One thing that frustrates me about many ethnic restaurants is that the kiddie menus are pathetic. Usually, the menus only contain bland foods such as hot dogs, grilled cheese and hamburgers. Sure, my 2 year old likes cheeseburgers and hot dogs, but he also likes ethnic food – he has been eating curry since he was 11 months old. For his first birthday, we took him to a Middle Eastern restaurant because at the time, chicken shwarmah was one of his favorite dishes. We even stuck a candle in his piece of namoura which Made His Day.
FoodieBytes.com can actually help you find fun kiddie menus. In NYC, Planet Thailand 212 has a children’s menu that includes such fare as a kid’s dragon roll, crispy sweet noodles with shrimp and fried rice with choice of tofu or chicken satay. In DC, the Lebanese Taverna offers a limited children’s menu, but each selection comes with hummus and they even include kibbeh as a menu item choice.
Now you’re talking.
