Pho, a Vietnamese soup dish commonly sold in Asian restaurants, will also be on the menu - but only beef pho and only on weekends, at least initially. "We want to choose our ingredients ourselves," Toumoua added. He added that the restaurant will also shop for ingredients like vegetables from local farmers markets. "For example, we roll our own eggs, and that plays a big part in the taste and freshness." "We are extremely excited to bring the realness back to restaurant dining," he said. There will also be appetizers, such as egg rolls, spring rolls and fried calamari that Toumoua said will not be made to order. "It's for spice lovers and seafood lovers," said Toumoua. Signature Laotian menu items will range in heat levels, like the jungle fish curry. Some of the dishes that will be on the menu include traditional Thai favorites like pineapple fried rice, basil fried rice, noodle dishes and curry dishes, along with drunken noodles with chicken and pad thai, a popular stir-fried rice noodle dish. Though similar in many ways, Thai and Laotian food differ in how vegetables, herbs and spices are used during the cooking and marinating processes. "We like the area and we feel like there aren't too many Thai and Lao restaurants anywhere in Buford and Hall County," he said. Toumoua believes the Laotian dining option that Sally's Kitchen offers is something new for the area. The couple decided to open the restaurant, their first, despite there being another Thai restaurant, Golden Phoenix, which also serves Chinese food, half a mile away. "We have been working on this site since December." "We really want to try to get it open soon," he said. The Thaos are planning to have Sally's Kitchen up and running by early June, according to Toumoua. Located inside the Friendship Village shopping center next to Flow Factory Barber Shop and La Cazuela, the restaurant will be able to accommodate 40 dine-in customers. "My wife has been cooking since she was a little girl," Toumoua said. Thao's business partner is his wife, Sally, the restaurant's head chef and namesake. Next time we want Asian food in the Rogue Valley I guess it will be back to the well-known Asian fast food place.Thao says Sally's Kitchen is a "startup," but will use family recipes and classic cultural dishes to differentiate its menu from other Asian-inspired restaurants in the county. Husband had to open a can of soup instead and I ate toast. That's $24 (including a $3 tip) that ended up in our garbage. Both of ours were unappetizing and unappealing. Very little sauce, no flavor, no spice (he'd ordered it "medium"). He ate one piece and proclaimed it inedible. I ate a couple more pieces, hoping it would improve. And there were a few sesames sprinkled on it. I took a bite and it tasted exactly like an overly fried chicken nugget with very thick bit of ketchup mixed with maybe something else. My husband's first question as spooning it out of the box was "Where's the sauce?" That's what I asked. ![]() They actually looked surprisingly the same - like severely over-fried chicken nuggets with a bit of a mix of barbecue and ketchup sauce. Well, they didn't look like what we're used to for these meals, but maybe just different recipes. Got home with it and opened up the boxes. Husband ordered General Tso's Chicken and I ordered Sesame Chicken - to go. But I'd started to read some neighbors talking about this place so we decided to give it a try tonight when. We'd heard that there isn't any good Asian food in the Rogue Valley, the best you can do is the well-known Asian fast-food chain.
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