Great news. There's a new Thai restaurant in Sofia. This a restaurant I've long thought we should have in Sofia. So here's a big welcome to the Thai restaurant <a href="http://bluemoon.bg/" target="_blank">Blue Moon</a>!!

They went for a Thai-inspired name but nothing quite as in your face at Thaiphoon or the King and I. That was probably a good choice for Sofia.

Earlier this week a rumor spread like wildfire around campus this week, about a new Thai restaurant in Sofia. <em>A Thai restaurant</em>, we whispered.  A quick tweet to my followers confirmed the existence of the restaurant. After that it was settled. We would go.

So a bunch of us planned to check it out on Friday night. One of the teachers at school made a reservation for 7:30 pm for a group of nine of us.  Some teachers were leaving from campus and others from our apartments in Mladost.

I however tried not to go. I thought that A. was going to pick me up at the apartments. We'd messaged about it earlier in the day. Then he called. We spoke in Bulgarian because I am trying to actively speak more Bulgarian even though it's often easier to speak English. I thought we confirmed our earlier plans.

Needless to say at 8pm when I was still at home sitting on my couch, I was beginning to wonder what was going on. A. called me when he got to the restaurant. Everyone was there but me. Because I was still at home. Turns out A. thought I was just going to go to the restaurant with some my apartment friends. Ops.

So I grabbed a cab and was downtown 15 minutes later. When I arrived veryone had a pretty good laugh at my expense. Which I clearly deserved.

The restaurant is on Rakovski (Раковски 127) right next to Club Alcohol. Literately right next to Alcohol. In fact if you ate a late dinner you could walk out of Blue Moon and straight down the stairs into the club.

Blue Moon has gone for a gold-moon lit from behind with blue light theme and some hanging paper flowers as decor.

The food. Well, here's the bad news. It's not really Thai food. If you go hoping for coconut infused curries or pad thai with rice noodles you'll be disappointed.  The food is good but it would be much better to describe it as Asian inspired than Thai.

Here's what I liked. The vegetables in the noodle dishes were cut into nice sizes--not too big and not too small-- and then they were well-cooked in that they still had a little bit to them.  The dish I had the pad king also had a little kick to it but it wasn't too much. I actually thought that it was pretty great.

Was it Thai food as I know it? Nope. But that's okay. Luckily I know <a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2010/05/09/pad-thai-esque/" target="_blank">how to make my own pad tha</a>i. In fact I may have to make it one night this week.