after dinner sneeze

Guapos! You're so far away!! (and no, we don't know the couple standing in front of us)

g and I decided on a hammer-and-anvil strategy.  While she waited in line as the anvil, I was the hammer that went off on my own to search for foods could be had for faster.  It was hot as bwawls (that’s not a typo), so I craved something cold.  The drink lines, even for the lemonade, were very long.  And then I spotted Jimmy’s (“Jimmies”).

Cupcakes, ay?

"Jaime Lee Curtis", ay?

A real ice cream sandwich!

Jaimee Lee Curtis cupcake?

We resumed waiting in line and k and cm showed up.  They, too, decided to float and cm reported that he was going to retrieve some pizza.  k, on the other hand, resumed being the social butterfly that she is and kept running into people to talk to.

Eventually, we made it to the front of the line – whoopee!

So close I can taste it!

But, as I placed our order and waited for it to be fulfilled, I looked over yonder only to see:

A storm's a-brewin' ...

And right as I received our tacos, it started raining.  Booooo.  I eventually located the rest of the party and we began to consume our foodstuffs.  The pizza (?from Nomad Pizza?) wasn’t bad – not superb, but happily identifiable as “good pizza”.  The tacos, to be honest, were a little of a letdown.  g suspects that this is because we weren’t taking the time to savor each bite (as we were getting rained on and itching to get a move on).  I suspect that it’s because the flavors were kind of muddled.  I had a bite of the mushroom and chicken tacos and the entirety of a short rib taco.  The two meat ones were dominated by their sauces.  The short rib one was overly sour-cream-esque (I actually can’t identify what the major component of the sauce was – but it was white).  The mushroom one was probably the best, with some good texture and brighter vegetable flavors.  But regardless of which one, Tyson Bee’s totally blows guapos out of the water – the flavors are stronger, the textures are more variable.  Hell, they even have a larger variety, from buns to tacos to burritos to curries – I’m glad that they’re close by to where I work.  Sorry I didn’t have any pictures of the tacos, but my hands were too covered with taco shmutz to bother with fiddling around with my iPhone.

Night market was fun, but I was a little bummed that there weren’t more of the obvious/well-known tents/trucks of food.  I mean, there are probably at least three more dessert trucks I can think of!  And what about having a few more restaurants show?  Midatlantic was there, but they only had a butterscotch krimpet bread pudding (which I really wanted to try but ran out of time).  Here’s to hoping that they expand a little more – it’ll disperse the long lines and expose us to more because we’ll spend less time waiting for the obvious heavy hitters like Guapos and Tyson.  I look forward to next time!