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Gerry wrote:
> 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.




---- Oh yeah it WAS in that article - duh - I didn't notice it.  Yes,
only one of them speaks English, but they seemed friendly enough.  I
made a faux pas there.  I was trying to ask for sandwich #3 from the
menu on the wall, but they made me 3 sandwiches instead.  I should have
taken all of them, they were so good.





>
> > 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.





---Guess that the samdwich maker is just inconsistent in how much herbs
and spicy stuff she slops on.






>
> > ---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...




--- Yeah, don't get me started.  You see what happened last time.





>
> 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.





---- Guy wrote a book on "hostess bars" - *Buy Me Drinkee*.  Here's the
link:


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1593300646/qid=1124579240/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-2825602-8774242?v=glance&s=books&n=507846





---- I went to the todai.com website and there's not a sign of the
place on Beach that I went to.  It used to be there.  That's how I
found it. Todai must have disowned it.  The staff was also - ah - a bit
strange looking too, now that I think of it.  Anyway, they didn't
poison me.





----  ww