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2025 Horrific Foods – Las Vegas NV

These are most of the BAD Plates from This Year. I may have forgotten a few?

These are the most Horrific Foods I tried since last year.

Louie Louie Fried Chicken Sandwich

The Louie Louie Fried Chicken Sandwich was over sauced and made with chicken that was so dry it could make you choke. (maybe that is why they over sauced the sandwich?)

This Coconut Chicken from Hawaiian Barbecue (pictured below) had a sauce on it that made me gag and the better chicken nuggets were dry and stingy. The dryer ones were hard as rocks.

The Potato & Cheddar Pierogi from Pierogi Village

The Potato & Cheddar Pierogi had unknown meats in it from Pierogi Village – BLECH!

Caesar Salad from Balla Italian Soul

The worst Caesar Salad was from Balla Italian Soul. Because NOBODY wants their Caesar Dressing to taste like Ranch Dressing with an anchovy garnish.

Broccolini from Balla Italian Soul

Also from Balla Italian Soul the spicy broccolini is very over seasoned and MUSHY…..NOBODY likes mushy smelly broccoli.

Reheated macaroni and cheese, red beans and rice without sauce Jerk Chicken and the toughest beef in the whole world came from Taste Budz Creole Kitchen. (Dang even a crocodile would have trouble here)

Also from Taste Budz Creole Kitchen was from the can deteriorating sweet potatoes and salmon that a fork can’t cut that is crusted with something like grill residue and taste horrible and is so hot and spicy that it is inedible. Maybe this restaurant is called Taste Budz because the owner lacks Taste Budz?

Ick! It taste how it looks – from NORMS

This next one doesn’t look bad but it was BAD. It was suppose to be a $24. ground in house prime rib burger …………But instead they served an over cooked nasty fast food tasting type burger from Carve Prime Rib at the Cannery Hotel/Casino.

From Chabelito’s Mexican Grill #3 I tried the Birria Ramen.

Birria Ramen from Chabelito’s

Then I almost turned into a pillar of salt from this non-edible salt bomb birria ramen.

Hot Garlic Szechuan Chicken from China Kitchen

So SWEET you can pour it on pancakes.

Kung Pao Beef from China Kitchen

The beef was so tough that you could BREAK YOUR TEETH.

When you need a steak knife to cut threw you snapper Florentine is pretty darn bad. (and they served it with a broken sauce too1)

Snapper Florentine Special from Bistro 57
Unseasoned hard as tire rubber chicken from Sushi Neko
Dried Out Beef Bulgogi from Sushi Neko

This next one doesn’t look bad but it was……The Hamachi Kama from Ginza Izakaya Japanese Restaurant was over cooked to the point where it was dry and stringy. (but their wagyu beef really was very good)

Hamachi Kama from Ginza Izakaya Japanese Restaurant

Also the Chicken Karaage was maybe the worst I ever had anywhere……..because it tasted unseasoned and floury and that you can see!

Chicken Karaage from Ginza Izakaya Japanese Restaurant

Cooper’s Kitchen & Tap served me the WORST Stir Fry Dish that was chuck full of Raw Dry Kale and a sauce that might have been created by a toddler.

The Stir Fry from Cooper’s Kitchen and Tap was awful and full of Raw Kale

Went back to the Hawaiian Barbecue because it actually used to be reasonably good and got this in my Maui Maui Healthier Salad.

It was scary awful and disgusting. If was like fried the fish and dripped oil all over the salad and egg. And WTFork is that BLUE on the egg?

Grizzle and Chicken joints from all the meats I tried from 8282 Korean BBQ

Those were the 2025 Horrific Foods of Las Vegas.

Just awful and NOT WORTH A FORK!

Not Worth a Fork
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THREE CAN’T MISS THAI Dishes of Las Vegas NV

The thing that surprised me the most about dining in Las Vegas were the amount of Thai Restaurants here. GOSH there are so many! Nearly all of them are at least good and several of them are exceptional and offer those “Tip” “TOP” FANTABULOUS Killer dishes.

