There are about a dozen recipes, for delights like fried locusts, stuffed hearts and stewed pigeons.
During a recent visit, the menu included seh bak, a hearty stew of pig's ears, intestines, stomach and heart braised for hours in soy sauce and spices — a dish that has become a challenge to find in recent years.
The house pappardelle all but dispenses with pasta in favor of the other components — a hearty stew of chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, button mushrooms, artichoke hearts and kale in a basil-rich broth.
You'll have to take the dishes home and cook them yourself, but it's worth it for the funky enjoyment of bopis, a spicy, vinegar-based pig's-heart-and-vegetable stew finished with fish sauce ($3.65 a pound); or menudo, a sauté chockful of potatoes, vegetables and pork, including pork liver, sweetened with raisins ($4.50 a pound).
Talking about what to make with kidneys and stew meat and that giant heart makes her eyes shine.
There has been at least one report of people who developed erratic heart rhythms after eating stew made from snails that had eaten oleander leaves, which contain digoxin, a cardiac drug.
And I found the rich fish fumet at the heart of the fish stew delectable, once I had dug past undercooked mussels, a single shrimp and two chunks of whitefish to reach it.
He possessed such a wry and gentle soul, except for the times he railed at her for being an evil dwarf witch who meant to stew his heart in bat broth (he'd majored in world folklore), and she'd always adored those horn-rimmed glasses that made him look like the professor he could still become if he let go of his rage.
This self-proclaimed "environmentally aware salad bistro" offers an imaginative range of greens — though you can also get hot and heart-warming soup and stew.
