We went out for dinner to celebrate Ann’s 66th birthday. We chose a restaurant that we had never been to before—A.W. Lin’s. It’s a relative new place in the Promenade, a mall about 2 mile from our house. Let’s call it Asian, Asian fusion, or pan-Asian. The menu offered Chinese, Japanese, and Thai cuisine.

It’s a nice looking place, but we were more interested in the food. Service was prompt and very good, although there weren’t many people there when we arrived.

We had sushi for an appetizer—salmon and eel. Both were good, but I liked the eel much better.

Ann chose Pad See Ew with shrimp; it’s a flat noodle dish. It was tasty. I liked it but probably won’t order it again. There are many more interesting entrées on the menu.

I ordered green curry with chicken. It was not classic Thai green curry. It wasn’t as spicy as Thai food usually is. It didn’t have the traditional Thai taste of fish sauce or coconut milk. It did have a nice curry flavor and the vegetables (lots of asparagus) were tender crisp. I liked it.  I also appreciated that brown rice was a choice.  Healthy whole grain goodness!

We ordered a bottle of the house Chardonnay, which was a Tisdale. The $18.00 price per bottle seems hard to beat. It was just fine.

After one visit, I’ll give it a thumbs up.