Col. Hector Bravado recommends… Joseph’s Southern Food

“I’ve got a job, but on the other hand, you have a place to live,” I was saying to Big K-Dog a few weekends ago on the way to the Forbidden City Buffet, “so I figure between the two of us, we’re almost an entire man.”

Neither of us felt like men or anything else after going through our mutual dare to try Forbidden City, located in the sepulcher of the Buckingham Mall on Havana St. A local talk show radio host had said “…it was pretty good for a buffet.”

“Pretty good for a cloaca” would have been more accurate. I mean, for God’s sake, even the sign outside says FORBIDDEN, so how do you expect you’d feel? We left full and unhappy. We sat there looking at each other in the dusk after our repast, watching the janky portable carnival they’d erected in the parking lot. Every time we pass by, we almost expect to see rivets and bolts and small, brown children being hurled into traffic.
“Never again.”

That weekend K-Dog, spurred on by a recommendation from The Moms, went and got us two chicken dinners from Joseph’s Southern Food at 2868 Fairfax St. Two incredible two-piece chicken dinners with a side, bread and a drink for just $7.25 a pop. It all rang in at three or four dollars LESS than Temple of Doom Buffet, and it was good. Like, “I’m so glad to be alive and to be eating this” good.

So, yeah. Go to Joseph’s Southern Food sometime this weekend. You won’t be sorry.