International Food Court (Bush and Kearny) Reopens

[soupçon]

Ambling down Kearny Street this evening I noticed flashy new signage announcing the Grand Reopening of the International Food Court at Bush and Kearny, which closed a few years ago after an underground electrical fire. It was after hours and closed, but a Yelp review confirmed it had indeed reopened today. The Pho place and Sushi Tosuki, at the very least are back. I plan to check on it tomorrow.

http://goo.gl/crQkJ

[Melanie Wong]

Updates? Especially any spotting of the Burmese vendor.

[soupçon]

Apparently not returning. The last remaining slot is being filled by a Korean place (Bibimbap something or other).

[Melanie Wong]

Not what I wanted to hear, but I'll move on. Thanks for the word.

Anything else there you particularly like?

[drinkmoretang]

A quick followup: had a bun bo hue from Pho Express in the IFC, which was quite a generous portion: I received two decent-sized pieces of pigs' knuckles, several cubes of blood, a handful of beef, and a few slices of steamed pork to boot. The broth was rich with an almost-thick mouthfeel, but underseasoned, one-note and not quite spicy enough. Good enough to have again, but not anytime soon with so many menu items to explore!

[drinkmoretang]

I happily went to the Filipino place today, grateful for some lunch variety. I got dinuguan, a pork blood stew, and picadillo over rice for a little under $8. I didn't detect offal in the stew, and did not particularly care for the meat in it, which was cut into either dry, lean pieces with very little fat, or pieces that were completely fat. The stew itself, however, was pretty delicious, rich but balanced with vinegar cutting through the fat. I'll be trying the adobo in the next couple of days - the dark, thick adobo sauce looked very attractive.

Nobody knows if the people operating the Burmese place will be back; their kitchen still looks untouched. The Mexican place wasn't open yet either as of 10:30 AM today.

[grayelf]

Too bad about the dinuguan -- I quite like it when well executed. Looking forward to your adobo post, and thanks much for the intel on the Burmese place. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

[drinkmoretang]

The chicken adobo was tasty enough - leans towards the tangier end of the adobo spectrum, and I was grateful for a big extra ladleful of sauce on my rice. Chicken was a bit dry, though. The real star was a taro leaf dish, braised to tenderness (but not mush) and laden with shrimp paste and shrimp - I got a couple shrimp and five (!) shrimp heads in my mound of veggies. After eating this, I am convinced that there is no vegetable in the world that shrimp paste does not improve.

I also got a sticky rice cake (biko?), still warm and saturated with fat and syrup - tastes like a sticky brick of sugar, which is to say: awesome, but I'm not sure I'm up for this challenge again at 11 AM.

[CarrieWas218]

Figures... I was working a temp job down there and kept searching Yelp for a Burmese restaurants which said it was in the food court. Of course Yelp hadn't updated their site to show it was closed and I couldn't figure out where the Burmese restaurant was.

Now it all makes sense and I'm no longer in the neighborhood!

[grayelf]

We tried to find that Burmese place too on one trip and concluded it was in the food fair that closed, doh. If anyone drops by and notices whether it is still in the mix, I'd sure appreciate knowing.