While I organize tomorrow’s dinner service, Saturday’s BIRTHDAY BRUNCH-TACULAR (I still don’t know what I’m going to do for my birthday outside of serving food… probably my good ol’ fall back of KARAOKE), Sunday’s lunch service and taking over this place downtown…. updates may be a little slow.
SO, thankfully in the blogging world of Tumblr (which I pretty cool) I subscribe to a ton of foodie blogs that make my mouth water and make me hungries… and THIS is really making me a hungry, hungry hippo…. AAHHHHHH!
That is it, and carry on.
Oh yeah, if you care, this Saturday we’ve locked in our MENU!
Meat: our “NEW” LEMONGRASS CHICKEN (“NEW” as in a new recipe)
Veggie: 5-SPICE POPCORN TOFU
Come one, come all and bring as MANY friends as possible too! We need to test out this kitchen and being SLAMMED! Plus it’s my birthday brunch, doesn’t that count for anything anyMORE! LOL
And don’t worry, it won’t be like HELL’S KITCHEN where there is a remote possibility the kitchen will be shut down… not if we have anything to do with it. ARGH! (I don’t know why that prompts me to talk like a pirate, but it felt like the right thing to do ^_^)
Okay, back to work… but I’ll post detalis on our 1 YEAR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY dinner at PARK’S BBQ for those that have never been there… oh man it’s GOOD! :p
WOW, we’ve come along way in about 7 months! For those that lurk on the mailing list and just look at all the pictures and haven’t stopped by in a while (or those I have voluntarily added, feel free to ask me to take you off ^_^), there has been a TREMENDOUS wave of AWESOME newcomers mainly from our favorite friend, YELP! Thanks to you guys for supporting our “underground covert culinary…kitchen” which now has NINETEEN 5-star reviews. HOLY CRAP! ^_^
Also, if you guys didn’t know, TODAY (11/15) is our ONE YEAR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. It’s not a gimmick, it’s not a joke, and is this real??? Either way, just thought we’d let you know. Here’s a cheesy wedding photo from US above. And of course, the only thing we ask is that you stop by and enjoy our food. ^_^
THE DISHES
NOW onto the food. This time we’ll start FIRST w/ the KOSHER/VEGGIE dish. I’ve told MANY of you guys about this and the miracles of Young Green Jackfruit, but if you haven’t heard it here’s what I always say,
“it’s not like it’s yellow exotic counterpart because it has NO flavor. So in order to cook it, you HAVE to braise it and infuse the flavor into it. But something miraculous happens when you do this: it takes the texture of pulled pork. And many of my vegetarian friends get mad at me when they first try this because they think it’s pork!”
With that said, the veggie is VN BRAISED COCONUT JACKFRUIT. Be warned that THIS is SUPER limited if you want to try it. And because I’ve been pretty bad (sorry guys!) at holding stuff in limited quantity back successfully THIS is going to be first come, first served. For those that are curious, you can always do the half/half order on the taco. ;)
And like the subject says, the MEAT is one of our “signature” dishes: VN BRAISED COCONUT PORK (aka THIT KHO) served w/ sliced hardboiled eggs boiled in the coconut stew. Is this good? You bet your bottom dollar it is sucka! It’s this blogger/eater’s favorite dish of the 15 dishes we’ve served thus far. You may not agree, but we thinks you may like it regardless.
Lastly, the SIDE. Well, as of this email the KITCHEN NINJA doesn’t know exactly what it will be… but she does know it will be a form of fried rice. If you’re like me, we’ll just trust her to make something amazing and try it once it’s served. :)
11/21 Saturday Service Downtown
Okay, this post’s getting long, so if you want more details go HERE for more info: http://bit.ly/aQiNL
Or just email me, call me, Facebook wall post us, PM me, tweet me OR just show up to service and ask us about it. If you can come, PLEASE come. :) Thanks everyone, and we’ll see ya from 12-3p.
Pictured above, our side from yesterday: LIGHTLY CURRIED FRIED RICE w/ LEEKS + SHITAKE MUSHROOMS…
What does that mean? It mean’s it’s effin good! That’s what that means. :)
HAPPY MONDAY HUMANITY
Thanks to all of ya’ll (here comes my Texas roots right there… even though I don’t actually talk like that) that moseyed on over to our eating establishment (aka our back-patio apartment). We’re still meeting new people… and we LOVE that! Props to Rachelle and Sophie. Hot diggity damn you girls are REALLY on top of the current taco truck twitter crazy in LA. WOW! I wish I could have talked to you more. I heard you talking to another n00b, Gary, about all the different trucks. Caring is sharing… that’s what they say! ^_^
Stop your jibba jabba, what you servin’ Wed?
Answer: we’re not goin’ to tell you… until Wed at least (because it’s going to be new ^_^)
In short, we may be taking over this place pretty soon and we want to test ourselves out in the kitchen. So if you can make it, come on out. It’s good for ya.
We’re still working out logistics (i.e. the week hasn’t started yet), but this much I can tell you already. The dish for this Saturday: “NEW” LEMONGRASS CHICKEN. And by “NEW” I mean we’re going to try a new recipe. We’ve been serving this successfully since… April ‘09 (doesn’t quite roll off your tongue when you say it out loud), and we felt a new improvement could work and we’re bringing it out for all of YA’LL to try this Saturday. PLUS, it’s one of the most palatable dishes for a larger group (don’t worry foodie friends, it’s pretty tasty anyway… we promise or we wouldn’t be foodies too… and I realize that promise has no weight to it but just go with it for right now ^_^)
What about your tomfoolery in your “secret” kitchen in Noho?
Who’s asking all these questions? Where are you Chuck Norris… WHERE ARE YOU????
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(ahem) That’s a good question… who EVER you are?!?!
Answer: UNTIL we open up a real… or MORE real establishment here in the valley/NoHo… the STARRY KITCHEN “test/secret/covert” kitchen STAYS! (and all 4 blog readers rejoiced with a quiet… yaaawwwn ^_^)
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I have a ton more to post for all 6 of you (I’m pretty sure since the beginning of this post I’ve acquired 3 more readers… I’m SURE of it!) including picks of one my FAVORITEST Korean BBQ places in EVER… PARK’S BBQ! Even the KITCHEN NINJA has never been there… until last night, and she was IMPRESSED… and I’m just FULL! ^_^ I’ll give you a quick summary though: HIGH QUALITY. I’ll write more later with pics too.
Until then, you either hate her, love her, deplore her, think’s she’s weird or… whatever… but here’s LADY GAGA’S BAD ROMANCE for your mental consumption (or deterioration). I have to admit, she’s a guilty pleasure of mine… and so much fun to sing at karaoke too. Don’t hate me ‘cause I’m a DORK (that’s who I am… I can’t helpS it) ^_^ Just watch it, even for a minute because frankly… it’s pretty f’in beautifully shot. Forget the music, it’s pretty cool to look at (and hopefully you sellout to like the music so we can karaoke this, JUST DANCE, PAPARAZZI and P-P-P-POKERFACE together ;p):
