Steve Zaintz' "Jasmine Thai And Sushi House"

Left: Sister Michelle, together with Steve Zaintz, in front of the Jasmine Thai and Sushi House.


Today, the theme was, "what are Ira Gershin's friends up to these days?" In particular, what are Steve Zaintz and Jeff Brofsky up to these days? These two people, and myself, form a college-friend cohort of Ira's, and we've been meeting approximately every two years in Las Vegas, for the purpose of celebrating the bat and bar mitzvah's of Ira's kids. The next scheduled meeting is in July, 2008, for Daniel's bar mitzvah. Nevertheless, I've never visited Steve's and Jeff's Albuquerque businesses before.



Left: Steve Zaintz.

For many years, Steve ran the Bangkok Cafe on Central Avenue in Albuquerque, before opening his new restaurant this July. Steve Zaintz and I were in high school physics class together, and we have several friends in common, beyond Ira, such as Walt.

Met Steve, his wife Noy, and their daughter. Wonderful food, in a posh new setting. Cashew chicken and pineapple chicken curry. C'est magnifique!



Left: Comic book cover.

Later, we traveled to Tall Tales Comic Books and saw Jeff's business for the first time. Jeff has run the Tall Tales Comic Book Store, on Wyoming Blvd, for the last twenty years. The place is stuffed with comic books, and pop culture paraphernalia of sorts (I liked the plastic, self-assembled Jabba the Hutt model). Jeff said he was going to eat at Steve's place later that evening. We said we had eaten at Steve's place earlier that day. Great minds think alike!