A big UP! to our first contributor from outside the Number 22 and a beer compound, Claus Haslauer. (Who’s completely un-foodie, but nonetheless admirable website, planetwater.org, can be found here.) Thanks, Claus. I hope you are the first of many and look foward to more contributions in the near future. You have to work on the quality of the photography though. It’s just a little to good!
photo: Claus Haslauer
Goi – Thai Restaurant
Stuttgarter Str. 35
70469 Stuttgart Feuerbach
phone: +49 – 711 – 260000
Date eaten: 21-February-2009, ~6:30pm
Price: 6.5 Euros.
Number 22 is listed under “baked dishes (a little spicy)”. It is done “Shezuan Style with vegetables”. For the type of protein that goes with it you have the choice between pork, chicken, duck, fish, and calamari. There is a small list of beers to choose, I went with a Singha 0.33 bottle, for 2.5 Euros. I could have gotten a Chinese beer, a German wheat beer or a German lager as well.
My order turned out to be a plate full with delicious food: rice, the vegetables with the sauce, and the baked calamari. Now, the menu says “baked”, however, I would say those calamari were battered and fried. For me that didn’t turn things into a bad direction. Those were really good fried calamari. If the chef wanted to improve anything: serve them a bit warmer, and somehow get rid of excess oil. The two other parts of the dish were the vegetables and the sauce. The vegetables consisted mainly of cabbage, bamboo, soy sprouts, peppers, and green onions. The sauce I liked even better than the calamari! Those vegetables were submersed in the sauce, the “Shezuan sauce”, which I never had before. It reminded me of a “sweet-sour sauce”, but more spicy. It went very well with the fried calamari. There’s not much to say about the beer and the rice. They were good. To conclude, I really liked the dish! As an extra: it was a lot!
“The Goi” is one of my most frequently visited restaurants. From the restaurants I know, it offers the best bang for the buck in the Stuttgart area for Asian-/Thai- food. The dishes are freshly prepared in a kitchen into which the entire restaurant can look through a huge glass facade which I like for that kind of restaurant. The seating possibilities are not endless, so I would recommend to make a reservation during peak hours during lunch and dinner. The restaurant is easily reachable with a short walk from the Feuerbach train station. My girlfriend has one dish that she always has when she eats there (number 31, Thai wok, red curry, crabs), I have been experimenting a little bit in the past, but have usually settled with one dish as well (number 33, Thai wok, peanut sauce, pork). So the imposed variety by ordering number 22 was welcome for me, to break out from the normal! 
I give the shezuan style baked calamari 8 out of 10 possible stars.
Und ich dachte sofort an Urlaub in Asien. Stuttgart! Ich fasse es nicht!!
Here a short translation of the preceding comment for the german-impaired:
“I immediately thought of a vacation in Asia. Stuttgart! I can’t believe it!”
Got it! I’ll do my very best to write in English from now on
I am sitting in asiea and am thinking,
hmhmh how can you it a dish that is from China, in a Thia restaurant????? it should be called Asian Restaurant.
and then the look of it just looks sooooo wrong.
have you ever bean in China???????
the german asien restaurants really try hard to make it taste and look asien but……. ! NO!
Each time when I am back in Germany I try to enjoy food from Europe because that is the reall food. If you want any asien food ask your asien friends. they would know which restaurant is real!!!!!
Birgit, were you having a bad day?
As you might have been able to tell, by the extremely large type at the top of this page perhaps, this is NOT a blog that ponders the inexplicable shortcomings of Asian restaurants outside of Asia.
If say in Belgrade, a Thai restaurant serves a Chinese dish on bavarian tableware and calls it Indian, hey you can’t blame us. But the friends and proprietor of this site will eat it nevertheless, as long as it’s the number 22.
Thanks for reading, though.
Maybe you could send us a real Asian 22 from Asia just so we know what you mean.