{"id":7544,"date":"2012-11-30T14:11:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T22:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=7544"},"modified":"2012-11-30T14:11:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T22:11:38","slug":"poodle-dog-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=7544","title":{"rendered":"Seattle, WA – Random Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(From our travel archives) Escaped from post-Katrina for a few days, ostensibly for business, but\u00a0really for my sanity.<\/p>\n

I finally found a place where the Chinese food in the US tastes\u00a0Chinese, a little place north of the city called Doong Kong Lau Haaka\u00a0Cuisine. The “Haaka” were one of the nomadic tribes of China, and as\u00a0such, they picked up “a little of this, a little of that” in their\u00a0cuisine.<\/p>\n

But I especially enjoyed the regional dishes I hadn’t had since leaving\u00a0China, like a variety of steamed dumplings, steamed fish with ginger\u00a0and onion, and seafood hot pot.<\/p>\n

The restaurant is located at 9710 Aurora Ave North, in Seattle, about 5 miles north of downtown. Open 7 days til 11PM.<\/p>\n

One of my other criteria in selecting my dining places, as you know, is\u00a0to look for the long established “diner”, and I was happy to visit two\u00a0in the area.<\/p>\n

One was the “Poodle Dog”, which has been open on US 99 (the old main\u00a0north-south highway on the West Coast)…since 1933. Standard diner\u00a0fare in a location that hasn’t seen a redecorator since the 50s, at least. The Poodle Dog is just off I-5 in Fife, Washington, about 25\u00a0miles south of downtown.<\/p>\n

The other diner was even further south, “Galloping Gerties”, 35 miles\u00a0south of downtown in South Tacoma (might actually be Lakewood) at the front gate of the military establishment, “Fort Lewis.”<\/p>\n

Why venture so far afield? One reason: SOS. That staple of my father’s generation of GIs, Gertie’s serves it, and I’ve never seen it on a restaurant\u00a0menu. For those of you not familiar with the term “SOS”, it is the polite version of what GIs called “S**T on a Shingle”, more commonly\u00a0known as creamed chipped beef on toast.<\/p>\n

Gertie’s is named after the famous Tacoma Narrows Bridge that quit being\u00a0a bridge one day in 1940, when poor engineering caused it to start\u00a0vibrating in a wind storm and fall into the Narrows.<\/p>\n

The SOS was worth the trip. Well, maybe. The terribly bad Karaoke in\u00a0Gertie’s really made the evening worthwhile.<\/p>\n

\"Poodle<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Galloping<\/a><\/p>\n

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Poodle Dog Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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