Bo Lui (Grilled Beef) Appetizer
Item Purchased: Bo Lui (Grilled Beef) Appetizer
Location Purchased: The House of Noodle / 1063-1065 W. Argyle / Chicago, IL
Price: $4.25 + tax
Review: Vietnamese Cuisine has so much meat in it! My friend James purchased a bowl of noodle soup that had almost every part of the cow in it... including tripe! With over eighty things on the menu and nearly seventy of them beef-based, I decided that when in Little Vietnam... and began with a beef appetizer.
This appetizer comes with two beef skewers on a bed of lettuce, served with a side of cucumber slices and fish sauce. The beef was so heavily marinated that it was a shiny greasepaint red. Subtlety and beef are not two concepts I place side by side, so this teriyaki-tasting beef stick was a perfect warm-up to get me ready for the further carnage that was about to ensue. Especially tasty was the method for eating these beef bits that James walked me through. First, take a healthy chunk of de-skewered cow, wrap it inside of a lettuce leaf along with a cucumber slice and dip it in fish sauce before gnawing. How the Vietnamese consider something this heavy and spanning of the food groups an appetizer, I'll never know. I do know that I would order this dish again, despite not being beef's number one fan.
Rating: 3.75 / 5
Location Purchased: The House of Noodle / 1063-1065 W. Argyle / Chicago, IL
Price: $4.25 + tax
Review: Vietnamese Cuisine has so much meat in it! My friend James purchased a bowl of noodle soup that had almost every part of the cow in it... including tripe! With over eighty things on the menu and nearly seventy of them beef-based, I decided that when in Little Vietnam... and began with a beef appetizer.
This appetizer comes with two beef skewers on a bed of lettuce, served with a side of cucumber slices and fish sauce. The beef was so heavily marinated that it was a shiny greasepaint red. Subtlety and beef are not two concepts I place side by side, so this teriyaki-tasting beef stick was a perfect warm-up to get me ready for the further carnage that was about to ensue. Especially tasty was the method for eating these beef bits that James walked me through. First, take a healthy chunk of de-skewered cow, wrap it inside of a lettuce leaf along with a cucumber slice and dip it in fish sauce before gnawing. How the Vietnamese consider something this heavy and spanning of the food groups an appetizer, I'll never know. I do know that I would order this dish again, despite not being beef's number one fan.
Rating: 3.75 / 5
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