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WCDT 15-19 October 2018 (3851-3855)

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Morituri:
These names seem to go to one end of the spectrum or the other. 

On the really-really-basic end of the spectrum, I used to live in a town that had a restaurant named the Curry Bucket.

Mostly a takeaway and delivery place, although they had a small dining room.  Their specialty was, in fact, curry of various kinds, and they did, in fact, serve (and deliver) it in buckets. You'd get families coming in and sitting down and arranging their plates, and then there'd be a bucket of curry and a bucket of rice on their table and they'd dig in.

There was a small deposit for the buckets, which were stainless steel; but they were free if you exchanged them for empty ones.

I think they had to shut that practice down though because some health inspector or other noticed that somebody could use those buckets for, eg, gasoline or motor oil or arsenic or something and turn them back in, and even going through the soak, high-pressure wash, and steam cleaning there was just no way something that had been used for those things was fit to serve food in ever again.  Which, to be fair, is a good point.

Thrudd:
There are, or were, a number of Pho noodle shops in my area at one time. Most have disappeared and been replaced by various curry and Indian sweet shops.
The two that stand out in my memory were Pho'88 which was/is a chain and a mom-pop three generation establishment that soon disappeared after they sadly passed away. The grandpa made amazing spring rolls and could make em as fast as most Babas made gnocchi. Ah, it was called "Pho King Noodle".

Neko_Ali:
There is an absolute ton of Pho shops in and around Atlanta as well. Which delights me to see as pho is delicious. But it's interesting to see so many more of those sorts of specialty restaurants open up and doing so well. I suppose it's showing my age coming from a time when restaurants were at best labeled with a country of origin and most often any food from south east Asia outside of India was labeled as 'Chinese' regardless of country of origin. Now you can find not only restaurants from proper countries cuisine, but focusing on specific dishes even in relatively rural southern areas of the US.

bhtooefr:

--- Quote from: Morituri on 22 Oct 2018, 08:34 ---I think they had to shut that practice down though because some health inspector or other noticed that somebody could use those buckets for, eg, gasoline or motor oil or arsenic or something and turn them back in, and even going through the soak, high-pressure wash, and steam cleaning there was just no way something that had been used for those things was fit to serve food in ever again.  Which, to be fair, is a good point.
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Although plenty of other places use reusable containers without problems like that...

hedgie:

--- Quote from: Thrudd on 22 Oct 2018, 10:04 --- Ah, it was called "Pho King Noodle".

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There's a place around here called "Pho King 4".  I haven't been there, though, since there are plenty of food options that *aren't* on streets undergoing massive construction.

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