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Taste History at Golden Wat Noodle House

Posted on April 8, 2021April 9, 2021 by EdmundTijerina.com

Take one bite of any dish from Golden Wat Noodle House and bask in the subtle complexity of its flavors, with ginger, galangal, lemongrass, a bit of fish sauce and several other notes deepening the sensation but never overwhelming the palate.

Each dish is sheer beauty in a bowl, a gift to San Antonio—and a testament to the human spirit that arose out of a brutal time that most Americans only know from history books, if at all. In the mid-1970s, as American eyes shifted from Southeast Asia after the end of the Vietnam War, the Khmer Rouge took power in neighboring Cambodia and embarked on a campaign of slaughter that ultimately killed some 2 million Cambodians.

Among those who fled were the parents of Golden Wat’s Susan Kaars-Sypesteyn.

Read more at: https://www.sanantoniomag.com/taste-culinary-history-at-golden-wat-noodle-house/

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