Some meat for the road

My sister had her cesarean scheduled for Friday morning. On Wednesday afternoon, my mom called me and asked me to drive her up to see my sister that night. So I called my sister and told her we were coming up that evening, and she immediately said, "I want steak!".

???

"I don't know when I will be able to eat it again, so I want steak!"

Okay. Don't mess with a pregnant woman. I guess it wouldn't have been so hard if I too could eat steak.

(side note: I realize I've been talking about not eating meat so much lately and I apologize. I don't even remember how long I've been doing this - giving up meat for the entirety of Lent, at least 5 years I know - but it seems as if the desire for meat this year has increased from the years past. So, note to self - this might be the last year...)

So we arrive to my sister's house and she is hungry and ready to go to dinner. Her husband suggests KT Cafe as it is one of his regular spots. When I say regular, I mean every Thursday night after he and his buddies play basketball for who knows how many years.

KT Cafe is technically a Chinese restaurant, I would say, but not the traditional kind. Located in Monterey Park on Garvey Ave (between Garfield and Atlantic), KT Cafe is the super late night (I.e. Closes at 4am) Chinese restaurant cafe that serves a hodgepodge of foods that have all sorts of different origins.

So back to my brother-in-law. He and his buddies are such regulars, that when he told the waitress, "We had this one soup the other night," she immediately responds with, "Do you want to order that tonight?" and he says yes. No where in the conversation did the actual soup name or description come up, but it did come out. And to be honest, I don't know what it was, just that it has fish in it. At least I think it did.



My sister, instead of a full steak, decided on the Bo Luc Lac - cubes "shaking" beef that has been pan-fried quickly (and in this case, with onions and bell peppers) and served with a bed or red rice (steamed riced fried up with tomato paste). I wish I could have had a try.



I browsed the non-meat menu and decided to go with the Indo Chow Fun (I think that's what they called it) but without meat. It was good. Thick fresh rice noodles pan-fried with been sprouts, green onion and other little veggies and chili (think pad see ew from a Thai place)... And what got me was the sunnyside-up egg topping the plate of noodles.


It was quite tasty and satisfied me. But it still wasn't a steak.

- Posted mobile-y (please excuse the typos!)