Following the previous day's meal, I was really glad that we'd organised to have lunch with mon Cousin Alix and Bron at the relatively late time of 2pm. Our location? Chinatown. I've been whining a lot about the lack of Chinatown to my friends in Munich. In fact, it's probably been getting on their nerves a lot. But I really needed to show them what it's like when Asians congregate and REALLY compete with each other on how to provide the best of whatever they can get with each other.
So the best way to start that was to go to where Pooey declared she'd had the best pho - Le Bambou!
We caught up with Bron who moved to France a month after I hied off to Munich! She said she hadn't had pho in who knows how long!
Mandy pours the tea...
As does Christine.
Oh man, I missed a good bowl of pho dac biet with all those organ meats. I was kinda disappointed with the tendons though. Where were they?!?!
Mandy also had the pho dac biet and she agreed - it was one of the best phos she'd ever had!
Christine bucked the noodle soup trend and got herself thit kho. It was soy/caramelly goodness.
An overview of all our dishes.
After lunch, we went walking around Chinatown where I tried to show the various bizarre things that I missed and people who were not familiar with Chinatown got to smell that distinct Chinatown aroma - the sweetness of various roasted meats overlaid on the base notes of rotting vegetables and stagnant water. Mmmmm, fragrant!
Like various meats hanging in a window!
Christine was pretty impressed by those delicious looking quails!
An asian bakery with lurid coloured cakes. These cakes are actually macarons! This bakery didn't sell poison pork rolls but they did sell egg tarts (Jul bought one to try) and I got a banh bao (steamed pork bun)
And an Asian stationer with lots of random weird Asian...things...
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