The House Special Salad with escargot, squid, and mango.
Re:Vietnamese Salads. Almost always very light and refreshing with herbs/fried shallots. Kinda underrated by foodies. Or maybe less exposure? This was well made, nice textures and flavors!
Coconut Escargot.
On its own these snails are pretty neutral tasting but when you suck out the snail with a little bit of that coconut broth it is a nice bite. Coconut broth was pretty balanced I thought, with some red chiles to counter the coconut.
They opened a second location with a bar. so that may help with the wait some. Their oc dishes can be hit or miss, i think. There’s too much over-reliance of the scallion, peanut, sriracha combo. We do like the fried red tilapia there–it’s nicely battered and fried and all the salads, esp the shaved morning glory one but the green mango is good too. the Thai hotpot isn’t comparable to good tom yum, but it’s also the most pedestiran hotpot on the menu. Beef Sate, Oxtail and tendon, medicinal goat, bittermelon, and fermented fish hotpots for the adventuresome.
It’s not found in California waters. But that shouldn’t matter as we get seafood from all over. I can only surmise that it doesn’t survive long so it’s hard to ship.
I guess I’m looking on the wrong side of town. I thought commercially the crawfish/crayfish were not prevalent in California waters anymore and very few were left in small bodies of water (ponds, parks). My bad. I thought for commercial purposes they’re mostly in eastern and southern waters, and the closest commercial area was the Pacific NW.
Okay, but it’s cool to know you can still catch some for dinner in California. Maybe I’ll buy traps. Just kidding. But I’ll definitely be on the look out at Asian markets. We have Hannam and Galleria close by in Ktown. I think it’d be fun to do a seafood boil.
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The nerve of the WSJ. I recently found out they’ve been erroneously taking money from my bank account every month including this month (long story. I thought it was something else). But I was just asked to start a subscription to read this article. Bastards!