Losing Soup

Brooklyn, NY - CartLegger - Sunday, April 1st, 2007 : goo

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When you latch onto something good in NYC, you have to hold on tight. That goes all the more for Chinese food. And for my wife and I, hot and sour soup. Its just so amazingly different at every different cheap take out place. While in most, it amounts to spicy snot,in quite a few, its an essential treat.

We lost the best one two years ago, a rich red Szechuan concoction with shredded pork, form Best Wok at Fulton and Lafayette. That was hard. For weeks, I'd find myself going back, checking the shuttered doors to see that, maybe just maybe, it was a renovation or health dept. problem. But it was curtains, steel curtains. And now some boutique.

Two years later, its no easier with Egg Roll. Not only was their food a comfort, but the delivery guy, too--who I am sure was probably not documented, but still inspired. I saw this guy learn English over the last year, it seems.

Now, up in flames...will they return, I ask, my foodie wondering but one footnote in this big city of constant change. But I was really hopeing to have some nice hot and sour soup.

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