need a recipe

[kdfrawg]

Lawrence is big enough, and has a sufficient university cachet, to provide a pretty good range of food. However, once you have lived in San Francisco, you will miss the variety (and sometimes the quality) almost everywhere else. New York may be the only exception. We have great Asian food in Lawrence. The steaks, surprisingly, are nothing to write home about. The barbeque is good, but you have to go to Kansas City for "excellent." We have some good Mexican food. We have sushi, but it sucks. We have generally good Japanese otherwise, though. We have excellent Italian, with one new Northern Italian restaurant that is really good. We have high-end, special occasion places for those who can afford it. We have more bar food than you would ever be able to get yourself around, assuming you wanted to. Primarily, we have inexpensive, because that's what students can afford. We do have 11 espresso places, though, and with me, that makes up for a lot.

[Diane Amberg]

 We ate in some good places in Japan Town too. We love good Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese also. We both like Kim-chi, but I'm not crazy about how the authentic stuff is made. Dandymomma, do you have a favorite Shashimi?

[kdfrawg]

There is a place in Kansas City that makes the best Phad Thai in the world, and I have eaten Phad Thai from San Francisco to Bangkok. Everybody does the Thai national dish a little differently and this place just flat wins the prize. You just never can tell.

Japan town is both good and fun. You can pretty much understand and be understood in Japan Town. As you said earlier, that is not the case in Chinatown. I worked in the Financial District (One Embarcadero Center), just below Chinatown, for a number of years and ate a couple of times a week in Chinatown with fellow adventurers. The places up a flight of stairs where there were no Caucasian faces were the best. You're right, you don't always know what you're eating, but it is always good. I especially love it when they bring a whole (usually weird-looking) fish in some kind of sauce and fillet it at the table.

[Diane Amberg]

 You mean like the ''Wah- kah" we had? It was excellent and we were pretty much done the meal, before I realized she was trying her best to say Rock Cod. Yes, Thai is good too. The best we had was in Honolulu, not too far from the big Ala Moana Shopping center... The Spam center of the world!

[kdfrawg]

Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam. Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam.

Spam, eggs, spam, and spam.

Sorry, I just couldn't help it.

And yes, Rock Cod is one odd-looking bottomfish.

To quote Utah Phillips, "It's good, though!"

[Diane Amberg]

  I learned the proper way to eat Hawaiian when we were there. We were lucky enough to have a built in family tour guide, Maxine Clark Slade, a cousin of my Mom's, who had been a  career civilian military employee, had been all over the world and retired to Honolulu. She made sure we saw the real Hawaii, not just the tourist stuff.

[kdfrawg]

That's a great way to see a place.

When I come to Howard, I expect a personal tour and to not have to just follow the guidebook.

[flo]

what guide book?

[Ole Granny]

Sounds like the same person who is going to write the column for the newspaper, had better get busy with the guide book!

[Diane Amberg]

 Hey Frawg, I've been to Lawrence several times, but not in recent years. I had thought about going to KU and as a "legacy" they would have taken me, but it was a bit big for me. Mom showed me the town and campus and I could not get over the fact  that KU had it's own hospital and museum. I assume Commanche is still in his case in the museum. I have family ties with that horse too, but that's another long story.