My parents were in town visiting and I thought the perfect introduction to the city would be Balompie for pupusas… El Salvadorian food in a city full of El Salvadorians. So we ventured to number thirty.
I had never had pupusas before and don’t care to indulge ever again. I ordered two different types; a veggie pupusa and a sausage pupusa. I had no idea which was which as the “queso fresco” (fresh melted stringy cheese) was the majority of the pupusa. It’s basically a smaller, fatter quesadilla in a pita rather than a tortilla. That much cheese and pita in my stomach was enough to turn me away from pupusas forever. Thank goodness for the side order of pickled vegetables.
My poor mom, who ordered a sampler plate (basically a plate full of fried food) felt too sick to eat when she came to my restaurant that night.
For my next meal with Mom and Dad, I made the wise decision to take them to Ton Kiang for dim sum. I thought some clean Asian food might cleanse our systems of the cheesy fried heart-stoppers. Ton Kiang just added more greasy food to our repertoire.
I have been spoiled my New York dim sum where one's options are never-ending and some of them include blue bean soup (a soup that’s actually blue) and chicken feet. The dim sum menu at Ton
