You could order a dozen or so of these fatty, sizzling, spice-crusted meat sticks and, once you’ve gnawed them clean, head into the night to hunt the undead that lurk in the side streets and alleys of Chinatown after dark. *Fall Special 15% off entire bill, 1) check in to our facebook 2) show coupon (exp 10/15)
Probably you’ll just doink them in the metal canister set at each table of this two-month-old purveyor of shaokao(燒烤), or northern-style barbecue, found on the streets of every city in China. That’s also known as chuan-er (串兒), among Muslim Uighurs in the far northwestern Xianjing autonomous territory from where it comes.
Focus BBQ is located at the southern tip of convoy street and Since they’ve opened, they have been mobbed at times, usually late at night, when eating meat on a stick is the only safe method of exercising your twitchy jaws.These spicy chew toys beg for beer, but though both places offer it on the menu.
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offered on their menu includes whole grilled lamb feet, square-angled joints of chewy cartilaginous connective tissue crusted in the blend of cumin, chile, salt, and sesame you’ll find pasted on much of the chuan-er (串兒) you’ll encounter anywhere. No matter what your anatomical predilection, Focus BBQ will grill it on a stick for you: kidneys, gizzards, hearts, tripe, and tendon from different creatures in all their chewy, snappy, slithery variety. Though simple lamb- and beef-fatted muscles take top billing (red willow again, just for the former), there are lots of parts to explore, from ruddy pork riblets to suckered squid tentacle tips to scored cocktail sausages (notice how the first character in 串儿 looks like a couple of weenies on a stick) to sheets of textured tofu skin wrapped around lengths of chive that almost feel like a breath mint amid the relentless brush fire in your mouth.
There are larger formats with which to fill out a session at Focus BBQ —garlicky oysters, sheets of enoki mushrooms or more chives, piles of crayfish, heaping platters of spicy chicken and noodles. The Xinjiang lamb skewers are a size or two larger here, and I was particularly taken with the ribbons of chewy chicken skin and the cylinders of glistening pork belly wrapped around snappy enoki.
聚點串吧 Focus BBQ – Chinese Yakitori BBQ Skewers
- address：3904 Convoy St， Ste 101， San Diego, CA 92111
- phone：(858) 430-6186
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