Frosty's Caffe (Not a Typo)

Feeding a hangover is tricky business. When you are younger and more resilient, you use greasy food, french fries, and another beer to get over the malaise. But recently this just hasn't done the trick. That kind of meal sits in your stomach. Plus, when hungover you always are starving and then by the time you have three bites you aren't really hungry anymore. Luckily there is a genre of cuisine perfect for this: Asian.

What I crave when hungover is simple, fresh, delicious flavors. I want to eat, but not fill myself up. Last Saturday after our annual post-Thanksgiving lunch at Galatoire's, Lindsay and I sought out the Vietnamese on the other bank, Frosty's.

Frosty's is on Cleary, near Johnny Bright Playground. It is really a smoothie/bubble tea bar that happens to serve food. All the standards are on the menu. We went with a barbecue pork banh mi, an order of bun, and a rice dish with pork and shrimp.

All in all, the food was pretty disappointing. The bread on the banh mi was stale and the pork filling was minuscule. However, the mouth-searing heat of the thin sliced jalapenos got the endorphins flowing.

The bun lacked chargrilled pork, despite the menu's insistence on it being there. The egg rolls filled with ground pork were very good though. The noodles were fatter than normal and the dish was dry, despite dumping the container of nuoc all over the noodles.

The rice dish was OK. Although the rice was a little greasy, it had a very good dispersal of those crunchy bits of rice which make fried rice so great. Again, more of the very good pork filled egg rolls, but how many of those can one person eat at a time. Five is apparently my answer.
But my real problem was being hungover. You see, every few minutes some tanning salon regular fresh from Pilates class would run inside and order a smoothie or a bubble tea with extra "tappy oca". Then the small room would rattle with the cacophony of a three hundred horsepower blender. It sounded as if a boat engine was cavitating inside your head. Plus, they were blaring Vietnamese New Age Muzak on a radio. It was sensory overload which left us unsatisfied and craving Nine Roses or Pho Tau Bay.

Sometimes when you are hungover, you need to just stick with Camelia Grill.

Frosty's Cafe - Bogey.