There is this EXTREMELY awesome Vietnamese dish, where the best thing I can compare it to is a hearty diner breakfast. You get a grilled pork cutlet, shredded pork, and if the place means business, a little pork/ egg/ vermicelli noodle cake. Plus rice, pickled carrots and radish, scallions, and fish sauce. There’s a fried egg over easy on top of everything. You break the yolk over top and the rice and the pork absorb it until it’s this delicious savory mess.
It’s messed up that I still don’t know the real name of this dish. I just think of it to myself as the bitchin diner breakfast. I judge places so hard on the quality of this meal. When it’s done right, it’s truly a glorious thing. And it’s usually like eight dollars.