Stall #2: Mr Duck Vermicelli Soup
I’ve been back, and @Dean’s reco
was, as one might expect, rock solid (although, given the profusion of “duck parts” perhaps wobblingly solid).
For fourteen bucks you get a bunch of stuff I’ll detail below. You can choose between all-offal or offal + duck meat. I chose the latter. There were, in addition to five hefty strips/chunks of duck meat on the bone, cuboids of duck blood, liver, kidney, and thin slices of some dark organish, slightly chewy meat I couldn’t identify. Duck hearts are small, I’m told, and this wasn’t duck tongue. Are there parts I’m not thinking of?
That aside, it was a splendid soup. All the meats I mentioned, plus bok choy, fried tofu, and noodles, with chili oil and cilantro. My superlatives about this place might be getting superfluous now, but: Terrific.
I’ve also tried their cold chicken in chili oil, also splendid, and their fried rice.
To introduce lukewarm reality into my paean, that was a bit of a letdown. At any other place it would have counted as very good, but by the standards here it was marginally decent. Of the various versions on offer I tried pork with pickled greens. There were only specks of the greens, and the rice slightly gummy.
