May 3, 2021 Lunch - Sushi Thai Garden Dinner - 30 Lake
Today we drove to Saratoga Springs. I ate a slice of olive oil bread with a dab of honey for breakfast. Luke drove us at 8:15 to Saratoga Springs by 10:00 so he could register his title for the new truck he was buying. Having accomplished that we drove to the seller’s house and picked up the truck.
Luke followed us back to the Inn at Saratoga where we were spending the night. We had a lovely room with a sitting room and a four poster bed.
Suzette had to file an application for an SBA grant at noon, so Luke and I walked to Sushi Thai Garden at 44 Phila St. that had both a Thai menu and a Japanese menu and a full sushi bar.
I decided to order Chirashi, since I have not had it at a restaurant in the last year. It was very similar to Azuma’s menu item; 12 pieces of chef’s choice of raw fish on a bed of sushi rice in a box. Today it was three slices each of white tuna, red snapper, salmon, and Aji tuna plus a stalk of asparagus, two slices of egg omelet, some shredded daikon strips, a dab of salmon roe, some flying fish roe, and two sticks of imitation crab.
Luke ordered one of my favorite Thai dishes, Pad See Eew, which is flat noodles stir fried with onions, broccoli and tofu, at Luke’s request, in a sweet soy sauce.
Luke drank sweetened Thai tea and I drank green tea.
We both enjoyed our meal and when we finished we ordered a pork dumpling appetizer and two unagi nigari that he took to Suzette when he fetched his truck and drove me back to the hotel. We talked as Suzette waited to talk to the SBA in order to finish her application until 3:00, when we had to leave for our soak and massage at Roosevelt Mineral Springs and Spa and said goodbye to Luke and thanked him for his hospitality and congratulated him on his purchase of the truck.
We arrived in time for our 3:30 reservation and soaked in the Roosevelt Spa’s highly mineralized water for twenty minutes and then had a one hour massage.
Each treatment room has a soaking tub and a massage table
The soaking tub. The water is so highly mineralized that it oxidizes upon contact with the air.
After the yoga yesterday and the soak and massage today we were feeling great when we walked out of the Spa.
It was 5:00 when our treatments ended, so after driving through Saratoga State Park for a few minutes we headed to 30 Lake to the restaurant of that name because we noticed on their internet menu that they served oysters. We ordered a 24 pack of sweet petit oysters, which we were told came from Canada, and then steamed clams and washed them down with a bottle of Gruner Vetliner.
When the server placed the two large crushed ice filled platters each with a dozen oysters on the half shell on a rack made to hold the platter on the table I noticed a black spot on Suzette’s lower cheek and told her it might be a tick. She went to the bathroom in a flutter and soon returned to confirm that it was a tick and she had removed it. We hypothesized how it could have become an unwanted guest on her body without any firm conclusion and decided to refer to that part of the meal as “A Dozen Oysters and a Tick.” Here are several pictures of that part of the meal sans tick I think.
Saratoga Springs is a charming town with lots of lovely old houses and lots of trees.
After dinner we drove around town and then to Saratoga Lake to see it and then back to the hotel.
After we settled into the spacious room, Suzette successfully submitted her SBA grant request and I completed three deeds and checked my portfolio that had suffered a minute loss and we then went to bed after a cognac and several chocolate nibs, satisfied that it had been a successful day from start to finish for all of us.
Bon Appetit
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