jlawrence01 wrote:Lunch at Pho 888. They serve very solid Vietnamese food, although being a family run place, the service can be slow. Of course, when a place is packed at lunch time on MEMORIAL DAY, they are doing something right.
There have been Vietnamese people in Des Moines since the seventies, and 2nd Ave is a hub of small businesses. Their old neighborhood used to be an area on Cottage Grove just south of the freeway. A Dong is the one restaurant that moved and stayed in business.
Mekong Sandwich Shop, where Mekong Haz a Sandwich?
Banh Mi is not my normal every day sandwich, served toasted:
Very normal North Des Moines house turned into sandwich hut:
Mekong Deli/Mekong Sandwich
3308 N 2nd St
Des Moines
Rene G wrote:A few miscellaneous notes from a recent short visit to Des Moines . . .
At the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, we stopped at The Wooden Shoe, a stand from Pella, a Dutch town 40 miles southwest and
world's record holder for the largest wooden shoe dance. They were selling a couple of the town's signature foods: Pella bologna and Dutch letters. Pella bologna (on a stick!) is a tasty sausage indeed, without a lot of similarity to what usually goes by that name. Is this the same as
rookworst?
I was in Pella recently, took a couple pics at some of the places I head back to. The shops on the square all offer free samples, so you can load up on tiny bits of bologna, cheese, and sweet stuff.
Ulrich's Meat Market:
If you aint Dutch you Aint much, unless you are a bag of potato chips, then you need to be
Dutch Crunch:
Diverse choice of bologna:
Bologna sandwich:
Jaarsma Bakery
Bee Hives:
Can't remember the name of this almond thing:
Raspberry Dream Boats:
Jaarsma Bakery
727 Franklin Street
Pella, IA 50219
Ulrichs Meat Market
715 Franklin Street
Pella, IA 50219