PROFILE: Philly Luncher “Brad”
As is customary at Philly Lunch, every Tuesday we turn over the site to a different lunch’er for his or her recommendations for the best lunch in Philadelphia. This week, it’s Brad, who is seeking spicy food to put in his mouth when he isn’t fixing the mouths of others.
Name: Brad
Age: 28
Occupation: Orthodontist
Where in Philly do you Work?: Harleysville at the present time. My lunch advice comes from the 6.25 years I spent at Penn and Temple.
Favorite Kind of Food: Thai
Least Favorite Kind of Food: Flan
Favorite Place(s) to Eat Lunch in Philly: It is absolutely impossible to go wrong with the Village Whiskey (118 S 20th St) burger. After extensive sampling of nearly every burger in this city, I have deemed this one to be my favorite.
If you live in Philadelphia and haven’t been to Han Dynasty (108 Chestnut St) yet, you have made a terrible mistake. Here’s what you are going to do: Take a party of 3 for lunch to Han Dynasty. Order the spicy cucumber and Dan Dan noodle appetizers. Order the three cup chicken as a main course. You will all share these three items. Pay the bill. Enjoy your newly fulfilled life.
Paesano’s II (901 Christian St) has, all-around, the greatest sandwiches in Philly. The Paesano and Gustaio sandwiches are to die for…well, maybe not to DIE for. That is a little extreme. They are definitely worth going far out of your way for, though.
“Go-To” Lunch Place You and Your Coworkers Eat at Too Often? Tacos Don Memo (3800 Sansom St). This my favorite food truck in the world. I recommend the steak torta, spicy. If you do not call ahead, you will be waiting an absurd amount of time to receive food. Here, I will make this easy for you – (610)529-2039
Place you discovered thanks to Philly Lunch (if any) Misconduct Tavern. They have a pretty great mac n’ cheese.
If you could work anywhere (just because of the lunch) where would it be and why? The Lower East Side/East Village, New York City. It seems that the streets of this area just spawn high-quality restaurants on a weekly basis. From the meat pies of Tuck Shop to the arepas of Caracas to the mac n’ cheese of Westville, it really serves my purposes perfectly(my purposes being “be a glutton” and “experience a variety of restaurants”). I treasure any opportunity to turn food from this area into parts of my body.
Is there anything you’d like to ask the Philly Lunch readers? What is the spiciest food in Philadelphia that isn’t found at Han Dynasty?
I like that question, the mapo tofu at 4 Rivers is blazing and the dan dan noodles at Red Kings are chock full of Szechaun peppercorn. Take your pick.
If you would like to be next week’s Profiled Philly Lunch’er (or know somebody you’d like to nominate), email me at jamie@midtownlunch.com
Posted by Jamie at 10:40 am, January 25th, 2011 under PROFILE: Philly Lunch'er.
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I think my favorite spicy dish in Philly is the Beef Tendon cold appetizer at Nan Zhou. I remember it being pretty spicy, but I’m not sure if it will be up to your spicy standards.
Also, since you love Don Memo’s cart, you should make the trip to 69th and Market where they have their full shop. The food is even better than the cart, it’s a BYO (they put triple sec in the margarita’s!), and they grind the guacamole in a mortar and pestle table-side.
Shout out to my current neighborhood! (I live right near Westville East)
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What!? I had no idea Tacos Don Memo had an actual restaurant. I feel like such a fool. I feel like I will die if I don’t have that guacamole.
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Yes, definitely Aubre. It is AMAZING. Mexican lady rolls out a cart with avocados, onion, cilantro, garlic, etc slices up the avocado and grinds it all together in the mortar and pestle. Just awesome. I was in Philly last weekend and tried to make a trip there on a Saturday night but they were busy and I was too hungry to wait and ended up returning to my other favorite Mexican in Philly, El Jarocho.
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I love avocadaos, I love cilantro, I LOVE CARTS!! El Jarocho is great, too. I want people to stop learning about it though so that it never gets too busy on a Saturday night. Shhhh!
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yep Fred, it is the right photo. It was taken from an album cover that I put together:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/maximalism2Winston, I am 100% going to check out the Tacos Don Memo restaurant. I know there is a void in my life and I must fill it with Don Memo’s food.
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It’s been awhile since I tried something spicy.
Try here:
Jong Ka Jib Soft Tofu Restaurant
6600 N 5th St Philadelphia, PA 19120. (215) 924-0100Get the tofu soup, ask for very spicy… I think very spicy is the highest on the list.
there’s a h-mart in elkins park:
905 High School Road, Cheltenham. they have a food court that sell korean chicken. One of the option is spicy korean chicken..a bit expensive but i think that was spicy… I can’t remember. -
of forgot, if you go to Jong Ka Jib Soft Tofu and order the soft tofu soup, and you went there without ever eating korean soft tofu, they will serve you a raw egg with the ban chan. Save the egg for the soft tofu soup. Crack the egg, into the soup, the moment they serve you the tofu soup.
I have a few friends who didn’t know what the egg was for…
The profile is light and amusing.
The pic…..uhm…..well…….
Are you sure you posted the right pic for this guy, Fressa?