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Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

This Pan-Asian restaurant has long been a Seattle favorite. It's across the street from Benaroya Hall, which makes it perfect for dinner before a symphony performance. I like to pull up a stool at the large satay bar and watch the cooks grill little skewers of everything from chicken to scallops to prawns to lamb. Each skewer is served with a small cube of sticky rice and pickled cucumber; order three or four satay sticks and you have yourself a meal. If you prefer to sit at a table and have a more traditional dinner, Wild Ginger can also accommodate you. Try the Panang beef curry (flank steak in pungent curry sauce of cardamom, coconut milk, Thai basil, and peanuts). The restaurant is upstairs from the Triple Door, a classy live-music club down, so be sure to check the performance schedule.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Seattle 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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