JB's Miscellaneous Ramblings

In the DC area, there are many of a type of Pho restaurant that I've yet to find around here...

The places I'm thinking of are ONLY Pho places. They are typically cafeteria-ish seating, with a menu composed ONLY of Pho, with some beverages and maybe deserts.
2-3 sizes, around a dozen combinations of meat, and that's IT.

You come in, and the time between when you sit and when you're served is (yes, with ordering in the middle) about 6 minutes.

They serve only Pho and, because of that, the pho they serve is exemplary.

Around here, the pho places have full menus of Vietnamese food and thus they don't have the, well, Zen of pho inherent in them that the DC places do... when you make one dish, you have to make it well (or be serving a market that doesn't care, but I've yet to see that). When you make many, unless you are working at a level well above your typical inexpensive ethnic food place, you're probably not doing any of them as well as you could.

Is there this sort of Pho place here? Please?

(There's a tonkatsu place in NYC I've been meaning to go to, too.)

Most microwaves sit on kitchen counters, putting them well-below eye-level for many (most, I think) people.

The displays on most modern (2 years or newer? I pulled that number of of the air) microwaves are not readable when you're standing in front of them within arm's length... perhaps at anything more than 40 degrees?

I've spent almost as much time bending over to look at the displays on microwaves than I have cooking in them, I think.

It's probably an LCD failure, compared to the previous use of LEDs.