Posts Tagged ‘Song Que’
Have You Ever Seen a Banh Mi This Elaborate in the D.C. Area?
For reasons that will become clear later, Y&H has become obsessed with banh mi — and the many subtle ways one sandwich differs from another.
Most in the D.C. area offer variations on these basic ingredients: a pork preparation (shredded, roasted, barbecued), pâté, cold cuts (including those divine slices of head cheese for crunch), pickled veggies, slices of jalapeño, a mayo-based dressing, and some cilantro garnish, all on a crusty mini-baguette. But I have never seen anything as elaborate as this banh mi, which Anthony Bourdain wolfed down during a No Reservations trip to Vietnam.
I’m not even sure what some of those ingredients are. What’s that reddish looking sauce clinging to the sides of the baguette? A fish sauce-loaded hot sauce perhaps? And a fried-egg finish? Good God, I’ve never had such a thing around here — but I’m dying to find one soon.
Compare the banh mi that Bourdain pounds down to a combination banh mi that I bought this weekend at Song Que:
It was tasty, yes, but I gotta think we’re missing out on some decadent banh mi in our parts.
Get to Know Your Ethnic Eats: Vietnamese Curried Beef Jerky
The Food: Vietnamese curried beef jerky.
Where Spotted: Song Que, the Vietnamese deli in the Eden Center, 6769 Wilson Blvd, (703) 536-7900.
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This Week’s Greatest Hits from the Young & Hungry Blog
I could cull this list from Google Analytics, which would be oh-so-democratic. It would also prove to you the power of popular search terms, the insular nature of the blog world, and the insatiable need for more Elvis sex tales. Screw that. Here’s my personal fave list of this week’s blog items:
1. Chef Art Smith Does Brunswick Stew
2. One Dude Who Will Never Join PETA
3. Taqueria Distrito Federal II Adds a Little Color to Kennedy St.
4. Reagan Airport Still Sucks for Healthy Food
5. Whole Foods Wants to Sell You Shrimp for Thanksgiving
6. Lunch Call: Eat at Jackson’s Roasting and Carving Co.
7. Not So Fast: Neighborhood Restaurant Group Not a Partner in Eatonville
8. Song Que Moves Into the Old Four Sisters Space
Song Que Moves Into the Old Four Sisters Space
When the Lai family decided to close its signature restaurant, Huong Que/Four Sisters, in the Eden Center this year and move to the more mainstream environs of Merrifield, it left a rather gaping hole at the Vietnamese shopping center in Falls Church. The store fronts that face the parking lot at the Eden Center are coveted positions, the kind of places that businesses located inside the grungy center would kill for (or at least maim for). Fortunately for the Lai clan, they still controlled the lease on the Huong Que space, and they knew exactly what they wanted to do with it: shift their cramped deli, Song Que, into the significantly larger spot.
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