Starry Kitchen

Auf wiedersehen my dear Braised Coconut Pork! Since today is your last day with us (for a lil bit, prolly not too long, maybe… I think), I dedicate this video (of extremely questionable quality) from The Sound Of Music! “Why?” you ask?  Well maybe cause I LOVE that movie, and you should just play the video foo’!

(yeah, I am a straight guy that likes The Sound of Music… btw, did you know… that… “the HILLS are aliiiive, with the sound of MUUUUUUSIC… LaaaaAAAaaAA”… is that so WROOOOOONG!)

So we bid Adieu (like how I’m saying “goodbye” in all these European languages, it makes me sound so worldly and wise! ^^) to my favorite dish, and today… we’ve made a whole SH-T LOAD of it too. (A “SH-T LOAD” IS a quantitative measurement in certain countries and districts of LA County if I’m not mistaken LOL)

So pack your bags, bring your appetites and get ready to be very confused by our parking structure (if you’re driving, it’s on Olive between 2nd and 4th labeled 350 S. Grand ^_^)

If you can make it, don’t be too shy to say “Hi!”

Au revoir (Coconut Pork!)

Team SK

@4 months ago
#braised coconut pork #the sound of music 
“Check check.. is this blog working?”
(clearing throat)
HELLOOOOOOoooooOOOooOOOooo… DTLA,
It’s week 4, and we’re still here.  I know, right? HOLY CRAP WE CAN’T BELIEVE IT OURSELVES EITHER!
We’ve survived, grown and learned for almost a month now, and we’re still gonna keep the hope alive (or something like that)! =)
What’s the subtitle for week 4, I dunno = “Why the hell not? Let’s just keep this train a chuggin’ along!”
That’s kinda cheesy and doesn’t describe anything? Oh well, that’s what you get when you type up the blog before your daily baguette run, okay? sheesh! ^_^
SO, as promised, the VIETNAMESE BRAISED COCONUT PORK rain-check offer still stands.  For the next TWO days, we will NOT rotate it out and will offer it today and tomorrow.  Here’s a fun sign for the FIRST day we operated outta our… ummm… yeah, APARTMENT!

Starting Weds (that’s March 10th for those that want to try to pick a fight w/ me just to confuse me on what day we “said” we promised), we will start serving THIS (aka TAIWANESE FRIED PORK):

(*drool*)
Ooooh man, so much to say, but not enough time… I’ll update this post with all the changes in a bit… until then, enjoy this AWESOME OK GO video that was posted recently.  I mean, SERIOUSLY, this video is EFFIN’ INCREDIBLE! ^_^







Xoxo,
TEAM SK

“Check check.. is this blog working?”

(clearing throat)

HELLOOOOOOoooooOOOooOOOooo… DTLA,

It’s week 4, and we’re still here.  I know, right? HOLY CRAP WE CAN’T BELIEVE IT OURSELVES EITHER!

We’ve survived, grown and learned for almost a month now, and we’re still gonna keep the hope alive (or something like that)! =)

What’s the subtitle for week 4, I dunno = “Why the hell not? Let’s just keep this train a chuggin’ along!

That’s kinda cheesy and doesn’t describe anything? Oh well, that’s what you get when you type up the blog before your daily baguette run, okay? sheesh! ^_^

SO, as promised, the VIETNAMESE BRAISED COCONUT PORK rain-check offer still stands.  For the next TWO days, we will NOT rotate it out and will offer it today and tomorrow.  Here’s a fun sign for the FIRST day we operated outta our… ummm… yeah, APARTMENT!

Old Thit Kho Sign!

Starting Weds (that’s March 10th for those that want to try to pick a fight w/ me just to confuse me on what day we “said” we promised), we will start serving THIS (aka TAIWANESE FRIED PORK):

(*drool*)

Ooooh man, so much to say, but not enough time… I’ll update this post with all the changes in a bit… until then, enjoy this AWESOME OK GO video that was posted recently.  I mean, SERIOUSLY, this video is EFFIN’ INCREDIBLE! ^_^

Xoxo,

TEAM SK

@4 months ago
#braised coconut pork #taiwanese fried pork #ok go #week 4 

“He ate my PORK”

Here’s a lil poem I wrote for my my ALL-TIME-FAVORITE dish that we make and will be saying “Adieu” to after this Tuesday (only for a lil bit):

An Ode to Coconut Pork (to the tune of Lady Gaga’s MONSTER):

“He ate my pork /
He ate ate ate my PORK /
He ate my pork /
He ate ate ate MY pork.”

