Whew!

Yesterday a friend and I decided that we wanted Vietnamese for lunch. Thai restaurants in Englewood are plentiful, but there’s only one place to get Vietnamese food. We walked down Palisade Avenue to the restaurant, but were met with a weird sight when we arrived. The awning still said “Saigon Republic,” but there were sloppily placed construction paper cutouts on the window that spelled out “Asia Time.” Despite the fact that this has got to be the most generic name ever for a restaurant that serves Asian cuisine, we went inside anyway. They’d changed the decor (for the better, actually), and we still weren’t sure whether this place was a new restaurant or simply redecorated, until we received the Asia Time menu with the Thai food and relatively high prices. We thanked the hostess, asked for and received a lunch menu, and went to Kratiem, a tried and true Thai restaurant up the street.

I was really bummed that Saigon R was no more, and checked ye olde Google to find out what was up. And, happy day! it turns out that the restaurant is just moving to Tenafly (as per the owners’ web site). Even though we’ll now have to go to Tenafly to get it, their yummy duck will be worth the trip!

Damn, I just made myself really hungry.