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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

“SIIIIIIIIIIIDES!”

Some people are yelling that because they love ‘em, and others are yelling that (at us)  because we’ve been consistently running out of ‘em (DOH!)

For that, I write this apology letter, and no this isn’t a sarcastic F’ U letter.. we really mean it and think it sucks so…:

Dear DTLA’ers, new+old SK fans:

It has come to our attention that…. okay, I know, we just CAN’T make enough sides (& brown rice) to accommodate the shear MADNESS that ensues during the lunch rush.  Very simply, I wanted to take a moment and say:

“DOH! We’re so SORRY!”

We profess to keep a “D-Bag Free Zone” and here we are… being “D-Bags” for running out of sides… OOOOOOOOH the IRONY!

Some of you may think that we’re gonna play that “newbie card” right about now…but I’m NOT! :) I know the consequences of that card (if one “consequence” were a free trip to the Bahamas I would probably then use that “card” all the time LOL), and in this case it isn’t that… entirely.

Honest to a higher-power (<- “higher-power” instead of “God” ‘cause everyone has different ideologies, and I don’t wanna be too narrow in this apology :D) TRUTH: We have actually been making MORE every day, but we can’t keep up or anticipate the amount of growth we’ve had since SKDT has opened.  And THAT’S the truth.

It’s not a ploy, gimmick or some manipulative game we’re playing to make you mad, and risk me getting kicked full thrust in my very sensitive “child-making area” (“OUCH!”), I can promise you that.  We wanna make you happy, not mad!  We just never realized how fast word would spread about us.

So please accept this apology without completely playing the “newbie card.”  We genuinely want you guys to try all our different food (since we have like 50 different dishes), so it’s in our best interest for you guys to try as much as possible so we can figure out what YOU love the best.

The Solution? We’re going to keep INCREASING the quantities until we find that sweet spot so everyone can have a taste.

Thank you DTLA. If you read this far, then I apologize for boring you and please accept my apology for your boredom as well.  Thanks.

Much love,

Nguyen, Thi (<- the Kitchen Ninja!) and GQ Tran (<-SK Mascot Extra-ORDINAIRE!)

(end apology letter)

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And on that note, I know I’ve used this before in a post a LONG time ago when I used to have 5 readers (3 of which were me just refreshing the screen 3 times to increase my stats ;p), but now “we so HAPPY… we do the dance of JOY!”

…man I used to love PERFECT STRANGERS. Am I alone on this… anyone, anyone?!?! ^_^

See you guys today… with MORE sides!

Xoxo,

TEAM SK