Don’t let it happen that happen to you (and disregard the rest of the lyrics of the song if you know it.. Not relevant here ^_^)

What’s new?

What’s staying?

Lemongrass Chicken + Nebraska Angus Japanese Meatball Curry (try to say that 10 times really fast!)

What’s going away?

Au revoir (Coconut Pork… after Tuesday ^_^),

TEAM SK

@4 months ago
#braised coconut pork #taiwanese fried pork #lady gaga 
New SK lesson: “CONSISTENCY IS.. NICE?!?!”
What does that mean exactly since it’s one of those weirdly posed half-question/statements, right? (<- that’s one of those too LOL) Well, let’s put it this way before we get into the slumber inducing details, shall we:
The BAD (you can casually skip this part and/or get bored enough to click on YouTube now if you would like ^_^): today, and there’s a possibility I could be speaking/posting TOO soon, we WILL NOT be serving the VN BRAISED COCONUT PORK.
The GOOD #1: We haven’t been running out of sides this week, and not one threat of someone kicking me in my “sensitive child-making area” has been sighted. (whew)
The GOOD #2: Assuming the Kitchen Ninja confirms the pork is NO GOOD today, we will be bringing back (in limited quantity) KOREAN SHORT-RIBS (“K/Galbi”) today to fill the void left by the pork (damn you pork!)
(FYI- my “sensitive” area is on guard again!)
WHY? (AGAIN!)
Like the first time when we took it off the menu for a day, the pork was/is “no bueno!” Or to be specific, we found this last batch to be TOO FRICKIN’ DRY! (why JEEBUS! WHYYYY)
So WHAT’S the lesson with all this again?
Well, we gotta serve you food as consistent in quality as we can get it (aka don’t be a greedy and cheap-O “D-Bag” and serve CRAP ^_^) And you know what, we can’t serve ya food we wouldn’t eat ourselves. (even though SOME of you push us to anyway, we can’t have that.. FOO’S)
The pork is quite tender, but still very dry.  Not to go into too much detail, but we’ve been dealing with different vendors, different and yet similar cuts of pork and also working a non-fire based range (electric induction) which adds a lot of variables (which we think we’ve isolated in a very “qualitative” aka “boring” scientific way… FINALLY)
So TEAM SK, watcha gonna do?
I’m glad you asked oh mysterious internet reader: for every day we’ve MISSED serving the BRAISED COCONUT PORK, we’re going make up for those days next week!
So as of today, the total tally is kinda/sorta/IS: 2 DAYS!  So we’ll serve that for the first 2 days of next week.
And since it’s on us (double DOH!), I’ll go ahead and tell you the dish we’re thinking of replacing it with (which we’ll start up RIGHT after the lost Coconut Pork time is made up ^^):
TAIWANESE FRIED PORK! (w/ some crispy-tastic pics below… *droooooool*)


We just tried these last night, and they’re SO good! Oh man, we can’t wait to serve these up to ya guys. :)
Well, I think that kind of sums it up for today kiddos. We ain’t perfect, and we never profess to be (or did I…hmmmmm).  If you have any suggestions, wanna send me not-so-nice messages because you’re not happy, or found my money in that bank in Nigeria I’ve been lookin’ for (it’s about $20,000,000 USD or so if I remember correctly): just e-mail me or post on our Facebook wall.
Toodles (and hoping you don’t hate us… yet),
TEAM SK

New SK lesson: “CONSISTENCY IS.. NICE?!?!

What does that mean exactly since it’s one of those weirdly posed half-question/statements, right? (<- that’s one of those too LOL) Well, let’s put it this way before we get into the slumber inducing details, shall we:

The BAD (you can casually skip this part and/or get bored enough to click on YouTube now if you would like ^_^): today, and there’s a possibility I could be speaking/posting TOO soon, we WILL NOT be serving the VN BRAISED COCONUT PORK.

The GOOD #1: We haven’t been running out of sides this week, and not one threat of someone kicking me in my “sensitive child-making area” has been sighted. (whew)

The GOOD #2: Assuming the Kitchen Ninja confirms the pork is NO GOOD today, we will be bringing back (in limited quantity) KOREAN SHORT-RIBS (“K/Galbi”) today to fill the void left by the pork (damn you pork!)

