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In article <1124558275.819879.204600@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
<wwerewolff@yahoo.com> wrote:

> ---No, thearticle through which i found my little Viet sandwich dive
> was not that article above but a  different one which I may have now
> lost due to computer problem, but the place I was going to was  Ban Mi
> Cho Cu, 14520 Magnolia St. (the name is bigger than the store).

I don't know how/where you foudn it, but Cho Cu, on Brookhurst right by
the tiny park is the the name of the joint Arellano likes in the
article.  Good sandwiches, but reticent counter help.  I don't think
any of them speak English but one--maybe that's why. 

> I
> liked the meatball sandwich.  I like it with a lot of vegetables and
> herbs on it.  Sometimes they got stingy in that department, maybe
> because they think that Americans don't like the spicey stuff.  Next
> time I'll try to tell them that that's the part I like best.

I got the impression they didn't care if we were Americans or even if
we were mammals, they just made them they way they always do.

> ---Don't know much about Arabian food, except we used to occasionally
> go over to some Arab places on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn in my
> college days -  and I'd like to try it now, if nothing else than to
> protest the demonization of the Arab people in the whore media!

I'm not sure if that's part of what has drawn me to Arabic food, music,
and now I'm even learning a bit of the language.  Couple that with
thumbing through the Koran and I suppose that mades me an enemy of the
state.

Like I wasn't already.

Okay that's about as far off topic as we can safely get without taking
it home...

I ate at Daruma in Gardena on Friday.  A *beautiful* building with
hand-hewn beams built by the owner's now-deceased mother-in-law some 20
years ago with *strict* Japanese architectural intent, no nails in the
structure and bunch of other blabber--which might all be true.

We went because it's half-and-half izakaya and karaoke bar.  When we
went initially into the karaoke bar we found 5 waitresses, one
bartender, the gaijin owner (sitting at the bar) and maybe six tables. 
No customers.  Still too early at 9:30, he said.

Still, I thought, why does one need 5 short-skirted waitresses for 6
tables?  We found out later as it is more hostess-bar than karaoke. But
the karaoke was fun anyway.  The food, quite a large menu was all quite
tasty.  The next time there I'd just go to the restaurant where the
same food is 25 cents cheaper and there's no "table charge".  Not
highly recommended, but interesting.

-- 
"A Dictionary of Japanese Food, Ingredients & Culture" by Richard Hosking
(Tuttle, '97).  All the hints one might need for exploring Japanese food.

"The Sake Handbook" by John Gaunter (Tuttle, '02). An excellent intro and
reference to sake.