We started with some steamed pork buns, filled with delicious pork belly, hoisin, cucumbers & scallions. After a generous dollop of siraccha I was ready for a taste. YUM. My friend has done the bo saam many a time ($200 for a whole pork butt) and as he explains it, it's much like eating the meat from these buns x 1,000. Death by pork fat. I mean, if there's a way to go, that's not the worst one. We also tried their seasonal bun, a BLT, which was still good, but not amazing.

Next up, this gorgeous green sauced dish appears. Fried duck necks with pickled corn, garlic chives and baby carrots. Duck necks are kind of a weird thing to eat in reality, and while tasty, sucking the insides out of a neck feels a little too Twilightish for me. But with the sauce & the, whatever those purple things were, it was a great balance. And then there was the pickled corn. It was like nothing else I'd ever tried, salty, vinegary, spicy and sweet all at once.
We then settled into our 3 main dishes, Pork scrapple with fried egg, benton's bacon & plum sauce, Corned beef terrine with fried egg sauce, and tea-brined egg salad, & Spicy pork sausage with rice cakes, Chinese broccoli & crispy shallots.
Scrapple - Not quite as well done as the batch Isaac's father fried up, the texture still confuses me, but the flavor is very comforting. Also, I don't know who Benton is, but he does make some dandy good bacon. I think it was even candied to add a nice sweet to salty component. Much like the scrapple + pumpkin butter combo I played with earlier.
Corned Beef Terrine - Leave it. One failure out of many successes. In my mind this was coming out as a steaming hot corned beef with a sizzling raw egg on top ready to be mixed into the fold, but it came out cold, soggy and flavorless.
Spicy Pork Sausage & Rice Cakes - By far the best thing we had out of the whole meal. It came with a warning, be wary of the red peppers. Because they are HOT. Indeed they were, a very spicy and heartwarming dish that had flavors which encapsulated all of the great things about each of Mr. Chang's items I'd experienced throughout the meal. It was a great way to tie everything together.
Way too full for dessert, we headed over to Milk Bar to grab some coffees, but were of course waylaid by yet another interesting flavor combination. Kimchi & Blue Cheese Croissants? We tucked one in our bag for later, after we'd come out of food coma & went on our merry way.
Success! But next time, I totally want to do the beef seven ways @ Ma Peche.
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