(FYI- my “sensitive” area is on guard again!)

WHY? (AGAIN!)

Like the first time when we took it off the menu for a day, the pork was/is “no bueno!” Or to be specific, we found this last batch to be TOO FRICKIN’ DRY! (why JEEBUS! WHYYYY)

So WHAT’S the lesson with all this again?

Well, we gotta serve you food as consistent in quality as we can get it (aka don’t be a greedy and cheap-O “D-Bag” and serve CRAP ^_^) And you know what, we can’t serve ya food we wouldn’t eat ourselves. (even though SOME of you push us to anyway, we can’t have that.. FOO’S)

The pork is quite tender, but still very dry.  Not to go into too much detail, but we’ve been dealing with different vendors, different and yet similar cuts of pork and also working a non-fire based range (electric induction) which adds a lot of variables (which we think we’ve isolated in a very “qualitative” aka “boring” scientific way… FINALLY)

So TEAM SK, watcha gonna do?

I’m glad you asked oh mysterious internet reader: for every day we’ve MISSED serving the BRAISED COCONUT PORK, we’re going make up for those days next week!

So as of today, the total tally is kinda/sorta/IS: 2 DAYS!  So we’ll serve that for the first 2 days of next week.

And since it’s on us (double DOH!), I’ll go ahead and tell you the dish we’re thinking of replacing it with (which we’ll start up RIGHT after the lost Coconut Pork time is made up ^^):

TAIWANESE FRIED PORK! (w/ some crispy-tastic pics below… *droooooool*)

Taiwanese Fried Pork Chop #1

Taiwanese Fried Pork Chop #2

We just tried these last night, and they’re SO good! Oh man, we can’t wait to serve these up to ya guys. :)

Well, I think that kind of sums it up for today kiddos. We ain’t perfect, and we never profess to be (or did I…hmmmmm).  If you have any suggestions, wanna send me not-so-nice messages because you’re not happy, or found my money in that bank in Nigeria I’ve been lookin’ for (it’s about $20,000,000 USD or so if I remember correctly): just e-mail me or post on our Facebook wall.

Toodles (and hoping you don’t hate us… yet),

TEAM SK

@4 months ago
#thit kho #braised coconut pork #lessons #taiwanese fried pork 
4 months ago
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#braised coconut pork #the sound of music 
“He ate my PORK”

Here’s a lil poem I wrote for my my ALL-TIME-FAVORITE dish that we make and will be saying “Adieu” to after this Tuesday (only for a lil bit):

An Ode to Coconut Pork (to the tune of Lady Gaga’s MONSTER):

“He ate my pork /
He ate ate ate my PORK /
He ate my pork /
He ate ate ate MY pork.”

Don’t let it happen that happen to you (and disregard the rest of the lyrics of the song if you know it.. Not relevant here ^_^)

What’s new?

What’s staying?

Lemongrass Chicken + Nebraska Angus Japanese Meatball Curry (try to say that 10 times really fast!)

What’s going away?

Au revoir (Coconut Pork… after Tuesday ^_^),

TEAM SK

4 months ago
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#braised coconut pork #taiwanese fried pork #lady gaga 
&#8220;Check check.. is this blog working?&#8221;
(clearing throat)
HELLOOOOOOoooooOOOooOOOooo&#8230; DTLA,
It&#8217;s week 4, and we&#8217;re still here.  I know, right? HOLY CRAP WE CAN&#8217;T BELIEVE IT OURSELVES EITHER!
We&#8217;ve survived, grown and learned for almost a month now, and we&#8217;re still gonna keep the hope alive (or something like that)! =)
What&#8217;s the subtitle for week 4, I dunno = &#8220;Why the hell not? Let&#8217;s just keep this train a chuggin&#8217; along!&#8221;
That&#8217;s kinda cheesy and doesn&#8217;t describe anything? Oh well, that&#8217;s what you get when you type up the blog before your daily baguette run, okay? sheesh! ^_^
SO, as promised, the VIETNAMESE BRAISED COCONUT PORK rain-check offer still stands.  For the next TWO days, we will NOT rotate it out and will offer it today and tomorrow.  Here&#8217;s a fun sign for the FIRST day we operated outta our&#8230; ummm&#8230; yeah, APARTMENT!

