{"id":325,"date":"2010-08-16T07:41:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T07:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=325"},"modified":"2010-08-16T07:41:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T07:41:01","slug":"filling-bellies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2010\/08\/16\/filling-bellies\/","title":{"rendered":"Filling Bellies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=131601816851267\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-505\" title=\"2010.08.15.a\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2010.08.15.a.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupon.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-506\" title=\"2010.08.15.b\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2010.08.15.b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>We joined fellow hungry Bostonians last weekend to partake in the first annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=131601816851267\">Boston Food Truck Festival<\/a>. Our first stop at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/food\/restaurants\/reader_reviews\/restaurants\/maverick_barbecrew\/mm_ribs\/\">M&amp;M&#8217;s Ribs<\/a> fed us an uninspired tray of over-done and over-sauced pork ribs. The sausage from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sausageguy.com\/\">Sausage Guy<\/a> was equally mediocre and overly filling. The true standout turned out to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chow.com\/restaurants\/307\/speeds-hotdog-wagon\">Speed&#8217;s Hot Dog<\/a>. The &#8220;fully-loaded&#8221; version is a large, plump weiner marinated in apple cider and brown sugar, served on a toasted sub roll with homemade mustard, onions, and cranberry relish. At first glance a sloppy-looking hot mess, it is instantly redeemed upon entering our mouths with its scintillating blend of sweet and savory flavors. We were so stuffed at the end that we could only watch in horror at <a href=\"http:\/\/fillbellys.weebly.com\/\">Fillbelly&#8217;s<\/a> belated entrance. Hoping to redeem ourselves, we stalked their <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/fillbellys\">Twitter<\/a> thread on Friday, but was foiled again as they canceled their road tour for the evening. Disgruntled, we instead used our first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupon.com\">Groupon<\/a> for ribs and fried chicken at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soulfirebbq.com\">Soulfire<\/a>. This weekend, we took a short road trip to New Jersey to hang out with some friends. Along the way, our bellies were filled with our beloved &#8220;melty pork&#8221; ramen from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/santouka-ramen-edgewater\">Santouka<\/a> for lunch, sashimi and home-made bulgogi for dinner, and Sunday brunch with waffles, Spam, and eggs. An extravagant feast at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oleanarestaurant.com\/\">Oleana<\/a> with my co-residents, compliments of the ophthalmology department for our amazing OKAP scores, ended a most satisfying belly-filled week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We joined fellow hungry Bostonians last weekend to partake in the first annual Boston Food Truck Festival. Our first stop at M&amp;M&#8217;s Ribs fed us an uninspired tray of over-done and over-sauced pork ribs. The sausage from the Sausage Guy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2010\/08\/16\/filling-bellies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}