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enzomatic · Post by **enzomatic** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:18 am

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I went with the local Vespa club for a ride today, we ended up at the Tu Vien Kim Son Monastery, it's a huge beautiful Vietnamese temple and monastery surrounded by redwoods about 1300 feet up in the Santa Cruz mountains. We kind of stumbled upon it and they were very very nice there, asked us a bunch about the scoots and our ride up the mountain, then offered us a tour and free delicious Vietnamese food. Def scooting there again.

BigColdMartini · Post by **BigColdMartini** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:42 am

Excellent! My roomy in college was from Vietnam and had endured terrible hardships with his family escaping the country in the late 70's. I remember him taking me to his home for family meals and fixing stuff in the dorm. Some of it was really good and some of it was an aquired taste. I remember just snacking on dried cuttlefish straight out the bag and creative ways to doctor-up Raman noodles.

Sounds like you had a great ride and some good memories.

r0sa · Post by **r0sa** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:53 am

doctoring up ramen noodles as in put eggs in them?
if you haven't tried, it is quite yummy!

sailortot · Post by **sailortot** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:03 am

mmmm... pho

wish i had some right now.

r0sa · Post by **r0sa** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:19 am

PHO is so0o good! i want some

enzomatic · Post by **enzomatic** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:28 am

yeah pho would have been great, too bad it was a vegetarian monastery. Forgot to mention that after the ride we all met up at il motorino in SC to meet R. Black, he is a big scooter advocate and does lots of scooter art, covers for scoot magazine, fliers for scoot events, and a lot of concert posters. He signed his new book for me and we talked a while about this southern california vespa group "The Pharaohs" that I used to know people from about 12 years ago.
http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/14-659/F ... R-Black-HC
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Pekabou · Post by **Pekabou** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:52 pm

that is awesome.

TheeSadTransmissions · Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:51 pm

The only acceptable way to augment Ramen is with this stuff.

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bunny · Post by **bunny** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:38 pm

It HAS to be true Asian ramen for it to be authentic...none of that $.25 stuff from the grocery.

Kung Fu brand Onion flavor is my favorite.

enzomatic · Post by **enzomatic** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:37 pm

stir frying it definitely, I sometimes make my own peanut sauce for it, cook it with some greens too. that got me through college.

Piedmont · Post by **Piedmont** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:45 pm

Best. Restaurant. Name. Evar.
http://whatthepho.net/

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:39 pm

Stopped by the Asian grocery last night on the way home...picked up the fixin's for homemade pho. The meatball kind. Fresh cilantro, bean sprouts, green onions, limes...

I'm gonna eat GOOD tonight!

r0sa · Post by **r0sa** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:36 pm

bunny, im jealous, ship me so pho PLEASE!!!!!

btw, are you vietnamese?

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:05 pm

r0sa wrote:btw, are you vietnamese?

Yessiree Tuan!

I can't think of what the Vietnamese alternative to 'Bob' would be...nor 'Robert' So I went with 'Tuan' = Tony...

BigColdMartini · Post by **BigColdMartini** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:33 pm

Hey Bunny,

The Kung Fu brand is one of the best, I like the beef flavor with extra green onions and a hard boiled egg. What part of Vietnam is you family from? My roommate was from the Cam Ranh Bay area.

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:54 pm

BigColdMartini wrote:Hey Bunny,

The Kung Fu brand is one of the best, I like the beef flavor with extra green onions and a hard boiled egg. What part of Vietnam is you family from? My roommate was from the Cam Ranh Bay area.

My mom's family is from Saigon, my dad's family is from Central and North Vietnam (I don't know where). I was born in San Fran (how cliched) and moved to Texas when I was 3 months old...so I've got a 'real' Texas twang that you can hear when I speak Vietnamese!

I <3 Kung Fu brand Onion flavor! Picked up a case of it last night! Oh, and there's this Japanese style Udon that is out of this world! YUM!

enzomatic · Post by **enzomatic** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:31 am

there are no asian markets in the santa cruz area, but over the hill there are thousands in san jose. I usually have to stock up like crazy at any 99 ranch I find.

Piedmont · Post by **Piedmont** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:05 pm

enzomatic wrote:there are no asian markets in the santa cruz area, but over the hill there are thousands in san jose. I usually have to stock up like crazy at any 99 ranch I find.

No kidding, San Jose has a Daiso. I'm Jealous.

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:12 pm

And can I just say...dinner last night was FANTASTIC!

It ended all too soon.

PinkScoot · Post by **PinkScoot** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:48 pm

ommmmm

Ray Knobs · Post by **Ray Knobs** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:14 pm

I love this stuff. Luckily i live 5 minutes from the Dino BBQ

TheeSadTransmissions wrote:The only acceptable way to augment Ramen is with this stuff.

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