You know what’s kind of awesome about the Valero gas station on Cesar Chavez? Where lesser convenience stores sell fried burritos, this place has got Jamaican meat pies. They were kind of like an empanada, but with more of an island flare to the spices.
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The High Price of Taco Signs
When I was at the grocery store I saw this sign and took a picture. No good reason for it, I just thought it was kinda funny and taken generally a repudiation of all those bastard vegans. But then a manager yelled at me. “You can’t take pictures in the store.” No explanation why. Is
Czech Stop Kolaches
Everyone always talks about the Czech Stop, that fabled highway-side kolache bakery that’s the only thing worth mentioning between Austin and Dallas. Now that I’ve eaten there, I understand why kolaches are so beloved. Every kolache I’ve ever had is just a pale impersonation of the Czech Stop. The dough is light and flavorful and
East Side Kings Ramen
The East Side Kings trailer next to the Grackle sells a ramen dish. There’s stuff added to it, some meat and egg and chive, but it’s served in an actual instant ramen container. That’s gutsy. I admire that.
Bus Stop Paletas
During the punishing Austin heat last summer I was fortunate enough to have a taco cart near my bus stop that sold handmade paletas for a buck each. I would arrive at the bus stop fifteen minutes before the 338 arrived with two bucks in my hand. One buck for the bus, and another to
Buddha in the Park
They say if you meet the Buddha on the road you must kill him. However, if you meet him in a park along Little Stacey Creek in South Austin, then you should just chill. Austin is too cool for that deicide stuff.
MT Supermarket Finds
No trip up north to the MT Asian supermarket is without some random purchase of stuff that I have no need of, yet I get anyways. For instance, I got myself some dried red jujubes. I bought them because I thought they would taste like dried cranberry, or at worst, dried crabapple. The actual result
Weird Austin House
I’ve been biking to work a lot lately, and I make it a point to bike a slightly different route every day. So I tend to see some odd things, this being Austin and pretty weird and all. I saw this house on the south side, just a little further south than the nice parts
Fishing team’s trip to Port Aransas was a game-changing event. All this time we had sweated and labored to catch a few under-sized largemouth and sunfish hardly larger than our hand. But in the autumn waters of the Gulf of Mexico the fish are plentiful and willing. In fact the problem wasn’t catching the fish,
I’ve caught fish that were disgusting before, and I’ve caught fish covered in leeches. But this was the first fish that was visibly deformed. You can see that this sunfish has a kink in its tail, as if it had a piscine spina bifida. This one was caught on Barton Creek. Despite the mutation, it