I'm craving Vietnamese and that only means one thing: get out your $1 bills, we are headed to the Westbank. I can't wait to go to Nine Roses and get the pork meatballs and char-grilled pork and the infamous #9.... Wait.... Why are the no cars in the Nine Roses parking lot?
F*ck. Today is Wednesday. Nine Roses is closed on Wednesday. M*ther f*cker.
But there is always the old reliable Pho Tau Bay. Had the Mid City location reopened after Katrina, I would be eating Pho Tau Bay a lot more often than I do now. Pre-K, I would make weekly trips for those delectable banh mi and spring rolls. The banh mi - commonly known as "Vietnamese style po-boys" - start with a magnificent specimen of french bread, which is not surprising considering that Vietnamese bakers were taught by their former colonial rulers from France. (Go back to your 8th grade history course: Vietnam used to be French Indochina.) These crusty rolls are then filled with your choice of a wondrous array of meats: slices of char-grilled pork, stir-fried chicken, homemade rolled ham, or the special chicken liver sausage. Throw on some julienne vegetables, add some hot peppers, and then slather the bread with homemade mayo. Damn, that's a good sandwich.
Oh, did I mention that most of the banh mi cost under $5? At that price, you can afford two. Some might call that "gluttonous." At Blackened Out, we call that "fiscal responsibility."
Good post Peter only one question. Is it correct to say that Vietnam used to be French Indochina? More correct would be that a country in Southeast Asia has always been Vietnam, and that for a period spanning the Colonial-Post Second World War time, The French had a colony in Vietnam which was called French Indochina.
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