The other night I took a stroll over to a great little take out place near my apartment.Our neighborhood (Uptown/Andersonville) includes an area known as Chinatown North and Little Vietnam. The latter is more accurate since the majority of the shops and restaurants are Vietnamese, but there is some good Chinese and a little bit of Thai in the area too.
One of the great Chinese outposts is a little walk-up counter named Sun Wah. Sun Wah has a great window display of Pekin Ducks and racks of pork ribs hanging from hooks for all to see. The ducks are all beautiful and golden brown, and you can take a whole duck from the window and have it chopped by crazy cleaver wielding Chinese men for $14.00. They have a giant menu on the wall listing over 200 items, but people really just go for the B.B.Q. pork, duck, and chicken. (I ordered a beef curry dish once and they gave me a funny look. They must have considered it girl food.)
The other night I thought I might try to redeem my standing with the cleaver wielders and order what I was supposed to order. I went with item #223 - Barbequed Pork on Rice. Grand total was $4.40. Take a look at this goodness.
2 comments:
That does look tasty - and what a bargain! We will have to take you to the Wei Wei Palace some time when you are in town. It has become one of Mike's favorite places. They do the whole various animals hanging in window display and there is a cool supermarket attached.
I could do so much with Mike liking Wei Wei Palace, but I'll not drag you into such a discussion. Instead, I will tell you that I would love to check it out. What area of town?
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