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In PA for school: BBQ. Good TexMex. Good fried chicken fast food. There's a Chick Fil A but it's over 20 minutes away. Plus that's a bit different. I need those super calorie dense fried chicken fingers with toast or a biscuit with a tangy sauce on the side.
Chinese food up here is ok but I've had better back home. Also no express hibachi places up here which is disappointing. Also no Korean places whatsoever.
Grew up in South Central PA. Miss Lebanon bologna, blue crabs, PA Dutch chicken potpie, liverwurst, and East Coast stromboli (where the sauce is in the stromboli). And while I wouldn't trade my San Diego breweries, I grew up on Yuengling and miss it from time to time.
When I lived in Chanute, Kansas, some 36 years ago, the wife, son and I would toddle off to the local Mexican Restaurant where I would invariably order myself a Monterey. I absolutely loved these things. If I recall the base was a flat crispy flour shell (different to a taco) loaded with pork, lettuce, tomatoes, etc, (such as in taco) and topped with sour cream and hot chilli sauce. It arrived to the table on a steaming hot metal tray. I would love to try and make a Monterey myself but I can't find any trace of such a dish on the Internet to help me with ingredients. While the toppings would be easy enough to get, I seriously doubt that the flour shell would be available here (Townsville, Australia) unless at an international specialty shop.
Is anyone else familiar with this type of 'flat pork taco'?
I lived in Southern California for 20+ years and love the selection of Mexican food and restaurants there. The rice & beans, tacos, salsas, burritos and meats were excellent.
There are also restaurants there that serve pastrami sandwiches with heaps of pastrami.
I would say exactly what you just said: we too are from So. Ca. Our choice of Mexican restaurants is a joke, but we do have one favorite, only a few minutes from here that is reasonable and pretty good. I am not one for chain Mexican restaurants; they are not authentic in my estimation.
And yes, the pastrami sandwiches were so good. I also miss a really good french dip.
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