Rosemary Garden Bistro – Làng nướng Vườn Hồng
Nothing in the Rosemary Garden compound quite fits the name “Bistro”, there’s a chapel, a few stores across the parking lot with signs too far for me to read, a bakery that only takes order for wedding cakes, birthday cakes and Christmas cakes, and a restaurant big enough to host a small wedding banquet. Little Mom saw its ad in the local Vietnamese newspapers, and grilled alligator sounds good enough to make a trip across town.
My vegan intention was quickly thwarted, as expected in any Vietnamese or Korean restaurant, the few non-meat things available are all related to stir-fried bokchoy or eggplant. Little Mom eyed a few courses in the 9-course fish ($29.95), but you can’t get one without getting all nine, and she’s against fish spring roll while I’m against fish congee, so we flipped to the next page. Since Rosemary Garden is a làng nướng (grill village), it’s only appropriate that we meat-out and ignore the rice/noodles altogether (they don’t grill tofu). Besides, rice comes with alligator. Lots of rice, which took me by surprise for a split second. Guess I’ve been in the Bay for too long…
My friends said alligator tastes like chicken, and the important-looking lady who came out to greet us said the same thing, but I’m not convinced. It has more chew than chicken. It’s more like pork. We asked for no pepper in our “stir-fried alligator with pepper and lemongrass” (cá sấu xào sả ớt, $18.95), the pieces came out nicely seasoned, not spicy and evenly browned.
Although a bit on a the scrawny side (like me :D), the eel stir-fried in a coconut curry sauce with woodear mushroom and thin cellophane noodle, topped with Limnophila aromatica (rice paddy herb) and crushed peanuts, is a winner. All conversations come to a happy halt as one breaks a piece of toasted rice cracker (bánh đa) to scoop up that sauce and the soggy noodle in it.
Opposing the airy rice cracker are the oil-streaming, deep-fried sticky rice patties that accompany the grilled rabbit topped with white sesame seeds. Instruction says dip the rabbit in the fermented tofu sauce (chao), and drizzle the sticky rice patties with a sticky sugared soy sauce, but the other way around made more sense to me: dried, charred rabbit needs something sweet, and oily patties need spice. Dad likes them either way.
Despite the original difficulty of choosing something interesting from a standard list, if we ignore the outdated plate styling with limp slices of red bellpepper laid around the meat like an ancient picture of the sun, and if we rank a restaurant solely on taste, Rosemary Garden deserves 7 out of 10. Then again I’m soft, and our hosts were nice (they also gave us three pieces of coffee cream cake, in which both of my parents claimed to detect some wine flavoring but I couldn’t sense anything bitter), so let’s say 8/10. We’d come here more often and order some cakes if it hadn’t been all the way across Highway 6. Do come here if you get married.
Address: Rosemary Garden Bistro
14639 Bellaire Blvd
Houston, TX 77083
(281) 568-9151
Dinner for three: $56.13 (I’ve got to comment on this because I’m still not used to it: this is way too reasonable in North Cali standard and perhaps a bit high in Houston standard, but with so much leftover it’s still reasonable.)
Would you be enthusiastic about exchanging links?
1Wow, incredible weblog format! How long have you ever been running a blog for? you made blogging look easy. The entire glance of your web site is fantastic, let alone the content!
2Some genuinely good posts on this site, thank you for contribution. “Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.” by La Rochefoucauld.
3Heya i’m for the first time here. I found this board and I find It truly useful & it helped me out a lot. I hope to give something back and aid others like you aided me.
4The very core of your writing while sounding agreeable initially, did not really sit very well with me personally after some time. Somewhere throughout the sentences you actually were able to make me a believer but just for a very short while. I still have a problem with your leaps in assumptions and one might do well to fill in all those breaks. When you can accomplish that, I will undoubtedly be fascinated.
5Hello my loved one! I wish to say that this post is amazing, great written and include approximately all vital infos. I would like to look extra posts like this .
6I am constantly thought about this, thankyou for putting up.
7I’ve learn several good stuff here. Certainly price bookmarking for revisiting. I surprise how so much effort you set to make this type of wonderful informative web site.
8My programmer is trying to persuade me to move to .net from PHP. I have always disliked the idea because of the costs. But he’s tryiong none the less. I’ve been using Movable-type on several websites for about a year and am nervous about switching to another platform. I have heard good things about blogengine.net. Is there a way I can import all my wordpress content into it? Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated!
9I’ve recently started a web site, the info you provide on this web site has helped me greatly. Thank you for all of your time & work.
10F*ckin’ amazing things here. I’m very glad to see your post. Thanks a lot and i’m looking forward to contact you. Will you kindly drop me a mail?
11Real excellent info can be found on website.
12It is perfect time to make some plans for the future and it is time to be happy. I’ve read this post and if I could I desire to suggest you few interesting things or suggestions. Maybe you can write next articles referring to this article. I desire to read even more things about it!
13Hi there, just was alert to your blog thru Google, and found that it’s really informative. I am going to watch out for brussels. I’ll be grateful should you continue this in future. Many people will be benefited out of your writing. Cheers!
