{"id":8,"date":"2007-02-20T13:12:52","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T17:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2007-02-20T13:12:52","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T17:12:52","slug":"back-to-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/20\/back-to-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Arizona."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much new food-wise on this trip &#8211; just two new restaurants that I managed to hit while otherwise stuck in chain-restaurant hell. Line Thai, on Bell Road in Sun City, jumped out at me as a non-chain place, although it&#8217;s not exactly a hole-in-the-wall either, with a big, brightly-lit dining room and a pretty extensive menu.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I went for the pad thai (spelled phat thai on their menu), and also added a &#8220;salad&#8221; the  Thai name of which I can&#8217;t hope to remember. It was actually a dish of finely chopped chicken that had been saut\u00c3\u00a9ed with lemongrass, mint, chili powder (just a little), and scallions, and was served with cilantro and with sliced green cabbage wedges. It was good, not great, with a pleasant but mild flavor that unfortunately didn&#8217;t do enough to disguise the plain taste of the chicken. The pad thai was excellent, with an earthy sauce, shrimp that didn&#8217;t taste like they went from the freezer to the wok (which happens way too often, even in &#8220;good&#8221; Thai joints), and a nice hit of spice from what I presume was either chili powder or a chili sauce.<\/p>\n<p>The big hit of the trip was a relatively new gelateria in Scottsdale called the <a href=http:\/\/www.gelatospot.com\/>Gelato Spot<\/a>, on the corner of 3rd Ave and Scottsdale Rd. This is the newest of the chain&#8217;s four locations, and the gelato was very good. The texture was excellent, smooth with no granularity found in a lot of cheaper gelato places. They do keep it very cold, too much so, so that it was harder than the gelato you&#8217;d get at a really top-notch gelateria or at any gelateria in Italy. The chocolate flavor was superb, not too sweet with a nice cocoa flavor, while the caramel flavor was fair with a weird sour undertone, almost like a cheesecake flavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much new food-wise on this trip &#8211; just two new restaurants that I managed to hit while otherwise stuck in chain-restaurant hell. Line Thai, on Bell Road in Sun City, jumped out at me as a non-chain place, although it&#8217;s not exactly a hole-in-the-wall either, with a big, brightly-lit dining room and a pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}