TOWANDA!

remember that from fried green tomatoes?! i loved, loved that movie. incidentally i also really like fried green tomatoes. remember when kathy bates (before she was out) ran into a car and said, "Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance." kay even as a young girl i knew she was awesome. also mary-louise parker before she was a dope dealer and mary stuart masterson (also pre-out) and the lovely jessica tandy before she was well...dead. sigh. great movie. especially for little feminists like myself, i was only like 12 when i saw that i think.

anyway....back to food! i was reminded of TOWANDA! when i recently went to Tawanna Thai.
very unsuspecting little thai restaurant in crappy strip mall, mid-wilshire. very, very surprising. first of all it's so cute inside, not cute like, aw...sweet baby cute, like woa! where are we- almost like a club. and can we say lunch special?! yes, yes we can. and we shall. and we shall say that it is $7.95. not bad l.a. not bad. so i had yellow curry with chicken, came with a nice salad and yummy yummerson veggie gyoza. a very delicious meal all in all and the price was so, so right. the winner though was one of my lunch companions. she ordered wonton and noodles with crab. it was these egg noodles (thin one's not the weird big, flat, slimey noodles that i hate) and they were crispy, which is even better. then there were generous wontons (or meat sacks if we want to get technical and gross, which i like to do), bean sprouts, crushed peanuts, lime and last but certainly not least- crab. and i waited to mention the crab last in this crab dish because we are talking real crab people. like in the shell, fresh and delicious. i think her meal was like a whole whopping dollar more. my friends are smart. and the service during very busy lunch hour was good, fast and well...cute. nice job TAWANNA!