@Hungrydrunk is right. While it is crispy, it’s not entirely hard shell. It’s a TexMex/San Antonio thing where they take tortilla dough and press it into a tortilla and fry it in a basket to give it the shape. It is much airier and lighter than a traditional hard shell taco.
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Gotcha. Never really had a taco in this type of shell. But we’re not going tonight. Google Maps says 35 minutes with traffic right now.
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I bet you were so sad when Portsmouth closed down. At least you kind of have a central location between OC/LA.
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can happily recommend the al pastor tacos from el taco llama. hard shell taco of the gods.
Heartbroken.
The same Portsmouth location is now Crooked Gaff Kitchen…still an oyster bar, but with more other non-seafood items. I haven’t had enough time to make my way over to try it. Supposedly, there’s a lot of the same staff front and back of the house as before.
the fried egg salad (#48) at ruen pair is tremendously good.
for me:
i’m really happy that badmaash and G&B are close to work; and that beer belly, wako and sun nong dan and langer’s are near home.
things i wish were closer: cassia, sidecar.
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I’ll trade you Cassia for Langer’s. 
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+1. I like and respect Cassia, but I LOVE Langer’s pastrami (and the fries extra crispy!). ::sigh::
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Restaurants close to me that I’m happy about.
All of these are a 15 minute or less bike ride.
Revolutionario Tacos
Chichen Itza
Holbox
Honeybird USC
Tire Shop Taqueria
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what exactly is the ground pork with chinese olives? I asked a waitress once about it and she recommended that we not get the dish. It didn’t seem like she didn’t think we could handle it but more that the dish wasn’t good.
And response to closest happy restaurants:
Thankful for being close:
Raku
tasty noodle house
Ta eem
luv2eat
Wish was closer:
Everything in SGV and torrance
Bestia
Gjusta
Holbox
East LA mexican food
Living in Vegas, I probably shouldn’t participate in this thread, but I just want to say that I feel very fortunate to be in the same city with Lotus of Siam, even if we live over 12 miles away.
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This is probably her deciding you wouldn’t like it unilaterally. The dish is exactly what it sounds like, and it’s delicious, especially with rice. Here’s a pic from someone else in another thread.
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I’m not sure there’s anything else. Maybe some oil if the pork isn’t fatty enough to fry by itself.
http://foodtalkcentral.com/t/ruen-pair-thai-comforts/4602/57
i suspect that no one from the SGV has commented so as not to make everyone else feel bad about it, but there is no one place when you live near the s. pas/alhambra border and you have options like the sun nong dan breakfast special at $6.99, the pork chop rice at old country cafe until midnight, the beef roll at zui xiang yuan (the old flavor garden), the noodles at liang’s, banh mi from banh mi my tho. golden deli, embassy kitchen, etc. all within a 10 minute drive. bulgarini’s is about 12 minutes. fosselmann’s half of that. i haven’t even mentioned dim sum yet. went back to carnitas el momo last friday. less than 15 minutes just taking huntington to soto.
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you really can’t have porn without pics:
sun nong dan:
do ga ni tang
zui xiang yuan
beef roll
for the heck of it i tried their pork chop rice which wasn’t up to OCC standards but it did include kimchi and they mixed their pickled veggies in with the rice, if that’s your kind of thing.
but i still prefer
old country cafe
pork chop rice
liang’s kitchen
lamb noodle soup
banh mi my tho
announcing their new location
i get sandwiches there so often i don’t always document them. here’s a pic from late last year (and probably the only pic that wasn’t taken in 2018)
#8 BBQ pork
carnitas el momo:
two with everything, a little heavy on the skin, but still tasty
bulgarinis:
pear marscapone cheese and plum
ding’s garden
four item cold plate
cluck2go
hainan chicken rice
shanghai dumpling house
XLB
and these are just the places i’ve revisited since the end of 2017. i’m going to have a smoke and shower myself off.
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Dan Tana’s
Sotto
According to yelp, Song Phat is closed. Able to verify?
shit! nooooooo… i got to find the owner to see what’s up.