Our friend had just flown in from Japan and she was craving either Mexican food or Thai food. We went to a Thai restaurant in Georgetown, where the river was high after a month of rain and the water was bobbing a mere foot or so down from the dock. The Georgetown waterfront and its outdoor seafood restaurants and bros and girls has survived new administrations, urban redevelopment, and new styles, technologies, and trends, without changing at all in its outward appearance from when I first saw it 16 years ago. The restaurant, Bangkok Joe’s, has no chefs with names you’d recognize, and you couldn’t find it on any top 10 lists, but I can say it has quite good food. Happily, the people on Yelp seem to agree. It appears the restaurant just reopened after a failed experiment with French-Asian fusion. I had starchy vegetable dumplings and a salmon in curry sauce.

(Photo: C&O Canal, Georgetown.)

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