I had such a good weekend I feel rather flat today,
I went out to a fucking marvellous Vietnamese restaurant last night where the standout dishes were chilli squid and char-grilled pork with vermicelli. The gooks seem to favour mint in their dishes, and it really freshens and lifts the food in a way their Chinese counterparts just don't seem able to do.

I think Vietnamese tucker is going to be my 'new thing' for this year. Now I've found a BYO place in walking distance of my house that I really, really rate, I shall milk it for all it's worth.

What's your new thing?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:18, 49 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Aw Monty!
Still two threads mean twice the fun.


And in answer to your question, positive thinking.
( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:20, Reply)

Chilli squid is amazing
My local Chinese takeaway does it

My new thing is to stop being such a grumbling miserable cunt. I may have failed
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:23, Reply)

Oh stop fucking moaning for once in your fucking life.
*rolls eyes*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:25, Reply)

FUCK OFF.....
*shit, failed again*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:31, Reply)

I'm wearing a vest
I quite like it.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:24, Reply)

You are Bruce Willis AICMFP
are aren't
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:32, Reply)

I fucking wish I was John McClaine.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:33, Reply)

Think about it
fucking +fucking
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:48, Reply)

And then sing 'American Pie'?

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:53, Reply)

hahahaha

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:58, Reply)

My new thing
Is to eat less red meat.

Did that restaurant have the music of Paul Hardcastle playing quietly in the back ground?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:27, Reply)

I applaud this new thing.

( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:37, Reply)

Nope, top fucking volume.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:59, Reply)

I fucking love Vietnamese, best restaurant around here is a little over 40 miles away, I occasionally go just to get take out
so om nom nom

my new thing is being all jersey'd up, hot pink nails, black poofy hair, soon to be tan
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:30, Reply)

40 miles to get a takeout?
That is mental, mental behaviour.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:34, Reply)

technically it's 80, since it's 40 to and from
but it's so delicous :(
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:38, Reply)

That makes it even more mental.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:40, Reply)

it's worth it
it's nothing fancy, but it's very good, and you can't get anything that clean, wholesome and delicious anywhere near here
most of the restaurants are chains and the food is cooked in plastic bags or if it's cooked by hand then all of the restaurants are the same-italian or chinese, they all have the same shit, maybe a slight variation on the taste, but it's all the same
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:47, Reply)

You could open your own restaurant?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:48, Reply)

no training
although I am an awesome cook, it's not anything that would hold open a restaurant, not even my ability to make amazing salad and monster nomwiches
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:57, Reply)

o c
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:02, Reply)

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:04, Reply)

That's what it's like over there.
No corner shops or local takeaways.
( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:38, Reply)

Based on that.
If you've got a half-decent restaurant and people are happy to drive distances of 40 miles for a resonable meal, you should be making a fortune.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:41, Reply)

we have plenty of them
but it's all the shame shit, Blousie, I swear what is the point in having these restaurants that all serve the same fucking food
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:42, Reply)

I guess I'm thinking more of the folks that live in the suburbs outside of the towns.

( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:46, Reply)

we really don't have the corner shops like we used to
now it's 7-11s
My town, literally, has 6 in 9.5 square miles
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:49, Reply)

I am going to start spending less money on crap and/or budget better
so that I have more money to spend on fun things. A simple plan but a good one.
(berk, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:39, Reply)

I am experimenting with abstinence.
I no longer smoke (cigarettes), no alcohol on school nights, no 'Persians' at all and weed only at the weekend.
Three weeks and three days into this (relative) sobriety mularkey.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:43, Reply)

Hooray!
I hear abstinence makes the heart grow fonder.
( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:45, Reply)

*golf clap*

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:47, Reply)

grow fonder last longer
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:48, Reply)

That is the general idea.
Next step is getting fit. Have vowed each week to do 10 miles on the mountain bike, play badminton once, do two five mile runs and cut down on fatty foods.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:51, Reply)

I've been hitting the gym like Maddona on steroids.

( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:55, Reply)

It may dishearten you to learn that most restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City shy away from Vietnamese food
Preferring instead to cater for every possible touristy whim by providing absurdly expansive menus offering Thai, Indian, Mexican, Italian (avoid) dishes. You can certainly get Vietnamese dishes there and they're generally very good, but only to the same standard as the Chinese stuff on the same menu, and scarcely with any distinctively Viet elements.

Also; they don't have any words of more than one syllable. What's up with that?

My new thing is to flirt less. And to make statements that cause anyone reading them to splutter into their tea with incredulity
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:52, Reply)

Nooooo!
Why are you flirting less. It should be more.
( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:54, Reply)

Oh please
I couldn't stop flirting if I was a mute quadraplegic

Crackin' norks by the way
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:08, Reply)

Fanku : D

( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:15, Reply)

Please don't end up looking like Madonna
as it would only enhance my reputation as a bumder if I were to be seen flirting with a man
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:16, Reply)

Good God!
No chance of that happening. I look too much like a guy already to go down that route.
( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:25, Reply)

This is clearly bollocks
My tall girl fetish is well-established and I've heard rumours of magnificent, non-mannish breasts
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:31, Reply)

Well Ok from the front I am most definitely female.
And since I've grown my hair I haven't been called Sir in quite a while.
( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:33, Reply)

I don't think I've ever been called Sir
but from my point of view it's not a good thing
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:36, Reply)

I planned to get mine from Shoreditch so I'm not all that disheartened, to be honest.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:02, Reply)

You strike me as an explanatory type who might designate Vietnam as a holiday destination based on this cuisine
so I thought I'd pass on this experience. Or maybe I'm just seizing an opportunity to bang on about my awesome holiday. Pick one.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:08, Reply)

work hopefully
Got to get down to some. The other is low-calorie hot chocolate which is actually really nice
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:52, Reply)

My new thing is Cider
It's cheap and gets me very pissed, for a very low price.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:03, Reply)

cider
is
so
gross
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:16, Reply)

I've started enjoying it, and I'm not sure why...

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:29, Reply)