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| - Heard about this place through family, and finally tracked it down in the middle of Shark Week for lunch, which consisted of apple soda (excellent and natural sugar) a steamed bun burger with cheddar cheese inside the burger, and a delicious apple barbecue sauce (i think the menu said ketchup, but this was better), and one of the more And Den Sum type items they've sold; the Shark Week Sammich. Thats pretty much a clue into the general attitude of the chefs and menu.
Second visit was a late night run consisting of Lychee juice and a pulled pork sandwich with pickled corn on slightly dry toasted cornbread (tasted fine) that i'd normally find overwhelming, but its perfect late night food.
Third was the Unagi Burger with grassfed beef burger, unagi (tasty itty bitty eels) aioli (or however its spelled), wonderfully crisp and clean pickled cucumbers, and daikon radish sprouts. I was planning to get the chicken and waffles taco, like some other people, but it was broken, unfortunately so I switched to the burger. Long story short, its the best burger and sandwich I've ever eaten, and I get all misty eyed whenever I think about it.
Overall these guys make absolutely excellent americana cuisine with some utterly graceful asian touches, and its definitely worth the risk to skip over something safe sounding like the PBLT for some of their more exotic sounding offerings which are easily the best things I've eaten. Moreover, they make some of the best and most interesting veggie dishes (sorry Tommy's) and disprove any naysayers about the blandness of vegetarian cooking. Despite the high end sounding ingredients, it all tastes so familiar and is most definitely worth the adventure.
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