From Mangosteen to Bunny Chow

Mangosteen is still the best. It's half the price of the Slanted Door and after one bowl of Garlic Noodles you can slay a vampire at five hundred yards.



The Shaking Beef isn't quite as good as Slanted Door, but it's also $8.95 instead of $24.95. Mangosteen is in Little Saigon (Larkin and Turk Streets) and is packed at all hours, for good reason.



Now we come to Bunny Chow.



The Plotniks ate Bunny Chow in Durban, South Africa. As you can see, it's a hollowed-out loaf of bread with the inside part of the bread stuck back on top (it's called the virgin), and the cavity filled with mutton or lamb or beef or veggie curry. You order a quarter (loaf), half or whole, and you find it in shops all over Durban and Johannesburg. How does it taste? Well, it's not great, but it's kind of fun to eat, with your family, once.

Plot was thinking about Bunny Chow yesterday, so he googled it, and found there is a film called Bunny Chow playing at the San Francisco Film Festival, and it was playing last night. So he and Duck and some friends went to see it.

How is the film? Exactly like the food -- not great, not very well done, kind of fun to see, maybe, with friends, once. You wouldn't want seconds.