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"What made it odd?"


--- Like I said above - rap "music", gigantic pieces of fish, at least
twice as big as anyplace else, but some of the fish was cooked instead
of raw, and the salmon was smoked, salty like lox!




"Have you noticed the explosion of banh mi (Vietnamese sandwich)
joints?
Over by the Asian Garden Mall there's like 7 of them in a two block
strip.  It's really quite surprising. I was doing some research on them
related vaguely to work and was surprised by the semi-universal
enthusiasm with which they are greeted in the major Non-Californian
towns in which they've appeared.  ChowHounds and blogs and stuff make
like they are like some rare jazz record everybody is dragnetting the
back-streets trying to find.  They are an exceptional variation on what
Unitedstatesians have evolved into an object of absolute irrelevance."

----  No, I didn't notice the profusion - but that's my newest food
passion, Viet sandwiches, and I just discovered them this trip!  My
favorite place was a little hole in the wall joint that I read about on
something that you sent me last year, I think.  But they are somewhat
inconsistent, better than Lee's though.




Got 15 banh mi from Chu Co of various kinds for a salon/discussion
group and the uninitiated spent half their time talking about the
sandwiches. At the evening's conclusion three people asked if they
could take a few home when they left!  That's a first.

> ---I hope they re-open in Arizona.  The previous place was in a bad
> location.  If they could take over the site of the sushi buffet place
> in the big China Mall in Phoenix they'd do great business.




---- Or anyplace on south Dobson - where the Asian people are - but
they should have been able to figure that out for themselves without me
telling them!  .



I've been to Todai's twice and though it was more than acceptable it
wasn't anything I'd hunt down a second again. Anyplace with 100 tables
and a quarter-acre of floor space makes me nervous.


--- Heh heh, but it's all you can eat, and the quality is generally OK
to quite good.




Since I know you chowhound it a bit out here, did you see Gustavo
Arrellano's "74 Best OC Hole-in-the-Wall" article?

<http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/04 /45/cover-arellano.php>


--- Ah, it says that page doesn't exist - but I think that's the
article you sent me last year.



We printed it tiny, put it in the kick-panel of the guitar and have
been eating our way down the list for a year.  We only have about 8
left, since 20 or so were ones we thought we were the only ones aware
of.  He doesn't skew towards Japanese, certainly, but there is some
good grub there.  The best exploratory hints are directed towards
Anaheim, and most specifically to Arab food.


---Yeah, you live in my favorite culinary corner of the world.  Maybe
you can show me the good sandwich joints next year.  I was kinda busy
this trip.

--- Oh, I got a  favorite Korean place in Garden Grove.  I discovered
it last year.  I've been working my way through their entire menu.
It's a great little place, all women.  Let me know if you want the name
- and tell them i sent you!  And my favorite pho place is still the Pho
79 on Hazard.  It's great too, but too crowded on weekends.  Get #33,
super pho.

--- ww