Took my bestie to the weekly street food market near us, where we shared a wonderfully juicy jerk chicken sammich from a Jamaican stand
and an equally juicy order of manti from an Uzbek stand,
with tender skins and slightly more heat than the jerk chicken, surprisingly. Perhaps the Lazadzhan on top?
Those all look great! I must ask - what was in the “Exotic Box”? Was that just one of everything?
My PIC did the ordering & we didn’t think to ask, but they’re a pretty steady part of the street food market, so I can find out next time we go. The chicken really was very good. I might be interested in their version of rice & peas, but I don’t care for plantains, nor need fries and bread with the chicken. TBH I could’ve even done without the roll the chicken came in 
@Amandarama: looks like the chicken, rice & peas, plantains and cole slaw 
I think I would need to take a month long nap if I ate that!
Yeah, that’s a LOT of food. I do want to get the chicken again with the rice & peas, maybe.
Also helps that my PIC and I share everything
Today’s lunchtime salad was spring mix dressed with evoo and balsamic vinegar then topped with crumbled blue cheese and toasted walnuts.
Char siu over rice at Four Seasons, Gerrard Street (Chinatown) in London. Ambience is zero, like eating in the living room of an elderly aunt who hasn’t redecorated or opened the windows since 1960. But the food is good and service is quick and friendly. £14.40 including service.
Followed by coffee at Monmouth Coffee. Nice little quiet break away from the Covent Garden crowds:
Probably the best ambiance description I’ve ever read. I can see it in my head, and almost smell it. 
(Fixed that - you can’t smell it in your head, Linda!)
Smells like cigarettes and cheap whiskey 
Arroz de bolos, Portuguese rice flour cakes, lovely light little cakes, similar to a sponge, served with strawberries and sour cream.
@Phoenikia …thanks for posting the link, I’ve been meaning to make these and had forgotten about them.
Very happy to help in any way! 
Linguine with shrimp, minced garlic, hot paprika, 2/3T TJ’s lemon pesto, herbs and fresh basil.
Salted peanut chocolate chunk ice cream with a little chocolate sauce.
Liver with bacon and onions, gravy, fries cause they didn’t have mashed potatoes, the worst “steamed vegetables “ I’ve probably ever had, I used to eat my late mom’s boiled vegetables, garlic bread and a chef’s salad with Italian dressing at fam’s favourite old school diner deep in the heart of suburbia.
Also had a slice of coconut cream pie, but wasn’t quick enough to snap a photo.
Everything was delicious, except for the disastrous vegetables .
I rarely make anything for lunch but the other day I broke down a whole beef round subprimal and got about 2 pounds of “round cap” from it.
This cut looks and tastes a lot like skirt steak, so I marinated it and turned it into some really tasty beef fajitas. Had some IttyBittyPittyCommittee avocados (the pits were smaller than the last segment of my thumb) for guac, and the usual bell peppers and onions alongside.
The butcher counter guy mentioned this use of the “cap” to me when I bought the whole round - mostly I break down a round for making biltong from the bottom round and a couple of beef roasts from the eye and top round for sandwiches, a bit of grind, and some stew meat.
I’d never paid attention before now to that flap of cap on top before now, but it’s definitely different than the rest of the round and worth preserving whole.
