Showing posts with label Fried Taro root. Show all posts
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Friday, August 20, 2010

Fried Taro!? - Wat Dong Moon Lek in Silverlake gets to the root of my lust.

The other night Jamie and I went to the fabulous Wat Dong Moon Lek in Silverlake (say that 3 times fast and tell me you aren't just a little inspired to wash your mouth out with soap)... and got FRIED F**KING TARO ROOT!!

I'm sorry to scream, I just, I just lost my head for a minute. He ordered it on a whim after (unbeknownst to him) I eyeballed it with lustful curiosity on the menu...



When the crispy pile arrived I knew it was going to be good, but I couldn't help but say "it looks like crab".

Not the best comment upon arrival, to be sure.

And even though the furthur I looked into the flakey, fried strips of taro that began to look like weird fake meat, or real meat or something I didn't really know I wanted to eat, I was still terribly thrilled to chomp down on them as quickly as possible. Correction: drizzle them with the ground peanut topped sex-juice that thai restaurants give you to dip stuff in, THEN chomp down.

As we ate, I remember us both kind of looking at each other like 'WHOA', and the further we didn't comprehend how it was so good, the more good it got. EUH!

I can describe it sort of like a savory, dense, chewy but light, pastry-like crunchy flakey greasy (good greasy) conncoction of potato/poi-ish tasting, sweet, rooty hybrid.

Now say that 3 times fast... :P'''

Wat Dong Moon Lek
4356 Fountain Ave,
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Neighborhood: Silver Lake