For my cultural experience I went to the Baytown Sandwich and Noodle House with my dad, which was my first time that I can recall of trying Thai food. From the outside of the restaurant it doesn’t look like it is going to be very good, and it was not very busy at all, although we did get there around 11. Going into the restaurant I was expecting it to be a lot like Japanese food just from the smell and the looks of the pictures on the walls. When looking through the menu I quickly realized it wasn’t going to be exactly like Japanese food, but they do tend to use lots of noodles or rice in their dishes kind of like at a Japanese restaurant.

Once we got there and the waitress took our order she informed us that they made their eggrolls homemade, so of course we had to try them out. In my mind I was thinking about the eggrolls that you would get at a Chinese or Japanese restaurant, which are completely wrapped in a crispy deep fried shell, and filled with vegetables or meat depending on what kind you get. These eggrolls were not nearly as crispy, and the inside was seen from both ends. They also had a very different taste than ones I have had in the past, and came with their own dipping sauce. They were very tasty to me, and much lighter and less filling that Japanese eggrolls.

After enjoying the mouth-watering eggrolls, I patiently waited on my main course to come out. I ordered a noodle dish that had chicken, shrimp, and been all mixed in with it. Finally, my dish came out and as soon as the waitress put it down in front of me I almost began to salivate from the wonderful smell. The noodles were covered in parsley, and what I believe were leaks, which did not really grab my attention because I am not a huge fan of either of them. Once I carefully moved some of the leaks and parsley out of the way, I began to enjoy this flavorful dish. One of the best parts about it was the delicious sautéed mushroom’s that were mixed in as well. The noodles had a very wet texture but were just filled with flavor and were very good. The sauce that was on the dish kind of reminded me of a teriyaki sauce that we get at Japanese places. The shrimp still had tails on them so that part got a little messy, but as a whole the dish was pretty tasty, and I would not mind going back to eat there sometime in the future.