I've heard that cow tipping is a bizarre sport which involves going into fields and tipping cows over on their sides; apparently the cow can't get up on its own and just has to lie there in the field. Having learned about this I then wondered about fly tipping, which it turns out isn't pushing flies over onto their sides. And then there was the lobster tip incident in Santa Cruz...
Anyway, there were no lobsters, cows or flies in evidence when I visited Thip Khao, a Cambodian restaurant up in the Columbia / Petworth strip that gets gongs on the DC food Internet scene.
Dining solo can be difficult when you want to try everything! The portion sizes here are sufficiently modest (and the waiter's advice on that and heat level was spot-on) that I had room for a duck larb salad and an eggplant and hot-pepper stew with snakehead. Both dishes were packed with flavour, the larb seasoned just right with great texture from the roasted rice, and the stew almost like a tangy, zesty, soupy, roasted eggplant purée with tender fish pieces and a soft egg nestled in.
I did eat only one of the compact little packs of sticky black rice that came with each dish, though.
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