Trieu Chau

Ever have a restaurant that you love to go to? It is the best place in the world to you and your peeps that go there whenever you can. But when a new member joins the party, that’s when the needle scratches to a halting stop. All the sudden that person starts point out flaws about your favorite restaurant. What you think was fine dining, was in reality a hole in the wall shack ways off from city life. That was what happened to me when I took a friend to eat at a restaurant called Trieu Chau on the corner of Bolsa and Newhope. That’s when she pointed out all the discomforts of the restaurant, when we get there it was rush hour for lunch so we had to wait a while for a table. The thing is everything is hustle bustle; the restaurant opens at 7:00 A.M. and closes really early, the cooks flash cook food to perfection and bus boys dash it out to customers. The more customers served means more money, obviously. The restaurant is so bent up in trying to make as much money as possible sanitation isn’t the first thing in mind for the restaurant management. Such is the case with many of our favorite restaurants, it seems that we love the food because it is our own place, not well known our territory where we can hang out and eat. Possession is a big thing in human nature, even if the restaurant is a bit dirty we would still love to eat there. Another example would be taco carts, those things are just screaming out for a sanitation check people still go to enjoy the tacos. It is a little joke that goes around between my friends and I that the dirtier and cheaper the place is the better the food is. In some cases I would have to stare in disbelief because it is quiet true. For some reason the food seem to taste much better when it is food for average Joes, don’t get me wrong a $40 dollar steak better as hell be good as it is expensive otherwise no one would buy it. Our knowledge of a good and cheap hole in the wall restaurant makes the food taste way better then mainstream rip off prices.