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You know you have had real Thai food when . . .

S.W. Corner of 49th and 9th. The restaurant is imaginatively called, Real Thai Food. Good stuff, cash only, take out takes a while.

Okay, it’s officially meat week on BAB. Someone, probably Brendon, ran across a pictorial on a guy who ate a 20×20 In and Out Burger and sent it to me when I lived in Cali. I remembered it after I ran across the burger article I posted yesterday.

The nice thing about In and Out is that you can order a burger any way you want. The bad thing is some people seem to take this way to literally. On a good day, I can pound one Double-Double, a Cheeseburger (for a total of ¾ of a pound of beef) and a large order of fries, but a 20×20 is insane. Check out the picture:

A full account of the event in pictures can be found here. Be careful, if you view it and you are a meat lover, you may lose your taste for beef for a few days.

Is there any food more worthless on the face of the earth than celery? I have eaten everything from live octopus, to dog soup, to rocky mountain oysters (and would eat each again) but I have never understood the purpose of celery. I was thinking about this when I finished my Chinese noodles the other day. How many of you have a plate or carton that looks like this when you are done?

Where else kind can you find thought provoking insights like this?

A visit to Korea Town in Manhattan is a weekly grocery shopping ritual for us. It’s a ritual so ingrained that we pretty much make a B-line for the Han Ah Reum Grocery store and ignore everything else around. On a recent trip we were hungry and it’s never a good idea to go grocery shopping hungry so we decided to take a look around. We discovered a new gem – Woorijip (rough translation, Our House). We are not too sure how new they are, we did not ask. Maybe they have been around a while and we just did not notice.

Woorijip sells prepared food that has been packaged and is ready to eat and also features a wonderful buffet and noodle bar. The prices are very reasonable and the selection is excellent. They have a few tables and chairs set up so you can eat in and not have to worry about dealing with wait staff or paying a tip. You can also just grab your grub and go.

It’s located at 12 W. 32nd Street in the middle of Korea Town on the south side of the street (between 5th and 6th). If you have not ventured into the world of Korean food you are missing out and this is an inexpensive and easy way to introduce yourself to possibly the most nationalistic cuisine in the world. If you get hooked on Kimchee, you will never go back – you have been warned.