One is the Pla Rad Prik (Crispy Fish) with Crispy Basil from Skye Thai Grab & Go (9650 W. Skye Canyon Park Dr.) We are very fond of other dishes here and also are a fan of their unusual for a Thai Restaurant dishes like Brussels sprouts, a pumpkin and egg dish, and even chicken pho but this Pla Rad Prik is extra special.

Pla Rad Prik from Skye Thai Grab & Go

Tender mild white fish that is shattering Crispy but delicious. It’s savory, sweet, spicy, sour, and tangy. It’s delicious and topped with CRISPY basil, green beans, and bell pepper strips, and come with steamed Jasmin rice. This is so good that even my husband who often doesn’t like fish said that he would order this dish.

Lemongrass and Lime Thai Restaurant (8431 Fam Rd.) might have more than one can’t miss dish. You MUST get the Golden (potato) pouches.

Golden Pouches from Lemongrass & Lime

GOSH YUMMMMMMM! Crisp Crunchy Eggroll wrappers stuffed with mashed potatoes that sit in the BEST massaman curry adorned with some fried crispy shallots.

Lemongrass and Lime also really kills it with their curries. I think the FORKING best green curry, massaman curry, and pumpkin curry, also was from Lemongrass and Lime so those too are must gets if you enjoy Thai Curry.

Yet another YUM-DINGER Crazy great Thai Plate is the Crispy Spinach Salad from Nittaya’s Secret Kitchen (8427 W. Lake Blvd).

FAMOUS Crispy Spinach Salad from Nittaya’s Secret Kitchen

This is so great that even if you think you don’t like Thai Food you will love this. It’s Spinach Leaves that are carefully tempura battered and fried to a perfect crisp. The sauce on the side is what turns this magical….The sauce is lime-ee and bright, it slightly spicy, and has lots of cashews in it.

Those were three of the MUST GET Thai Dishes of Las Vegas NV.

And this is –

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Foods That YOU Can Make Too!

These are Foods that YOU can make too! The recipes or variations of most of the recipes are right here on www.TheFORKINGTruth.com

Up above are deviled eggs and blue cheese butter sriracha shooters on radish slices.

Potato, Cheese, Scallion stuffed won tons (Not on site, too easy – just winged) & Chocolate Chip Cookies

Non Traditional Mini Tacos (called Mexi Turkey Weanies Recipe) and Potato & Cheese mini Potatoes (not on site too easy just winged)

Tomato & Cheese Pizza & Banana Date Sesame Cakes (Yotam Ottolenghi Style)

My FAMOUS Chipotle Rice Stuffed Peppers & Pizza Rolls topped with Italian Seasoned Meatball

ENJOY!!!!

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Foods that YOU can make too!

These are foods that you can make too! The recipes or variations of the recipes can be found on this site (www.TheFORKINGTruth.com)

Up above are pizza, pizza rolls topped with ricotta, and lemon cakes (made smaller and called lemon bites in the recipes)

Lemon Cakes with added lemon curd, crumbs, powdered sugar

Pizza

Mashed Potato with hatch chili and cheddar tacos (no recipe published became this is easy)

Banana date and sesame cup cakes based on a Yotam Ottolenghi recipe on this site.

Savory Cocktail Potatoes (Actually Potato Knish filled mini potatoes)

My Famous – Chipotle Rice Corn Cheddar Stuffed Peppers (Recipe here is for Spicy Chipotle Rice Corn Cheddar Potato string wrapped peppers made with jalapenos but I’ve been using sweet mild baby bells lately)

Small rye rolls and mini rye rolls

Pastrami Seasoned Turkey Patties on mini home made rye rolls

Tacos (these are actually ground turkey that is taco seasoned and shaped like small hot dogs so they stay neat and don’t crumble.)

Potato & Cheese Pierogi

Falafel Spiced Turkey Meatballs – Then I reheated them in Wonton Wraps – Offered fresh whipped Hummus with them.

Also made crispy wonton cups and filled them with chocolate covered dates and dusted the cups with cinnamon and 10x sugar. (this I just winged)

Tomato and Cheese (Fresh Mozzarella, Fontina, Parm) Pizza

And I guess I’m wrapping it up here with –

Potato and Cheese Pierogi and Home Made Crackers topped with Green Chili Cheese Ball that I piped into roses.

