{"id":30783,"date":"2026-05-22T09:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30783"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:27:19","slug":"brians-first-time-at-lulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30783","title":{"rendered":"Brian’s First Time at Lulu’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had dinner at Lulu’s Thai Noodle Shop in Crossroads while we were in Kansas City earlier this month. Somehow I was convinced that Brian and I had been there before. Brian insisted he had never been but I knew for sure that I had. Anyway, I dug up this post from ten years ago<\/a>. Long story short, I suggested that we go over there for dinner and he said no but then I got my wish a couple of months later when I ate there with some coworkers.<\/p>\n

\"Restaurant<\/a><\/p>\n

Fast forward 10 years later, he finally got to try it. Also, you know it’s good because it’s still around. Few restaurants survive the test of time.<\/p>\n

\"Brian<\/a><\/p>\n

We walked to the restaurant from our hotel so we enjoyed a few drinks and didn’t even think twice about it. LOL.<\/p>\n

\"Enjoyed<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Mule<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are some pictures of our food.<\/p>\n

\"Lulu's<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Wontons\"\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Pad<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Soup\"\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I decided to have soup because the walk was a little chilly and I was unprepared for cooler weather. I didn’t even bring a hoodie. Anyway, this is the Tom Kha Gai which is not quite what I had expected. I feel like I had Tom Kha Gai at our local Tup Tim Thai here in Wichita and it was different. Different or not, it was good and I still enjoyed it. I slurp, slurp, slurped it.<\/p>\n

\"Brian<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking of walk. I took a couple of pictures of Brian in one of the alleys we walked past on the way to the restaurant.<\/p>\n

\"Brian<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the funny thing. Ten years ago, when I asked to eat here, Brian refused citing that he thought the area looked “sketchy” and here were are ten years later — not only are we eating there, but we walked to and from the restaurant even. Either the Crossroads District has come a long way in the last ten years or we have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had dinner at Lulu’s Thai Noodle Shop in Crossroads while we were in Kansas City earlier this month. Somehow I was convinced that Brian and I had been there before. Brian insisted he had never been but I knew for sure that I had. Anyway, I dug up this post from ten years ago. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[674,32,1803],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30783"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30793,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30783\/revisions\/30793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}