I live a life of piety and privation, trying my best to not to ask for all that much in life, this borrowed time remaining all I really need. That being said, there are two vices that I do tend to indulge in once a week: a good meal to write about and an album from Guestroom Records to soundtrack that writing.
On Saturday, these transient worlds finally came together when, after purchasing a vinyl reissue of Rodriguez’ Cold Fact LP, I walked a couple of doors down to Kao Mun Gai, 3709 N. Western Ave., to try one of their famed bubble teas, something I had been most curious about for quite a while.
Album slid loosely under my arm, as I read the outside window, it proclaimed they also served Thai chicken rice, another delicacy I had never had and now wanted to. Inside the slim eatery—only take-out and delivery for now, by the way—they have a small menu on the wall with very few items to eat, but plenty of written instructions on how to traditionally eat them.
Ordering an appetizer of four eggrolls ($4.00) was an easy thing to do, as was putting in for a regular Thai Chicken Rice ($6.50), over other eats like the Shrimp Pad Thai or the Chicken Pad Thai. My typically frustrating problem of routine indecisiveness came, however, when choosing that specific flavor of Bubble Tea that I didn’t know I was craving.