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Aesa is here. He arrived fine. Things are going great!

We talked about how generally boring I am food-wise, so it was decided I should be forced to broaden my horizons a bit. Apparently that means eating Pho, so we found a Vietnamese restaurant in St. Louis to try, called Pho Grand. It was apparently on The Loop, which surprised me when we got there. I don’t know why. I just figured it would be more out of the way, I guess.

The restaurant was small, but very nicely decorated. Service was also fantastic, but then again, when we sat down to eat, we were the only people there, so one would hope! (That changed by the time the meal was done.)

I had the thing you were supposed to get, apparently, which was this beef noodle soup. It was pretty good! It freaked me out a lot because it was really different. I’m just not used to things tasting outside my normal range. It’s normally just a combination of tastes I know. But this had a strong taste I can’t quite place that was very good. Kind of a calm taste over it all. It was also weird because, as Aesa said, it was a very “make your own” soup, with you getting a bunch of stuff to throw in it and you need to add all these sauces.

I, of course, didn’t know how to use chopsticks. So I had a hard time eating it with a fork. I also put in way to much of the rooster sauce stuff, which came back to haunt me near the end of the meal! Rookie mistakes! Such a n00b.

Still, I would definitely try that sort of food again. I feel like I’d like a chicken one better? I’d probably get chicken next time instead of beef. Is that okay to do? Is that a fool’s errand with Pho? I dunno. Still, an adventure!