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In Reply to: RE: THIS TOWN posted by genungo on November 6, 2016 at 17:01:49:
well, there are several establishments that all produce at least acceptable food. one place has a really good deal on a big cup of french fries, but their chicken does nothing for me, their burgers are overpriced, and their "fish sandwiches" are basically a couple of so-so fish sticks with nasty, sickeningly sweet, miracle whip based "tartar sauce".everything close by, at least, closes by 9:30 here.
"in the hood" back east, i was within walking distance of a lot of delicious foods... a REAL fish restaurant that served super delicious (east coast only) HADDOCK sandwiches on real hard rolls (can't find those anywhere here) with delicious hellman's (aka best foods) mayonaise based tartar sauce, an italian bread bakery where i could get DELICIOUS fresh made loaves including extra tasty "twice baked" round loaves on sunday almost 24/7 (they've never heard of hard rolls or italian bread here), a corner store/sub-shop where i could get almost inch thick half subs with cappicola (another thing that's very hard to get on the west coast) that were more than enough to leave one full for $3.50 if memory serves me right, and a $5 full sub was too much to eat (compared to $5 for a couple pieces of meat here and at $ubway), the corner store just around the corner had THE BEST creamy hummus i've ever had ANYWHERE including restaurants and home made, and finally, just up the block, i could get big & cheap so-so slices of pizza (with pseudo-cafeteria crusts) and GRILLED hotwings. once you've had them grilled... fried doesn't make sense anymore. i really do miss the food at least back east.
back to local though... further up the street, there's a place where i can get pretty satisfying (as a meal) and delicious grilled chicken breasts for probably $3 now as prices have gone up. they used to be a very reasonable $2.50.
i CAN also get decent, if not best ever, reasonably priced, mexican food a few blocks away 24/7 and a couple blocks closer, there's a grocery store where i can get any steaks i buy grilled for free friday - sunday nights. i never even knew that for about 3 years, but it's a really good deal that's cheaper than restaurants.
i'd rate the local restaurants as OK, but there IS a pizza shop, way on the other side of town, that has REALLY good (medium thick NY style) slices that are pretty big for $5 including a drink.
i think the local food is on the expensive side here and not quite up to the standards of the foods that are both cheaper and more delicious back east, but i don't miss uppity self centered east coast culture much either.
now, pacific northwest? OK, you can't get decent SPICY food anywhere (someone could make a lot of money bucking that trend!), and foods are almost as overpriced as here, but the culture is very laid back, people respect the environment, and women are sooooo down to earth without the annoying social climbing east coast attitude which only relates to food if you're talking about a certain type of bearded clam.
so, the french fries, a little ways away are a good deal, the grilled chicken breast on the next block is a good deal and yummy (but less so after you eat it almost every day), & the grilled steaks at the grocery store about a quarter mile away are fair priced and tasty. most of everything else is overpriced and merely OK as far as i'm concerned.
oh yeah... there's ANOTHER chinese restaurant within a mile of here that's pretty good and reasonably priced on weekdays when you get lunch specials. their kung po chicken is really good and at around $6, i think, you get a full meal out of a lunch special.
there's a vietnamese/chinese food van on the other side of town that has a REALLY yummy spicy beef fried rice that will fill you up for just $5. up the street, there's yet ANOTHER chinese place that charges about $8 for beef fried rice. i ordered it twice there. the 1st time, it was DELICIOUS, though i wish they'd used onions, but the second time, it was only OK, on the dry side, and not worth $8, especially when i'm used to $4 pints of pretty much almost anything back east where there was this one place about a mile away that used to have THE BEST szechuan tofu! it was so delicious one time, it had me literally rocking and humming happily... a perfect balance of sweet, heat, heartiness, thick sauce and chewy/crunchy textured tofu.
the place right across the street has mediocre chinese food, but a cup of their hot and sour soup is just a couple bucks and CAN be quite tasty, but in the last 2 times i've ordered it, one time, i payed AND tipped only to be told they're out (made me quite angry even after the refund as it would be in bad form to take my $1 tip back) and the second time i ordered, the woman that served me skimped big time so there was really only one piece of tofu and a shred in it where there should have been at least a dozen chunks.
given cool enough temperatures, i'd rather cook my own food.
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