Task 30 – Som Siam East, Guilford, CT

(30) Eat in 10 New Restaurants (11/20)

Restaurant: Som Siam East

Rating: 3-Stars

Som Siam East is a hidden jewel in the heart of the quaint sea side town of Guilford, CT. They have a sister location in Old Saybrook, CT. It can be found just off the beaten path from the town green down a little alley way along the main road.

The interior is intimate and fills the interior of a small house. It has maybe 8 tables total and is surprisingly quiet.  The reasonably inexpensive lunch specials a soup or salad and a small desert with each entrée.

They have the best Thai iced tea. It was just the right amount of condensed milk to compliment the flavorful Thai tea & perfect on a hot summer day after a long walk around the town green.

I selected the peanut salad and Dan selected the rice noodle soup to start. The salad was fresh and tasty and just the right size. The soup was flavorful and surprisingly packed with ingredients.

For my entrée I selected the Pad See-Ew (Pan fried flat rice noodles in a sweet soy sauce with egg, broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, and your choice of meat).  My lunch partner selected the Red Curry (Red Curry Spices, cooked in a coconut milk with bamboo shoot, carrots, pineapple, fresh zucchini and basil, lime leaves, and again your choice of meat). We both opted for the chicken but had the options of vegetable, tofu, beef, chicken, pork, shrimp, duck, or seafood/fish.

The Pad See-Ew was very similar to Pad Thai except with larger flat rice noodles and packed with more vegetable varieties. The sauce was flavorful and light compared to the heavier noodles. Dan’s Red Curryt was just spicy enough to enjoy without sending you racing to the water. It was paired with white sticky rice and served separately to prevent it from becoming soggy. We both enjoyed our entrées and will definitely be back.

Our desert was a tapioca pudding. It wasn’t like any I had had before it was not creamy like traditional tapioca. It was also mixed with corn which created a sweet and salty flavor that was nice. Definitely was different. I would have liked mango in place of the corn in the tapioca.