Tuna in Curry? (aka, "It sounded like a good idea at the time...")

I was craving seafood on Thursday, so when I met with my ex-coworker, Lulu, for lunch, she suggested Etta's. I thought, why not, since she gets discounts for being an employee of Tom Douglas's and Etta's is supposedly known for their seafood. For appetizers, we started with the mini crabcakes were delicious (albeit too pricey...$13 for three 1.5-inch diameter crabcakes?!), especially with the green cocktail sauce. But the love affair unfortunately ended there.

First off, I was expecting more seafood choices in their already small menu (I thought the damn thing was the wine list at first, and it only opens up to two pages), but that didn't happen. Also, we were in for lunch, where the menu does differ slightly, and, unfortunately for me, has less seafood choices. I should have chosen the Rub With Love King salmon (which is grilled with Tom's famous spice rub), but for some reason I was drawn to the Kaffir lime leaf coconut curry with albacore, bok choy, eggplant, and steamed jasmine rice. Perhaps it was the prospect of seafood in curry? I had had some pretty good seafood curry at Shalimar on the Ave last Friday, and, for no good reason, decided on a repeat performance. Needless to say, the curry lacked a certain punch, and was not worth the money for how little amount of tuna I got (though delicious those 1-inch cubes of delightful fish they were). I kinda wish I got what Lulu ordered, which was the dungeness crab salad, but again, I sill don't think it was worth it's price unless she got a miniature mountain of crab on top of a bed of lettuce.

Anyway, we didn't bother with dessert. After months of sampling anything I could get my hands on at the bakery (especially Tom's Famous Triple Coconut Pie... :P), we figured we might have better luck finding something sweet at Pike's, but then decided we were too full to want anything else.

Didn't do much else afterwards, except more training at Haagen Dazs. Then I was so hungry when I came home that I fried up some eggs and then smothered them in spaghetti sauce and Parmesan cheese... I know, I know, it's weird, but it was good...lacked carbs though (perhaps some rice?). Haha. I ought to improve on that dish a little more.