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| - I've loved David Chang for years and have had a ball watching Ugly Delicious this spring. So obviously a visit to Momofuku Las Vegas was on my list of Vegas activities...
We arrived during Social Hour at 5:10pm and opted to be seated immediately on the bar facing the kitchen. I wondered allowed (in total dismay) at where the mussels were on the menu, and someone in the kitchen shared that they are of course served at dinner (starting at 5:30pm) and not during Social Hour.
We were in a time crunch (and not because we were trying to keep within the complimentary parking that ends after 1 hour -after that, up to 4 hours is $7 at the Cosmopolitan- so stay, enjoy your meal of course, but if you have somewhere else to be as we did, save that $7 for an extra bun!) as we had somewhere else to be, so I was concerned we might end up mussel-less which is pretty "weak" sounding... ;-)
Alas, the same gentleman in the kitchen replied when I asked if we could be any chance order them early, "well, sure. Tell them I said its ok." WHEW! Thanks dude!
The mussels were amazing....
REPEAT: ORDER THE MUSSELS. STAT.
**Dry Roasted Mussels - benton's bacon, momofuku furikake
This is just genius. BACON + MUSSELS (or MUSSELS + BACON - whatever) it's just a pairing that should have preceded PB&J and Bacon+Eggs. (Or Bacon + anything. It should have been Mussels first).
Smoky. Amazing.
We also had the spicy chilled noodles- GET THESE TOO! We'd like them a bit spicier next time, but that's a small quibble for the genius of sichuan sausage with cashew and jalapenos + thai basil. (PS- it says "candied" but ours didn't seem candied and we prefer it un-candied, so it was amazing the way it was.
**Chilled Spicy Noodles - sichuan sausage, thai basil, candied cashew
And of course we had a pork belly bun. Could have had 10. 2 nice little slices of pork belly in a little bun with hoisin sauce. A little cucumber and scallion completing the taste perfectly. Executed with such ease. I really could have eaten about 3 of these and called it a day (except there are too many cool things on the menu)
**Pork Belly bun- hoisin, scallion, cucumber
Well done, David Chang, and gang.
Shaun King, I'd like to shake your hand (except your hands have better things to do).
And all you folks in the kitchen who are chopping and assembling food and making this happen- thanks. You are seen and noticed and awesome. Thank you for coming to work every day. Your work is incredibly tasty (and how many of us can get that sort of compliment about our work? ;)
Can't wait to visit on my next Vegas trip!
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