Well These are food that YOU CAN MAKE TOO and all the recipes or variations of the recipes are here on The Forking Truth

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Forking Buzz of The Week

The most notable restaurant of the week was once again ai Pazzi by celebrity chef Fabio Viviani.

This time we enjoyed the table-side caprese salad, ossobucco, halibut, and flourless chocolate cake.

The other notable restaurant was Holsteins. They made us delicious, perfectly prepared burgers that were the juiciest ever.

The FORKING WORST of the week came from The Volcano Grill.

Old dried out carrots on the salad, Old dried out stringy chicken, Old tasting shrimp, slightly over cooked salmon. and sauces that didn’t taste like their namesakes. To sum things up it was like eating from a budget buffet.

Las Vegas News – The closures of two celebrity chef restaurants were announced. Chef Michael Symon;s – Mabel’s Bar & Q (Mabel’s BBQ) and Chef Marc Vetri’s – Vetri Cucina will soon be closing. The other Big Las Vegas Food News is that Jose Andres Bazaar Meat is expected to open next week (September 4th 2025) in the Venetian.

Silly or cute food news – My dogs enjoying a Cheeseburger.

That was The FORKING Buzz of the week.

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My FORKING Thoughts on Kettle Chili Crisp Potato Chips

I had to try this bag of Kettle Chili Crisp Potato Chips so I picked it up at my local grocery store.

I am familiar with all kinds of Chili Crisp. I made a few myself – Basically Chili Crisp was originally a Spicy Chinese Condiment that added flavors, heat, and textures to food. (the below chili crisps, and food recipes can be found here in the search.

Chili Crisp
Cabbage and Chilli Crisp Dumplings
Indian Inspired Chili Crisp
FORKING Delicious Corn Salad made with Italian Chili Crisp
Italian Chili Crisp

Anyways back to the chips.

I open the bag and take a whiff….It doesn’t really smell like anything I know……maybe a wet potato smell that is mixed with oil and seasonings?

The chips are also all small and very thin and covered with some powder.

The ingredients look OK so I let one dissolve in my mouth.

It’s spicy but doesn’t taste like chili crisp to me.

It tastes very different when you just eat them……….More like spicy BBQ chips. With a little sweetness to them.

Not bad or awful but also not exciting. Just OK.

Those were my FORKING Thoughts on Kettle Chili Crisp Potato Chips your Forking thoughts may indeed differ.

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Nom Pang Sandwiches (and More!) – Las Vegas NV – Cambodian Cuisine – Different, Tasty, Inexpensive – Worth a Try!

Nom Pang Sandwiches is a casual (order at the counter) Cambodian Restaurant located in the North/West part of Las Vegas Nevada. Nom Pang is the Cambodian name for a sandwich made with a lighter crisp rice flour baguette. It is dressed with either a mayonnaise (depending on the variety) or pork spread. Then a choice of filling that is topped with pickled vegetables, jalapeños, and cilantro.

Pork Belly Nom Pang (The BBQ Chicken Nom Pang looks the same)

They also offer Spicy Lemongrass Chicken Vermicelli Bowls (pictured below)(my favorite so far)

Or maybe you might like to try the Cambodian Chicken Curry?

They also offer Pork Belly with Egg and Rice with Seasonal Pickled Vegetables.

They also offer daily specials-

The food is tasty and is also very inexpensive.

At this time that is subject to change a Nom Pang runs $8-$8.50)

Nom Pang Sandwiches are Worth a Try!

Nom Pang Sandwiches

4275 N Rancho Dr Las Vegas NV

702-268-8288

www.NomPangLV.my.canua.site

Every THING is subject to change. .

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FOODS That YOU Can Make Too!

Nearly all the recipes or variations of the recipes can be found here. (www.TheFORKINGTruth.com)

Up top are potato and cheese pierogi that I fried in butter. (You are suppose to eat them boiled the first day, 2nd day sautéed with caramelized onions.) But for a crowd I think they are best fried so they are finger food.

