Chicken Fajita Salad with Cheese on the Side and a s/o of guacamole that came from my husband’s plate. From Popo’s Fiesta Del Sol Glendale AZ

This is THE SALAD that always does me in. It’s my favorite item on the Popo’s menu. That is the reason I order it. Even though the chicken differs every time it’s still good. Sometimes the portion is really big and other times it’s smaller. Sometimes the chicken is really juicy or just ok but it’s usually forking tasty. The avocado is always creamy and fresh. The sautéed onions and bell peppers make it tasty and it doesn’t really need dressing. I just add some fresh salsa here and there to it. This meal sort of seems healthy because it’s a salad and I don’t eat the fried shell and usually don’t eat any of the cheese.

It’s almost like forking magic that the salad seems to stay full no matter how much you forking eat. It’s the salad that almost doesn’t have and end and seems forking bottomless.

I don’t shovel down too many of the fresh chips that give you with their fresh made delicious salsa but I do partake with the $3.00 strongest in the forking world margaritas.

Did I mention STRONGEST in the FORKING WORLD margaritas? I don’t know WTFork are in those margaritas.

Those forking margaritas are stronger than straight booze. Straight booze seems like forking water compared to the margaritas from Popo’s Fiesta Del Sol. Maybe these margaritas can kill forking weeds or take paint off a car?

This is the dent I made in the salad and it really is a tasty salad that I want to finish.

I’m bursting full at this point. It’s just like that forking scene from Willy Wonka. I just need to forking roll out.

I just don’t know how the FORK this always happens and only happens to me at Popo’s. I do manage to suck down a forking second margarita after all they are only three bucks a pop.

Now I feel like the pink elephants I see from the salad that’s forking impossible to finish.

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Bhel Puri from Saffron Authentic Indian Bistro Phoenix AZ

Puffed rice was always pretty bland tasting to me and usually reminds me of forking styrofoam. While dinning at Saffron Authentic Indian Bistro in Phoenix AZ a dish called Bhel Puri caught my eye because it sounded very interesting. It was described as puffed rice tossed with herbs and spices in a spicy and tangy sauce.

Puffed rice was totally transformed from bland styrofoam. It tasted sweet, salty, tart and spicy. It seemed light when you ate it and it had a refreshing quality about it with many textures. I sure never had puffed rice like that before.

Not sure but I think the flavors were tamarind, coriander, mango, cumin, garlic, ginger, lemon and chilies mixed with the puffed rice, bean flour noodles and a few small chunks of potato.

Who knew that Puffed Rice could be complex and amazing!

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Sometimes it’s better NOT to send food back in a restaurant because you don’t know what kind of person is working there.

We went out to a nice little restaurant where I heard the Chef has trained in France. It was a cozy small restaurant with an interesting menu. I ordered a salad with the house made bread and my husband ordered a panini sandwich with a request to leave off the aioli. I wasn’t sure what the fork was going on in the kitchen. I could see into the semi open kitchen that they had at least two cooks on and seven tickets (dupes) hanging in the window and the food was coming out at a snail pace. I also saw that the majority of the orders were the same salad I ordered and my salad was sitting in the window around a half an hour.

The panini shows up in the window and our waiter notices that the cook ignored the no aioli request and asked my husband if he would eat the panini with aioli.

It seemed like the waiter was hoping my husband would take the forking panini but my husband told the waiter that he won’t eat the panini with aioli on it.

EKKKKKKKKKK! Aioli I HATE aioli!

So we wait another half hour or more for a new panini while my salad is getting warm and wilted waiting in the window.

We’ve been waiting in this restaurant well over an hour at lunch time.

The restaurant didn’t even seem that busy with a total of seven tables in there. Well really eight but the eight table walked out because they were waiting too long.

Our meals finally forking arrive my meal comes out without the bread so I asked for the bread again.

Waldorf Salad with house smoked salmon from Vogue Bistro Surprise AZ

I have to say even though my salad was warm and slightly wilted it was an amazingly delicious salad. The salad was very detailed. The creamy shallot dressing on it was so delicious I could drink it and the house smoked salmon was one of the best I ever tried anywhere. It was so fresh and buttery it melted in my mouth. The smoking was done so carefully, just slight to enhance the fish. Even the walnuts on the salad were very complex with flavors. I never tried walnuts that were that delicious before. About halfway through the waiter stops by to drop off stale bread and quickly runs off. He did a forking drop and run.

Panini from Vogue Bistro Surprise AZ

The panini arrives without aioli this time but I don’t know what the cook that was on inflicted on to the meat in the sandwich as it was unusually dry and drier than dog food jerky it was like the cook inflicted the meat with forking RIGOR MORTIS. My husband was already boiling mad from waiting so long and he just said to me this was a terrible choice for lunch and we are not forking coming here again.

God this place forking sucks!

The waiter knows not to ask us how things are and waits till we are forking finished and then offers us dessert on the house for waiting so forking long. (not even knowing about the dry meat in the sandwich)

I picked the house made assorted chocolates for dessert not knowing we’d be waiting another forking half an hour or so.

House made chocolates from Vogue Bistro AZ

My husband couldn’t  wait for me to snap the photo and wanted to dig in right away. The chocolates were made of very high quality chocolate and were forking ALMOST to die for.

Sometimes it’s better NOT to send food the fork back in a restaurant. You don’t know what kind of person is working there.

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