Yesterday, Jessica and I joined Marc and Karla for lunch at Wild Ginger, Great Neck Wild Ginger-GN -- I want to be specific since there are dozens of restaurants with the same name around the country, and they are unrelated (except for a second location at Bronxville Wild Ginger-Bronxville. It was beautiful weather so we sat out front.

We each got an appetizer, and Marc grabbed a ginger ale, served in a nice tall ale glass. He also started with the Chicken Satay, which came with a mango peanut dipping sauce. Karla got the Thai Spring Rolls, Jessica got the Japanese Seaweed Salad, and I got the Dim Sum. I really enjoyed the dim sum, they were a ground pork stuffing in the open top style shell and a single shrimp in the middle. Overall, Jess' seaweed was the winner-- it was served crisp and fresh with jicama and a sweet dressing. Initially it didn't seem too sweet, although, by the end we were sugared out.

For mains, Marc got the Chicken Pad Thai, Karla had the Yaki Udon, Jess had the Grilled Sesame Salmon, and I had the Sambal Samba. Marc's food apparently didn't sit right, as it kicked the crap out of his stomach (literally). Karla enjoyed hers more than Jess did: the sesame salmon turned out to be over-cooked, over-sweet salmon teriyaki.

Except for the fact that my sambal was loaded with fungus (I won't eat mushrooms), which I sadly had to pick out while groaning, the flavor was phenomenal. Like Jess' my seafood was way over-cooked, but the eggplant was delicious and the "Indonesian spices" were the exact right level.

With decent service and really nice chopsticks, I would likely go back, next time I'm in Great Neck, NY.