Lunch at Tu Lan
Tu Lan is beautifully lively and yet no one is in your face the way they are in some too-crowded restaurants. Service is fast and never intrusive. I noticed the staff knew many people in the lunch crowd by name and could just hand their take-out orders over automatically. It’s important to me, too, that a restaurant not be an echo chamber and in Tu Lan despite the crowds, I could hear my own conversation.
Hot chicken soup and vietnamese ice coffee drip for me; coffee and spring rolls and bbq pork for Debbie; with tip we paid 20 bucks.
What a great place!
But more than restaurants, 6th and Market is about the people and I’ll post about them in a few minutes, separately.
OK I have to say this about Tu Lan: I was there with my friend Miranda, and a cockroach fell on her long, blond hair, as she waslooking down at her plate. I had the misfortune of sitting across from her. The cockroach was highlighted against that pale sheen of hair.
I love the food at Tu Lan. I’d eat cat shit if it was cooked in their kitchen, something about the wok they use and the coconut milk, everything is extremely tasty.
Anna is very poetic… And yet… I agree with Frankzappa. I would probably eat cockroach soup if those guys at Tu Lan cooked it. At least the broth.