As I said in my last post, we were recently on vacation and for most of our 9 days off we stayed in the Buffalo area. We are *supposed* to be saving up for our big trip in the fall – IRELAND!! I have been to England several times, but never to Ireland, and this will be J’s first trip ever overseas!

I know what you must be thinking: “If it rains during every vacation that you take, why on Earth would you choose to go to someplace where you KNOW it’ll rain every day?!” This is why: In Europe I have amazingly good luck with the weather. Over 4 trips to England, I’ve spent about a month in the London area, and I can only remember 4 days where it rained, and when it did, it didn’t rain all day. That’s less rain than our trip TO THE DESERT 2 years ago, which was only a week long! In my other trips to the European main land, there was one day where it snowed a few flakes in Brussels, and one day it rained in Kiev, and that’s it! So I’m confident we are going to have amazing weather, and our road trips to the Giant’s Causeway and Cliffs of Moher will be full of spectacular lighting for photos, and we won’t be miserable. However, I’m not confident enough to leave the umbrella at home. 🙂

Anyway! We started our stay-cation with dinner at Taste of Siam. I was in the mood for Thai food, and they offer some other stir fry dishes that appealed to J, since he’s not a huge Thai fan, so it seemed like a good choice. I hadn’t been there before, but their social media photos had been looking delicious so I wanted to try a new place. I wasn’t expecting a bloody mary to be on the menu, but they had a series of Sake cocktails, including the Muay Thai Kick.

Served in a Tom Collins glass, this cocktail, along with their others, was $5!!!! Score! I’ve gotten so used to paying $10+ for a bloody that this was super refreshing. Bartender Pheany prepared it with Sake, tomato juice, sriracha, Worcestershire, and lemon juice and it was sweet and wine like, from the Sake. Garnished with a salt and cayenne pepper rim, with a Thai pepper floating on top, it was super, super spicy.

It was tasty but almost too sweet from the Sake. It could stand to be cut with something, but since I’m no cook/bartender I’m not sure what – fish sauce? Like Saigon Bangkok used in theirs, maybe? Some people might like the sweet taste, and I wouldn’t mind it, if it just hadn’t been so much. That said, I would definitely drink it again, especially for $5! Plus, the meal was fantastic and just what I wanted.