Those are also the places where you get food poisoning.
Also, pay in cash.
For a viết place you can tell because they keep the mop and bucket in the bathroom with the big ass container of that pink liquid soap.
Nah, the real Viet place is where the old men congregate to smoke cigarettes and play pachisi all day.
We have a local coffee and bahn mi place that had to buy a whole other set of outdoor tables and chairs to set up away from the other customers, chasing off the gaggle of old men gambling became too time consuming, so they just gave in and planned around it.
Never start a terf war with old vietnamese men, it never pans out.
Oh so that new place that opened up next to my local Walmart is Vietnamese; there’s always a bunch of old dudes from the kitchen (I assume from the aprons) playing dice and smoking right next to the front door lol
Prob, pachisi does feature a fair amount of dice action. Unfortunately the gambling itself doesn’t really narrow it down too much. East Asian peeps tend to like their gambling, myself included.
There’s no good Chinese near me 😭
Me either. It’s 300 miles to the nearest decent one, let alone great one.
If they can’t speak the native language, you know that it’s going to be the fucking bomb
I’m my city this is true, however, a new style has emerged: the two young people who opened a restaurant together serving a limited menu where every item is intensely good. I could post a pretty long list of these.
I went to one Vietnamese restaurant all the time that was exactly like this. I ate there so often, one time when they were full they let me sit at the table with their son doing homework. I felt so honored.
Did you copy their work
Probably too high level to understand
I have a place just like that around the corner.
The food sucks.This perfectly describes a Chinese joint near me called Jewel’s Noodles.
This is my favorite place (China Gourmet). $6 for one of those classic 4 compartment styrofoam boxes crammed so full of food it barely even shuts, and the food is the best shit you’ve ever tasted.
And their books are reviewed by a lady with blue bracelets tattooed on her wrists.
I miss the one near me that was like this. They were so cheap too. Their dumpling sauce was like crack. Wife screeching at her husband and then telling you to try the fish ball. They’d give you extra pancakes for your moo shu without asking. I didn’t realize how special it was at the time.
The best Chinese place I’ve ever eaten at is exactly this. My sister was on the son’s soccer team and my mom gave the kid a ride to practice a few times. The parents paid us in our usual orders for helping them out.
Ours closed down because health inspector 🙃 it’s coming back though thank the lord
I honestly don’t care if a rat had it’s brood on the food. That shit is delicious.
lemongrass beef with jalapeños extra spicy over fried rice can’t be beat.
I judge my Chinese food by the condition of the place, if it’s super fancy and well kept, not going to be that good. If the building looks like it’s ready to be condemned, you damn well know it’s gonna be the best Chinese food you have ever had
Also MSG is the best.
MSG is the king of flavour!
It needs to have those backlit pictures of the food above the counter where most of the color has faded away.