14I must show some appreciation to you just for bailing me out of this scenario. Because of surfing through the online world and seeing thoughts that were not powerful, I was thinking my entire life was over. Living without the presence of strategies to the difficulties you have fixed by means of your article is a crucial case, and ones that could have in a wrong way affected my career if I had not encountered the blog. Your own personal know-how and kindness in dealing with almost everything was precious. I don’t know what I would have done if I had not come upon such a step like this. I’m able to now relish my future. Thanks very much for the reliable and sensible help. I won’t think twice to recommend the sites to any person who desires counselling about this subject.
15you are really a excellent webmaster. The web site loading pace is amazing. It sort of feels that you are doing any distinctive trick. Furthermore, The contents are masterwork. you have done a fantastic activity on this matter!
16I am glad to be a visitor of this consummate site! , thanks for this rare information! .
17I really like your writing style, wonderful information, regards for putting up :D. “Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.” by Mortimer Adler.
18I gotta bookmark this internet site it seems very beneficial very useful
19There are definitely a number of details like that to take into consideration. That could be a great point to carry up. I supply the thoughts above as basic inspiration however clearly there are questions just like the one you deliver up the place a very powerful thing will probably be working in trustworthy good faith. I don?t know if greatest practices have emerged round issues like that, but I am positive that your job is clearly recognized as a good game. Both girls and boys feel the impact of only a second’s pleasure, for the remainder of their lives.
20Thanks, I’ve recently been searching for information about this subject for a long time and yours is the greatest I’ve discovered so far. But, what about the conclusion? Are you certain in regards to the supply?
21I like the valuable info you provide in your articles. I’ll bookmark your blog and check again here regularly. I am quite sure I will learn lots of new stuff right here! Best of luck for the next!
22Hi, I think your site might be having browser compatibility issues. When I look at your website in Safari, it looks fine but when opening in Internet Explorer, it has some overlapping. I just wanted to give you a quick heads up! Other then that, fantastic blog!
23Hello! I know this is kinda off topic however I’d figured I’d ask. Would you be interested in trading links or maybe guest writing a blog post or vice-versa? My site discusses a lot of the same subjects as yours and I believe we could greatly benefit from each other. If you’re interested feel free to shoot me an email. I look forward to hearing from you! Terrific blog by the way!
24Its like you read my mind! You appear to know a lot about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you could do with some pics to drive the message home a bit, but other than that, this is magnificent blog. A fantastic read. I’ll certainly be back.
25Hi there! I know this is kind of off topic but I was wondering which blog platform are you using for this website? I’m getting tired of WordPress because I’ve had problems with hackers and I’m looking at options for another platform. I would be fantastic if you could point me in the direction of a good platform.
26Hi there very cool blog!! Man .. Excellent .. Wonderful .. I’ll bookmark your web site and take the feeds additionally…I am happy to search out numerous helpful info right here in the post, we need work out more techniques on this regard, thank you for sharing.
27Some really nice and useful info on this web site, too I believe the design and style contains fantastic features.
28Hey, you used to write magnificent, but the last several posts have been kinda boringK I miss your great writings. Past few posts are just a bit out of track! come on!
29Great post, you have pointed out some great points, I as well think this s a very superb website.
30I really prize your work, Great post.
31Keep up the wonderful work, I read few posts on this web site and I conceive that your weblog is rattling interesting and contains circles of fantastic info .
32I really appreciate this post. I have been looking everywhere for this! Thank goodness I found it on Bing. You have made my day! Thx again
33Very interesting topic, thanks for putting up.
34I wanted to thank you for this great read!! I definitely enjoying every little bit of it I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you post…
35hello there and thanks on your information – I have certainly picked up anything new from proper here. I did alternatively expertise a few technical points the usage of this site, as I skilled to reload the website a lot of instances prior to I may get it to load correctly. I were puzzling over if your web hosting is OK? Now not that I’m complaining, but slow loading instances instances will often have an effect on your placement in google and could harm your high-quality ranking if ads and ***********|advertising|advertising|advertising and *********** with Adwords. Well I’m adding this RSS to my e-mail and could glance out for a lot more of your respective interesting content. Ensure that you replace this once more soon..
36Hi there! I know this is kinda off topic but I was wondering which blog platform are you using for this site? I’m getting sick and tired of WordPress because I’ve had issues with hackers and I’m looking at alternatives for another platform. I would be awesome if you could point me in the direction of a good platform.
37Howdy! This is my 1st comment here so I just wanted to give a quick shout out and tell you I truly enjoy reading your articles. Can you recommend any other blogs/websites/forums that cover the same subjects? Thank you so much!
38As I website owner I conceive the articles here is really great, appreciate it for your efforts.
39Heya i am for the first time here. I came across this board and I find It really useful & it helped me out much. I hope to give something back and aid others like you helped me.
40As soon as I observed this web site I went on reddit to share some of the love with them.
41Thank you for the sensible critique. Me and my neighbor were just preparing to do some research about this. We got a grab a book from our local library but I think I learned more from this post. I am very glad to see such excellent info being shared freely out there.
42Good article and right to the point. I am not sure if this is truly the best place to ask but do you folks have any thoughts on where to employ some professional writers? Thx 🙂
43Its superb as your other posts : D, thanks for putting up.
44I was wondering if you ever considered changing the structure of your site? Its very well written; I love what youve got to say. But maybe you could a little more in the way of content so people could connect with it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for only having 1 or 2 pictures. Maybe you could space it out better?
45