Sean Kane wrote:
>
> At 09:38 AM 5/31/02 -0700, Matt wrote:
>
> >Please tell me that they serve that special bread at your favorite
> >Mongolian BBQ restaurant and *not* flour tortillas...Please? I
> >have to regain faith after experiencing a restaurant which called
> >itself Mongolian BBQ, but was merely inspired by Mongolian BBQ.
> >
> >-- Matt
>
> Special bread? What's it like? I've only ever had tortillas as an
> option... Maybe it's a midwestern thing (or maybe the same guy owns all
> the midwestern Mongolian BBQs). Of course, I usually do at least one
> tex-mex bowl, so it works out alright for me.
The special bread I'm familiar with is flat and stiff. Maybe about 3.5"
long, 2" wide and about 1/4" thick. (I could get more exact
measurements when I go tomorrow for lunch.) It works very well for
scraping the bowl and getting all the bits you couldn't get with the
chopsticks into a bigger pile. Near the end of my meal, I scrape
together everything in the bowl and pick up some on the end of the bread
(with the chopsticks helping to pile it onto the bread), eat the end of
the bread and the stuff on it, nibble to even out the bit end of the
bread, repeat until there's nothing left in the bowl. Oh, and the bread
I'm familiar with has sesame seeds. Oh, and hot, it's a *lot* nicer
plain than a flour tortilla is.
It would be a real pain to try to scrape the bowl with a tortilla, I
think, and I *know* it's a pain to scrape it with the chopsticks. Would
I have to resort to using a (gasp!) fork under the tortilla system? And
what do you mean by a "tex-mex" bowl at a Mongolian BBQ?
Julia
