{"id":20092,"date":"2019-11-09T23:35:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T07:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20092"},"modified":"2019-11-11T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T01:36:47","slug":"from-the-barbarian-food-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20092","title":{"rendered":"Russell Leong: From the Barbarian Food Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(for Jackie, to honor David)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lapost.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191110-Russell-Leong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20146\" src=\"https:\/\/lapost.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191110-Russell-Leong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lapost.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191110-Russell-Leong.jpg 360w, https:\/\/lapost.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191110-Russell-Leong-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Take me where only a tongue would take me:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Korean and Mexican beef ribs done down to the bone<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mestizo cloud of soy, chili, and cilantro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Take me where only a hand could take me:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wedging a watermelon, mango shaved ice, or matcha cream<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Between tiny brown fingers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Take me where only a throat would take me:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hint of lichee, whisper of jasmine<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">River of coldness down the throat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Take me where only a belly could take me:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Which now knows no hunger for salt or sugar<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sated as Maitreya, Buddha of the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Take me where only a writer could take me:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Parked on a corner of New Hampshire &amp; Olympic\u00a0Boulevard<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">or Ord &amp; Broadway\u2014L.A. Chinatown<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">West Hollywood, even.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;Pangs of Love&#8221;<\/em> from Louie&#8217;s Barbarian Food Truck,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Boiling and frying, tossing and grilling&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Whetting the appetite of a world without end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">-Russell Leong (Academic editor, professor, writer)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(for Jackie, to honor David) Take&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20092"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20161,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20092\/revisions\/20161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}