Alright since work is slow here is another post/ode-to-food-in-bowls:
Infinite Soups
God bless the Clapps. These 'salt-of-the-earth' type people are the willy-wonka style geniuses behind Infinite Soups. Imagine a place where you can almost see the teeming flavors in the air, where you can get a hearty cup of soup for 2.50, where you can sample over 20 types of soup to determine your choice, image Infinite Soups. This wonderful little shop located on Tacoma Ave right next to Malarkys Billiard Hall (a great place. Go inside, order 2 Bob Marleys, fork over $10 before you drink, consume said drinks, wake up 2 days later with a killer hang-over, a dog named pebbles in your house and a tatoo of the once and former pebbles the dog, oh you'll also wake up somewhere in Alabama). Anyways, I digress; Infinite soups is delicious. I bet you $5 (equivalent to a bowl of Pho) that you will find something to enjoy there. Oh btw they don't have any seating so get your soup to go, grab a mickeys 22 ounce from the convenience store across the street, hit Wright Park and pretend to be homeless as you eat your soup and drink your paper-bagged beer. Life experiences guys, life experiences.
Korean Bowls and the wrath that follows:
Be forwarned that this post does mention the after-effects of super-spicy korean food, in detail. This ones for you Leif.
Kim-ChiChige, Dol Sup BiBimBop, Spicy cold noodle soup, tofu hot pot. One things the Koreans got right are their bowl dishes. First they have totally wicked stone bowls that they fill mainly with super-spicy chili paste. Second the variations of super spicy chili paste are friggin awesome. Third, Koreans being hateful (i'm Japanese, Chinese & Korean. My Korean side hates the rest of my body) have developed a delicious food that doubles as direct retaliation against all other ethnic cultures (except maybe Indian) in the world. What happens? Shit happens, terrible, terrible shit. As red and hot as lava, you will literally cry from your butt after enjoying the greatest spicy meal of your life. Here is the DL on some of my favorite butt-hurting, soul-scorching, mind-numbing, bowl-using Korean dishes.
Kim-ChiChige (spelling is wrong)
Kim Chi (spicy pickled cabbage) bowled with pork and tofu in with chili's added to it. So good you can't stop eating it, so bad you can't stop shitting it. It really is delicious but I am only allowed to have it once a month as I habitually lose 10lbs after eating a bowl of it.
Dol Sup BiBimBop
While not a soup, this korean style fried rice is totally sweet simply for the fact that it comes in a friggin hot sizzling stone bowl. Comes with the general assortment of pan-chan on it (small korean side-dishes), topped with a fried egg. Toss it all with the jug of Korean style spicy ketchup they provide and bam you got instant deliciousness. Don't touch the bowl, it really is hot. Really, don't do it.
Tofu Hot Pot
This is the capstone of Korean bowl food. First it is similar to Kim-ChiChige in the form of super spicy, super red, wreak your gut 2x over style. BUT it has delicious additions of egg, mushrooms, seafood, and beef. It will fill you up, make you feel all warm inside, then give you something to talk to with your guy friends for the next 10 days... BTW you'll still be feeling the effects for 10 days. Do it, life experiences guys. Life experience.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Holy !@#$
It has been almost a year since a posted last. Well since I am the only one who reads this I guess I don't really owe anyone anything. But I did promise myself in an early post that I would blog about Pho on Sundays & Vien Dong. Well first things first Pho on Sundays:
Sunday Pho:
Once upon a time I woke up Sunday afternoon and realized: a) my head felt like millions of tiny mice had tap-danced the night away on my naked skull wearing clogs b) my clothes were covered in mud, dirt and blood (hopefully my blood) c) I was friggin starving. The solution? Quite simple you would think: Pho. So I got my lazy, still-slightly drunk, physically hurt body out of bed and attempted to roll for some Pho. I got 2 closed signs, now Pho like air/water/food & shelter should be something that is available to people 24/7. The fact I couldn't find any not only hurt my pride but also my physical/mental health as I proceeded to cry in my car until I found another delicious bowl food: Kim Chi-Chige. More on this later.
Vien Dong:
In my quest for delicious meat-based broth & noodles I was pointed towards Vien Dong. While some say it is better than V&V I must disagree. Excellent Pho? Yes. They rock a Southern Vietnamese style of Pho that has more cilantro and includes Chinese style chashu that is downright delicious. Also, since they have little to no seating you often get pho splash-back from other, close by tables. This causes both pain and longing as while boiling hot, sometimes you get hit with another style of pho that makes you realize you'll have to come back to sample them all. 6 of10 easy breezy.
Sunday Pho:
Once upon a time I woke up Sunday afternoon and realized: a) my head felt like millions of tiny mice had tap-danced the night away on my naked skull wearing clogs b) my clothes were covered in mud, dirt and blood (hopefully my blood) c) I was friggin starving. The solution? Quite simple you would think: Pho. So I got my lazy, still-slightly drunk, physically hurt body out of bed and attempted to roll for some Pho. I got 2 closed signs, now Pho like air/water/food & shelter should be something that is available to people 24/7. The fact I couldn't find any not only hurt my pride but also my physical/mental health as I proceeded to cry in my car until I found another delicious bowl food: Kim Chi-Chige. More on this later.
Vien Dong:
In my quest for delicious meat-based broth & noodles I was pointed towards Vien Dong. While some say it is better than V&V I must disagree. Excellent Pho? Yes. They rock a Southern Vietnamese style of Pho that has more cilantro and includes Chinese style chashu that is downright delicious. Also, since they have little to no seating you often get pho splash-back from other, close by tables. This causes both pain and longing as while boiling hot, sometimes you get hit with another style of pho that makes you realize you'll have to come back to sample them all. 6 of10 easy breezy.
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