Houston's Thai Beef Salad

It's getting to be time to think about good summer meals.  The kind you eat out on the patio on a lazy Saturday afternoon when you don't need anything real heavy.  We just discovered this salad recipe, and it is just right for that kind of day.
 
I flat stole the recipe.  I had an urge for a Thai Beef Salad, and I found this one on the internet.  No adaptation, no combining with other recipes, no adjustments (well, I did double the Sriracha sauce, but the recipe allowed for that).  The recipe is great just the way it is.


This salad is the author's interpretation of a recipe from Houston's Restaurant, a chain.  The restaurant's menu describes it as "Thai Steak & Noodle Salad (or with Chicken): Marinated filet or rotisserie chicken with avocado, mango and herbs in Thai dressing" and they get $19 for it.  I have never been to a Houston's, but as I was looking at their web site, I discovered that there is one at Kirby and Westpark in Houston, just a few blocks from my brother's house -- I guess we will have to give it try sometime so I can make my own judgement on Houston's version.

I found a picture of the salad purportedly taken at a Houston's in California - I think mine looks better, but judge for yourself.