oh pdx and your crazy love for all things food cart...actually i suppose we can really say oh america, you and your crazy love for all things food cart. it's not like the food cart hasn't been around everywhere think construction sites with the cellophane wrapped white bread sandwiches and bad coffee... fortunately they've been taken up a notch or two...chi-town's gott'em, seattle is explorin'
em. heck there's even a show coming up on food network or travel focusing on food carts.
i digress, what i really wanna share is my excitement that 2 food carts have just moved in at 7th / e burnside... you know where air play used to be. naturally, i had to a be good, friendly "neighbor" and say "hello". more like say hello and here's my money hook me up with the goods...
boy oh boy did they ever!
has it been since monday that i ate the delectable "big c peking pork" sandwich from Porridge?? really only a few days? how sad and lonely my taste buds have grown..
What pray tell is a "big c peking pork".. well, how does smoked pork, melted swiss, hoisin pear glaze with jicama slaw sound? to me it sounds addictive! can you see how thick the melted swiss is... oh my gawwd. the pear glaze is really what put it into overdrive. it seaped in the bread and man, deeee-lish! de-gorgeous and de-GROVY... (thank you delite!)
this baby, and it was like a firm little baby bundle wrapped in brown paper, is only $7.00.
which to me is totally worth it... i couldn't even eat the whole thing so i got to enjoy it twice. sheesh!! the mc61 even got a few bites outta this baby! that how big this baby bundle was!
thursday, today, brought me to slow & low. they've got a silver food cart/truck with a big piggie adorning the side. best part of the piggie is it's got a skull on his shirt. i didn't have my phone otherwise i'd grace you with a picture. i did manage to snap two when i got back to the office...
coco is really coconut chipotle braised boston butt.
WOW! how's yer butt? oh it's great; pulled and juicy. shit this was damn fine. it also has carrot daikon pickle and thai basil. but they were out of thai basil so i substituted the arugula from one of the other sandwiches being offered. look at how amazing this sandwich looks... i will say this though, it was not as dense as the "big c"... it was much easier to carry this one back to my office, ha!
oh coco, coco, COCO... just when you think it can't get any better... you are like the ole billy barrooo (sp) that ted knight waxes for in caddyshack.
you come through in the clutch that's fer sure!
i highly recommend visiting either one of these food carts not only are they donned with delicious food, the owners are very nice and friendly.
after watching three episodes of anthony bourdain in india and eating these sandwiches i just wanna come home and cook shit! mc61 and i even talked about taking a cooking class together. we both love to cook although, he is really much better at it than i am. then again, i'm better at hand sewing. we've all got our things ...
i know it's about time we got back to the stitches. with our recent move, finding the right place for this and that can be time consuming. and the more time consummed, the less time i'm sewing. i did manage to create a little inspiration in my cluttered sewing nook... putting my thread bottles in the window makes me happy..
