The Sriracha Man cometh!
Look out people, the Srirach Man is making a comeback for one night only. That’s actually me and Tim (Poleng Lounge) from Halloween of last year but you have no idea how much the ladies (& the men) love the Rooster Sauce, I decided it was due for a comeback. In case you missed it, Sriracha is a totally Asian American phenomenon.
Here’s the menu for Saturday night:
Wasabi Potato Salad with snap peas, chives, tatsoi - $4.5
Grilled Blue Point oysters with scallion pork fat and pepper lemon sauce - $9 Red braised oxtails with king mushroom and daikon fettucine, shitake and scallions - $12.5 Soft shell crab curry “bun rieu” with confit tomatoes; accompanied by a choice of vermicelli glass noodles or garlic bread - $13 Bacon, coconut and pineapple fried rice - $7 King Trumpet - mushroom with tripled-fried potato, garlic confit and charred scallion sour cream on a homemade flatbread - $6 Lung Shan’s Vegan Delight - shitake and oyster mushroom dumplings in miso soup - $5.5 Lychee and Banana Cream Napoleon - $5 Humphry Slocombe Blue Bottle Vietnamese Coffee Ice Cream - $3.25 per scoop
The Soft Shell Crabs and the Bacon Fried Rice are my dishes. The curry recipe has been a favorite of mine since coming back from Hong Kong and trying to replicate an awesome Chinese adaptation of a Vietnamese recipe. The bacon fried rice was an improvisation at home that is really a no-brainer. Who doesn’t love bacon? I know, I’m totally late on the internet Bacon Craze.
Speaking of internets, we had a weird comment from a young lady at this special event in downtown SF as I was manning the Korean Taco Stand with my friends from LREcatering/kitchenetteSF, “What? Korean tacos without Kimchee? Total FAIL!” Just a note mentally, internet speak doesn’t work in social situations in real life and leads to awkward conversations after. By the way, you mispronounced Kimchee for a real Korean too…”IT’S A Korean TACO!!!!” get a sense of humor. Big ups to the Kogi Truck in LA.
Our proceeds are going to Community Educational Services & the Chinatown Beacon Center, a fantastic youth development organization that I used to work with in Chinatown and North Beach. In the long run, I’d love to start a youth cooking program there to teach kids how to cook on their own as well as learn the basics of Chinese cuisine. Can you imagine if you brought in their parents and other community members to teach them how to make traditional Chinese dishes? How awesome of an exchange would that be?
We’re still taking orders for t-shirts. Send me an email if you want one: leonard(a)kitchenstink.com.
