Duck taunters all win at Vietnam Kitchen
LEO's Eats with Robin Garr
Vit Phá Lau, the "real" duck at Vietnam Kitchen
Hey! Vietnamese Kitchen's got duck! Succulent, delicious duck, fatty and rich! And they've got "mock duck," too: an alternative invented by vegetarian Buddhist monks! Either way, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be ... well, you know.
Naturally my mind spun a Pythonesque duck-taunting fight.
REAL DUCK: Go and boil your bottoms, son of a silly duck! I blow my nose at you!
MOCK DUCK! You empty-headed animal food-trough wiper! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!
DUCK: Fetchez les canards!
Stop it! This column is getting silly.
Oh. Sorry, then. Where was I? Vietnam Kitchen! I was amazed to discover recently that our friends Anne and Don had never been to this iconic eatery. Hard to believe, I know. They may possibly have been the only remaining foodies in Louisville who hadn't been there.
We needed to correct this ASAP, so the four of us headed to the South End for Vietnamese dinner (and a foodie tour of the nearby international Valu Market).
With close to 125 dishes, most under $10 and only a few mounting to $13 or $14, it takes a while to decide.
I wonder if the menu has changed. There seem more Chinese and other non-Vietnamese dishes than I remembered. Appetizers include a number of items that strongly resemble dim sum (not that there's anything wrong with that). They also offer mooshu pork ($9.75), General Tso chicken ($9.70), lots of fried rice options, and even Pad Thai ($8.30).
No matter, we still found plenty to choose from, and most of our picks made us happy. ...
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes,
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/duck- ... am-kitchen
And in LEO Weekly:
http://www.leoweekly.com/2014/12/duck-t ... m-kitchen/
Vietnam Kitchen
Iroquois Manor
5339 Mitscher Ave.
363-7535
http://vietnamkitchen.net
Robin Garr's rating: 84 points