A Trip to Uncle's Restaurant

Every Sunday morning my parents go out together to eat at my Uncle's restaurant (my dad's younger brother). There are two of them, one located in Rosemead and one in San Gabriel. Once in a while I'll go with them. I guess it could be comparable to Eat, Drink, Man, Woman and how we as a family have this brunch every Sunday morning. Some days I'll choose to take part, some days I won't. They usually go around 9am but I'm still sleeping, being the lazy person that I am.

Today my parents were busy with running errands, so my friends and I decided to take a trip to the Rosemead location and eat there. I was eating with three other friends. One of the three eats there occasionally, while I am familiar with the place naturally. The other two have never been and were both Korean. I thought it was going to be interesting to see if they liked the food or not. It is always difficult to get another Asian culture to enjoy the other. I think a lot of people like Chinese food though, so I hoped for the best.

The restaurant focuses on Taiwanese style noodles. They have a huge variety of noodle dishes. Today there was a special, "Curry Soup Noodles with Lamb". This has always been a favorite of mine, so I ordered it. The other three stuck with the first page of the menu, which was a chicken broth noodle soup with meat varieties. The place is usually packed on the weekends, but for some reason it wasn't that filled up today.


Our food conversation was typical. We did start talking about a hot sauce known as Sriracha though. I'm sure you've heard of it. It's cool too cause their factory is based in Rosemead (the city we were in). What a great sauce to accompany any type of food! I'm proud to be Asian cause of Sriracha haha. I kept turning around to the table behind me because there were 'non-Asians' enjoying the food. One of them was eating a dish called "Sate" which is a very, very spicy noodle dish. When you eat it you can just see all the red peppers in the dish. I like it, but a lot of the time I need a lot of water to drink after. The guy eating it wasn't even drinking water though, it was cool. I took a picture of their table, but I guess the guy saw me so he's looking at the camera.


One of my Korean friends didn't really enjoy it. He kept picking at the meat and said he didn't like the 'texture'. He finished all the noodles and a lot of the ligaments and random meat types were leftover. He liked the soup a lot though. The other Korean drove out from Hollywood, so he met with us when we finished eating already.


And here I am holding up my empty bowl and a cup of iced tea. It was good and I'm still full!