Number 22 #4

Number 22 and a beer is catching on, I am happy to proclaim! Close to two thousand visitors in the first week is, in my small blog world, quite a number. Many thanks to all those linking the site!

This Number 22 and a beer comes to us from Nadine Meisinger, of Darmstadt, Germany. Her post is our first non-asian 22, and proof that even in a city named after intestines, a good meal is not that hard to come by. Her professional website can be found here.

For lovers of Persian cuisine Haroun’s seems to be a good bet. (Why do the never call it Iranian food?)

photo :nadine meisinger

Haroun´s”
Arabic and Persian Restaurant
Friedensplatz 6
64293 Darmstadt
Germany
phone: 06151/23487
http://www.harouns.de/

Date eaten: 23. February 2009
Price: 6,90 Euros

This Number 22 is a very savoury, crispy baked, still warm Pide (pita bread) with a delicious and spicy topping of hash, egg, onions, tomatos and parsley. Along with a nice beer brewed from wheat from the local Darmstaedter Brewery. From my description you can already guess: I enjoyed my Number 22 very much!

Here in Darmstadt, the “Haroun´s” is one of my favourite restaurants. It´s very tiny (they have only about 20 seats) and it is recommended that you arrange a table in advance. Haroun Ismael, the owner, will make you feel at home instantly, he´s a very warm and hearty person. The food at Haroun´s is absolutely gorgeous, they offer a big variety of dishes, every one of them a delight for the taste buds. The Falafel is a treat, just like the Hummus! My absolute favourite is Fatteh with Chicken: Roasted pieces of chicken breast on pita bread, with rice, and a generous portion of garlic/mint yoghurt topping. Oh, and if you´re there: Try the Lebanese wine – it´s excellent.

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Number 22 #3

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


http://www.goi.de/



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.




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