Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Not Pho Rau


When you're traveling and your road time overlaps with a meal time, the buses always stop at these bus stop restaurants that offer mediocre food (that's probably a generous characterization of the food). Generally it is my view that the meat at these places is suspect at best and outright dangerous at worst, so I avoid it like dog shit, or a mud puddle, if your more comfortable with that analogy. I think these restaurants, if you can call them that, make very little effort because they have prearranged deals with the bus companies and are situated in places where you have no choice but to eat at them if you are hungry. At this particular place, they had very little worth mention and I ordered the closest thing to pho rau I could find, which was noodle soup with vegetables. As you can see, it was accurate to say with vegetables because, well, it'd be laughable to say it the other way, which would in effect be saying the vegetables were accompanied by the noodles. It is very clearly the opposite. (The green things parallel to eachother are my chopsticks.) The noodles themselves were only half done and might have been linguini, though I'm not certain. And the veggies, well, they were alright what there was of them. I have this meal listed as being worthy of 2 forks, but I cannot possibly have been in my right mind when I wrote that, so I am dropping it to 1 fork. It was well below average, though I suppose average for bus stop fare.

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