Saturday, October 8, 2011

A roast pork PSA (Wah Fung)

Finally got the large...

Not that this really needs reiterating, but I fucking love Chinese roast pork. Not just any roast pork from Chinatown will do though, it has to be from Wah Fung - home of magically delicious maltose soy sauce glazed fatty pork that doubles as a nightmare for my bowels. Not to rehash anything I've already said in my old post, but basically this is both a value play as well as something that just tastes straight dope. With a side bonus of playing Russian roulette with the toilet. What more could you ever ask for? Maybe the large order. Which is why I wanted to make a public service announcement - at the risk of increasing the already ridiculous wait time - their large roast pork over rice is easily the deal of the century.

So much pork

In my original post, I thought this was a hella good deal already. Look at all that goddamn meat, and all for $3. It just didn't make sense - how was this tiny little shop in Chinatown surviving on margins that couldn't possibly exist? Then, one day I decided to step up my game... man up and order the large roast pork over rice i.e. the monstrosity you see at the top. At a price only 50% more than the small, you easily get two to three times the amount of food. Asian bro-homeslice at the shop basically lays down a carpet of rice, packs that shit down real good and begins the magic of meat chopping. Exactly like the miniature box of roast meat, you just watch him transfer hand after hand of glistening pork into the box, constantly wondering how the fuck he's going to close that shit. And when you think he can't possibly put more in, he'll stuff some extra roast chicken or Chinese sausage in... for good measure. After all is said and done, basically when he realizes he actually can't close the lid of the box, he grabs a handful of rubberbands and jerry-rigs the fuck out of it until he forces it into delightful submission. I love you man, and everything you stand for. Anyway, I just wanted people to know that something this awesome exists in Chinatown. That's all.

PS - in case you haven't noticed yet... I've become a really shitty blogger as of late. I don't really update with any sort of regular frequency, and when I do, it's usually weak-ass posts light on content like this one - oh hai! I just wanted to note that it's hard as shit to blog when it's not your job. Mad props to all those peeps who manage to not get fired from their real jobs and moonlight doing this food writing nonsense. I am impressed. Please tell me how I can suck less yo.

4 comments:

James said...

HOLY SHITBALLS. why you gotta remind us about the IBS? i'm gonna have to man up and spin the wheel of roasted pork and toilet seat covers...

Nicholas said...

James - I played last week... and then I lost (or did I win? I'm not sure how to classify it). All I know is that 1) it appears the line grows every other time I go and 2) there is no time to apply toilet seat covers. The results are explosively disastrous.

bionicgrrrl said...

So now do you feel bad for calling me out for not blogging more than once a week?! DO YOU?!!! Haha, yeah blogging is tough when you have a job. But no job -> no money -> no eating -> no blogging. So sad.

Nicholas said...

bionicgrrl - no! I stand by what I said! I'm doing a really bad job of this blogging thing. I should be doing better. You should too haha.

Besides, it's even harder to blog when your company feeds you all the time.

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