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Happy Sunday everyone,

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.

Xoxo,

TEAM SK

Hey gang,

HAPPY MONDAY (barf!)  Welcome back to the grind. For those of us that don’t have Facebook, twitter or the entire internet blocked, here’s a little tidbit from yesterday.  If you can’t read the previous blog posts because your internet impaired, yesterday we went ALL NEW which we haven’t done in a L-O-N-G time.  We served:

• VIETNAMESE BRAISED STAR ANISE PORK (‘da meat)
• HONEY PANKO CRUSTED CRISPY TOFU BALLS (‘da m’fing good veggie)
• PINEAPPLE FRIED RICE (side)

Pics are above for those that didn’t make it, and for those that want to cause further frustration to themselves because they can’t have it because:

1. We rotate our menu and who knows when we’ll bring any of these 3 items back
2. You work in an area where Gruel is the special of the day and only option (sorry suckas)
3. You’re a lurker and STILL haven’t stopped by (s’alright, more for us until you show up ^_^)

Btw, did anyone notice that we have 15 Five-star reviews on Yelp now!!! How friggin’ sweet is that.  Damnit we’re spoiled now.  The minute we drop from anything but a Five-star rating, we’ll be bummed but that’s life I guess!

Alrighty, enough of those shenanigans (which my spell checker ACTUALLY knows how to spell correctly… genius!)  We have to think about what we’re going to serve Wednesday.  The KITCHEN NINJA feels like trying some more new stuff, so more than likely Weds will be all new again.  HOORAY!

And on the topic of new and a rotating menu, after much thought and deliberation with in the inner circle of SK (me and my wife that is), we’re going to stick with this as we grow.  I bring this up because we ARE considering growth already.  Don’t want to go “on the record” yet, but we’re vetting out an opportunity as we speak and one of the main questions have been “do we keep surprising people” or “do we sell out and be like everyone else?”  I say F’ that, we’re sticking to our guns and surprising people.  I’m thinking the routine will change from what dish is your fave to these people will just trust us and take what we dish out.  Or as one of my New Yorker friends put it, the Soup Nazi did just fine not telling anyone what he was serving… why can’t we?

But anyway, gotta go… and I can’t seem to keep up these blog posts and one of my favorite things to do with them too: embed funny unrelated videos.  With that said, please allow me to present to you something I JUST found now: Christopher Walken reciting Lady Gaga’s POKER FACE… an instant classic:

Xoxo,

TEAM SK