Pistachio and Chocolate & Hazelnut rolled Cookies

Crispy tasty Potato Puffs (Potato, cream cheese, butter, seasonings filled fried wonton wrappers)

Asian Inspired 5 Spice Turkey Meatballs with Hoisin Sauce

My famous chipotle rice, cheddar, corn, potato string wrapped peppers

Crackers (bread crisps) with taleggio , home made pesto, tomato and smaller crackers with mild green chili cream cheese that I piped into roses.

These were some Foods that YOU can make too!

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My FORKING Thoughts on Reese’s PB&J Strawberry Jam Big Cup

The Reese’s PB&J cups come in strawberry jam and grape jam. I picked the strawberry jam because the grape one says right on the front artificially flavored so I thought the strawberry would be better? It’s marked U and D so it doesn’t contain any Castoreum so it’s safe to eat.

It looks different than the picture.

LOL – I thought the top would be embellished with peanut butter and jam.

I cut in half and I see the strawberry jam is near the bottom of the cup.

I try some.

It tastes mostly like a Reese’s Cup.

The strawberry jam doesn’t bring much to it.

It’s not terrible but the jam is a waste because it doesn’t have much flavor to it. It’s just there to give you less Reese’s.

Those were my FORKING Thoughts on Reese’s PB&J Strawberry Jam Big Cups. Your FORKING opinion may indeed differ.

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Dining With DOGS June 2025

Dining With DOGS is Just a “FLUFF” Story and is usually about taking my dogs out to eat. It sort of started with my late dog Louie. He always enjoyed going out to eat and when he got elderly he came down with aggressive cancer. His doctor said he probably only had three months to live or possibly up to 6 months. Since Louie couldn’t do much and still enjoyed eating out I took him out to eat as often as possible and Louie made it another 17 months. Today I take my current dogs out to eat when I can and when the weather is right.

We got lucky and had a cooler day and went to SNS Diner BBQ. If they seem familiar to you then maybe you saw them on Food Network’s Diners Drive Ins and Dives.

The Dogs got to eat some of my husband’s three meat plate (bbq pork, bbq brisket, sausage, and some macaroni and cheese. (later they will get some cornbread with honey butter)

They also got some chicken from my chicken tacos and the cheese on the side from my chicken tacos.

They always enjoy SNS Diner BBQ

SNS Diner BBQ

3229 Losee Rd N Las Vegas NV

702-269-9696

www.SNSDiner.com

We had a day under 90 degrees so we tried the Hawaiian Barbecue #1 again. It was reasonably good our first 6 visits and then last time we thought it was just a bad day but tried them again hoping they’d be good again.

I got my usual maui maui healthier salad.

It’s mostly edible but not so good today. It’s very greasy with dried up fish. It has grease dropped all over the salad, fish, and egg.

The egg also has a blue stain on it.

I’m afraid to eat it and am also afraid to give my dogs but I only give them a little bit of the fish.

“UGGG! Not so good”

“Guess we won’t be returning”

Hawaiian Barbecue #1

5870 N Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV

702-042-4600

www.BestHawaiianBarbarbcue.com

Now it’s hot here so we took the dogs for a car ride to get an In-N-Out Cheeseburger.

“We enjoy the car ride and will be enjoying a cheeseburger soon!”

“tear me off a piece”

“Here it comes”

“My turn”

“I’m waiting”

“We’ll be doing lots of In-N-Out this summer”

www.In-N-Out.com

It was too hot to dine out with dogs so today they got a car ride and a Burger King Burger.

They look excited to get a cheeseburger…..We added the cheese from home because the cheese pulls off the Burger when we remove the bread for the dogs.

Dogs got another ride to Burger King and got another burger.

We did take out from Nom Pang (a Cambodian Restaurant) so the dogs could get another car ride and eat some of the food.

Nom Pang Sandwiches

4275 N Rancho Dr Las Vegas NV

702-268-8288

www.NomPangLV.my.canva.site

That was Dining with DOGS for June 2025. We hope that you’ve enjoyed and we hope to see you next month.

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In Memory of Louie 5-5-2001 – 3-3-2017