A little bit of a trip back to memory lane... we were having dinner at this Vietnamese restaurant in Richardson, when I went out of the ordinary and ordered something else: spare-ribs marinated in korean bbq with rice. As the waiter set it on the table, I immediately saw the yellow rice and thought, "Great, another one of those specialty rice." Yes, there was a bit of sarcasm there. I'm not particularly fond of colored rice.
Anyway, I'd try most anything once, and so I did. Wow! To my surprise, it tasted quite like, and at first I couldn't remember the name of the two-bit restaurant in front of my alma mater. And then, I tried a second mouthful. And there it was, as if I was taken back to Dapitan and crossing the street to -- Janet's!
If you ever lived in the area, or else went to UST at some point in the 1990s, then you know what I'm talking about. That not-so-fancy, smoky, sizzling palace serving inexpensive porterhouse steak with java rice.
Do you know if Janet's survived the millennium?
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