What I Ate: January 6, 2010 (One Market, Plearn Thai Palace)

Lunch: Fanpop ate out as a group at One Market (1 Market Street, San Francisco, CA‎ - (415) 777-5577‎) for our 2009 holiday lunch. The food was excellent and the prices great for the quality. The Market Lunch is a special they run that lets you get any starter and any entree for $28. Cliff got a couple of vegetarian entrees while Dave, Papa, and I each got the Market Lunch with a different appetizer which we split.

Grilled Octopus - tender and strongly flavored - worked wonderfully with the grainy edamame puree

Oysters on the Half Shell - sweet and briney, tasted like the ocean

Dungeness Crab Cakes - pure fresh crab delight

For my entree, I selected the Grilled Trout.

I got Roasted Brussel Sprouts with Apple Wood Bacon for my side dish.

I also had a Huckleberry Lemonade which was served as a lemon sorbet in a huckleberry syrup.

Dinner: I headed over to Walnut Creek and had dinner with my friends Dave and Rachel at Plearn Thai Palace (1510 North Main Street, Walnut Creek, CA‎ - (925) 937-7999‎).

We split three dishes - all of which were fairly well prepared:

Ma-Kuer-Pad Eggplant pan fried with pork, sweet basil, tomato, onion, zucchini, bell pepper, green chili and special Thai seasonings

Pumpkin Curry Chicken simmered in red curry with coconut milk, bell peppers, pumpkin and Thai sweet basil

Pat si iu Fried rice-noodles broccoli and egg with bean curd

The Ma Kuer Pad was my favorite of the three dishes we had.