07. 26. LUNCH

Vietnamese summer rolls

Saturday seminar class is great because afterwards we get to pig out like the totally fit and health-conscious college girls that we are. So I think this qualifies as summer rolls because it’s wrapped in lightly cooked rice paper — wait, is that the only prerequisite? At any rate that is what I am going to call them. I would have taken a picture of the wrapped result, but you’re kind of fully occupied when you’re trying to keep that wobbly vegetable mess of a baby safe in its placenta on your hands, so that sort of presence of mind is not going to happen. By the way, this restaurant is amazing. It has fantastic food and the most atrocious service that I’ve ever seen. They nearly refused to seat us, then they wouldn’t stop sneering. If we could have left tips, we definitely wouldn’t have. But the food was so incredible that we decided to put up with all the haughtiness.

seafood rice noodles

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten rice noodles with seafood instead of beef, and it’s actually not bad. The flavor is a lot stronger, and it’s more forthright and spicy than with meat, but it’s got a nice feel of its own. Also I ended up eating pretty much every single mussel in it, and the one shrimp, so I am satisfied with myself. I pretend that was my prerogative for sitting in front of the bowl.

pineapple fried rice

And not in front of this, which you might possibly know that I would murder an acquaintance or two for. Unfortunately it was on the other end of the table from mine, and even the picture wasn’t taken by me, I had to ask a favor, but the two spoonfuls I had were really, really, really, really, really good. No, but I’m not complaining, seriously, I hogged the mussels. And I was too full for much more of the fried rice anyway. Even if I’m not sure that I wouldn’t have stuck a toothbrush down my throat if I’d been offered more.