon, at 112 North 9th Street. Very pleasant, though there is a lot more Chinese influence showing in the menu than you'll see at Mandalay. OTOH, they have the fresh tofu salad, for which they make the tofu themselves out of tiny channa [or maybe yellow dhal, I forget] instead of soybeans, and it truly rocks. Amazing dressing on it...)

Cheers —
j

[jonsinger.livejournal.com]

I hesitate even to suggest this, but maybe you could stay an extra day, and we could hit some other likely location on Tuesday?

Yo...
jo

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

If I didn't have a hard stop on my visit to New York, I'd have suggested it, or shifting my leaving of Tenn. But ladymondegreen is leaving town on the 29th, and I am greedy of my time with her.

It's tempting, really tempting, but I don't think I can do it.

[twistedchick]

I hope to be there on Monday at Mandalay.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

When I was there 20-mumble years ago, Mandalay was one of the major towns I did not skip. It was great. The food we were served, however, does not encourage me to frequent Burmese restaurants. A'course, the same could be said of Ethiopian but eventually I realized that the basic foodstocks available State-side were better, and I'm glad I did.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I didn't have as much time as I wanted. I spent a couple of days in Pagan, which I found absolutely fantastic.

B

Re: Mandalay in Sliver Spring

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Is the Chesapeake Crab House still there? Google seems not to think so. (It was on Piney Branch Road, if I remember.)

B

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"20 years ago, IIRC, it was not at all easy to go to Myanmar."

It wasn't, but I got there from Thailand. I'm still amazed at my pictures from Pagan.

B

[jonsinger.livejournal.com]

Hope you noticed that he's delayed, and that dinner is tomorrow rather than tonight.

Cheers —
jon

[jonsinger.livejournal.com]

Hope you saw that he's delayed, and that dinner is tomorrow.
jon

[writingortyping.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I did, but tomorrow night I have class! It's a bad week for evening events on my calendar...

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I was delayed by weather, so the dinner plans are moved to Tues., if you can make, please do.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

FYI, I was delayed by weather, so I'll be in on Tues.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Just an FYI, I was delayed by weather, and will be arriving on Tues.

[twistedchick]

I did see that this morning; things got a bit crazy and I wasn't online much. I'll look forward to meeting you tomorrow.