Starting Weds (that&#8217;s March 10th for those that want to try to pick a fight w/ me just to confuse me on what day we &#8220;said&#8221; we promised), we will start serving THIS (aka TAIWANESE FRIED PORK):

(*drool*)
Ooooh man, so much to say, but not enough time&#8230; I&#8217;ll update this post with all the changes in a bit&#8230; until then, enjoy this AWESOME OK GO video that was posted recently.  I mean, SERIOUSLY, this video is EFFIN&#8217; INCREDIBLE! ^_^







Xoxo,
TEAM SK
4 months ago
Comments (View)
#braised coconut pork #taiwanese fried pork #ok go #week 4 
New SK lesson: &#8220;CONSISTENCY IS.. NICE?!?!&#8221;
What does that mean exactly since it&#8217;s one of those weirdly posed half-question/statements, right? (&lt;- that&#8217;s one of those too LOL) Well, let&#8217;s put it this way before we get into the slumber inducing details, shall we:
The BAD (you can casually skip this part and/or get bored enough to click on YouTube now if you would like ^_^): today, and there&#8217;s a possibility I could be speaking/posting TOO soon, we WILL NOT be serving the VN BRAISED COCONUT PORK.
The GOOD #1: We haven&#8217;t been running out of sides this week, and not one threat of someone kicking me in my &#8220;sensitive child-making area&#8221; has been sighted. (whew)
The GOOD #2: Assuming the Kitchen Ninja confirms the pork is NO GOOD today, we will be bringing back (in limited quantity) KOREAN SHORT-RIBS (&#8220;K/Galbi&#8221;) today to fill the void left by the pork (damn you pork!)
(FYI- my &#8220;sensitive&#8221; area is on guard again!)
WHY? (AGAIN!)
Like the first time when we took it off the menu for a day, the pork was/is &#8220;no bueno!&#8221; Or to be specific, we found this last batch to be TOO FRICKIN&#8217; DRY! (why JEEBUS! WHYYYY)
So WHAT&#8217;S the lesson with all this again?
Well, we gotta serve you food as consistent in quality as we can get it (aka don&#8217;t be a greedy and cheap-O &#8220;D-Bag&#8221; and serve CRAP ^_^) And you know what, we can&#8217;t serve ya food we wouldn&#8217;t eat ourselves. (even though SOME of you push us to anyway, we can&#8217;t have that.. FOO&#8217;S)
The pork is quite tender, but still very dry.  Not to go into too much detail, but we&#8217;ve been dealing with different vendors, different and yet similar cuts of pork and also working a non-fire based range (electric induction) which adds a lot of variables (which we think we&#8217;ve isolated in a very &#8220;qualitative&#8221; aka &#8220;boring&#8221; scientific way&#8230; FINALLY)
So TEAM SK, watcha gonna do?
I&#8217;m glad you asked oh mysterious internet reader: for every day we&#8217;ve MISSED serving the BRAISED COCONUT PORK, we&#8217;re going make up for those days next week!
So as of today, the total tally is kinda/sorta/IS: 2 DAYS!  So we&#8217;ll serve that for the first 2 days of next week.
And since it&#8217;s on us (double DOH!), I&#8217;ll go ahead and tell you the dish we&#8217;re thinking of replacing it with (which we&#8217;ll start up RIGHT after the lost Coconut Pork time is made up ^^):
TAIWANESE FRIED PORK! (w/ some crispy-tastic pics below&#8230; *droooooool*)


We just tried these last night, and they&#8217;re SO good! Oh man, we can&#8217;t wait to serve these up to ya guys. :)
Well, I think that kind of sums it up for today kiddos. We ain&#8217;t perfect, and we never profess to be (or did I&#8230;hmmmmm).  If you have any suggestions, wanna send me not-so-nice messages because you&#8217;re not happy, or found my money in that bank in Nigeria I&#8217;ve been lookin&#8217; for (it&#8217;s about $20,000,000 USD or so if I remember correctly): just e-mail me or post on our Facebook wall.
Toodles (and hoping you don&#8217;t hate us&#8230; yet),
TEAM SK
4 months ago
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#thit kho #braised coconut pork #lessons #taiwanese fried pork