My favorite Vietnamese place will supply me with gỏi cuốn and bánh mì and of course phở tái. I have to go elseneighborhood for Chinese or Japanese.

Everybody should have food in their lives which makes them feel like the world at least has this in it. When I had a bad case of food poisoning, for two weeks after, everything tasted awful, and then I bit into a Peppermint Patty and nearly had to sit down, the taste was so straightforwardly itself, it cut through all the grossness that had been accumulating around the act of putting food in my mouth. It was amazing.