Monday, August 14, 2006

Curried frog sweepstake

Hi. Not sure why the last post didn't go up until now, but consider this a two-for-one deal.

San Francisco ahoy! My hostel is in Little Saigon, and don't tell my mother, but this is a fairly diverse and interesting part of town. Actually, the first thing, and the second thing and third thing I saw when I got off the train from the airport was people somewhat down on their luck. A bit overwhelming, as I knew to expect it, but really, it is everywhere in San Fran....

Anyway, have decided not to linger too long outside on my first night. Shall feel better tomorrow after getting my bearings.

My hostel is beside an intersection, grocery store on one corner, hostel on middle, internet cafe on other, vietnamese cafe on other. Am sorted for the first night.... guess where I went for dinner!

The restaurant has a wide screen TV showing english subtitled vietnamese movie. Here's the plot (imagine a bowl of spicy tofu on rice to go with it)... Man slips into confession and pretends to be priest so he can ask pretty girl if she fancies him. She admits she is confused between two lovers.... Later, young man's father is opening a casino, but his enemy arrives to put a dampner on things. Mr Enemy brings with him famous Japanese woman, so man must let them into his casino. Woman shows her gratitude by flipping off three walls, flying down the stairs and catching a falling waitress. Then her uncle and the young man open up a vietnamese/chinese mcdonalds together and sing a song about pork buns (lotus buns, chard buns, red bean buns, you like buns, we all like buns etc). I swear I am not making this up.....

Anyway, I left it there as I was finding it quite hard to keep up. That's when I noticed the chef's special, Curried Frog. 'Lightly seasoned in lemongrass and coconut milk, on rice with watercress'. I'm not sure I am brave enough, so I thought I would leave it up to my readers....

I leave San Fran the day after tomorrow. Please vote (via comments) whether I should eat Curried Frog for lunch before I go. I consider this a binding referendum. Majority rules.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Smell the fear and eat the frog anyway!

Loving your tales already xxx

Anonymous said...

Great stories, Amy. Try the frogs. I ate alligator and chips in Florida after going out on a boat to look at alligator babies. Eschewed kangaroo steak in Queensland last week though. And I'd try straw if it was with lemongrass and milk!

We missed you at the LILAC meeting earlier tonight.
Pat

Anonymous said...

You know me :-)

Frog is just like chicken -- bet you can't tell the difference

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