Eating Phở
Jun 10th, 2008 by jeremy
Our church was having a daddy daughter campout last weekend, but my work schedule prevented Sid and I from going. It didn’t really matter because the weather stopped almost everyone from going. So instead I asked what she’d like to do, and we’d go hang out for the night. After my suggestions of going to eat, going to the park, seeing a movie, etc., she said she wanted to go hang out at Barnes and Noble. That right there is proof she got some of my genes (Britnie would say her stubbornness is proof enough, I don’t know what she’s talking about.
So we headed over and found seats in the children’s section, then just read for a while. Mostly we were passing Mo Williams Mo Willems books back and forth. If you have a child between the ages of two and eight, you must read Mo Williams Mo Willems. He’s a former writer for Sesame Street, and writes some of the funniest children’s books ever. Start with Knuffle Bunny, and move on to the Pig and Elephant books. You won’t be disappointed. We laughed at books, and she ignored most of my suggestions, then she grabbed a book of mazes and we went to dinner.
Sidney is a picky eater. She’s better now than when she was younger, but still not great. Even at seven she’s still mostly a mac and cheese/peanut butter girl. But for some reason her two favorite restaurants to eat out at are the local sushi restaurant, and the best Vietnamese Restaurant in Layton, Utah. Ok, so Kim Long is the only Vietnamese restaurant in Utah. Nothing plain about those two places. We both got Phở, which is just a great simple broth soup with green onions, lime and rice noodles. Sidney ate the plain chicken version, I got the beef version with brisket and tripe. Very, very tasty. She decided the bowl as big as her head wasn’t enough, and asked for won-tons and egg rolls as well. I haven’t seen her pack away the food like that in a while, it may be time to make Phở at our house.
We had fun I’d rather go to Barnes and Noble with her than camping any time.
Our favorite restaurant for Pho is Pho Hoa in Taylorsville (there’s a Pho restaurant every two feet in Taylorsville) at Redwood and about 33rd South. Pho is one of our most favorite meals and we have been experimenting with making it at home but have yet to buy the perfect broth. If I’m ever in Layton I’ll have to check out Kim Longs.
Ah, you’re so lucky. Down in that area there’s a lot of variety in restaurants, especially Asian food. Up here we’re very limited in our choices. It’s mostly just plain generic Chinese. Next time we’re down in that area I’ll have to look for a good Pho place to try.
We’ve made it ourselves a few times, but like you said, the broth didn’t taste right.
Sam used to love to go to Barnes & Noble, too. She’d alternate between pulling books off shelves and playing with the Thomas the Tank Engine train table they always seem to have set up at those things. I’ll have to check out Mo Williams.
It sounds like the perfect night. I have been known to spend 2 or 3 hours in Barnes and Noble.
Barnes and Noble and Borders are places that I spend hours and hours and $$$$$$. What a fun night.