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If Chipotle Mexican Grill served Southeast Asian aliment instead of Tex-Mex, it would attending a lot like Monsoon Asian Grill in Nampa.
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Chipotle — Menu | chipotle mexican grill black beansMonsoon, which opened beforehand this year in a band capital abreast the Ford Idaho Center, is a quick-service abstraction specializing in customizable rice and brainstorm bowls of the Thai and Vietnamese persuasion.
Nick Duncan, a longtime Boise-area chef and restaurant consultant, opened the fast-casual beanery in affiliation with Billy Pothikamjorn, buyer of Mai Thai in Boise. Their ambition was to appear up with a abode that tantalizes aftertaste buds with the active flavors of the Indochinese peninsula, but afterwards all the fuss of table account and airheaded that apprehend like novellas.
Interior architecture elements accommodate rustic-looking tables that Duncan congenital himself (now that’s a active chef!) with reclaimed copse from an old barn in eastern Oregon. Added copse appearance emphasis the beanery actuality and there, alloyed with affluence of agleam stainless animate surfaces to accord it a avant-garde feel.
Those in a bustle will absolutely like the order-at-the-counter system. The build-your-own bowls and Chef’s Signature Bowls are advised to be affordable, advantageous and appear out of the attainable kitchen in about two account — unless the abode gets busy, and afresh you’re attractive at about bristles minutes, tops.
A deluge of able items are kept hot, algid and ready-to-go abaft a bottle apprehend bouncer at the adverse for anybody to see. The scratch-made choices accommodate different meats, rice and yakisoba noodles, different sauces (aromatic attic milk-infused curries, peanut booze and more), veggies and Thai-style garnishes. Plus, the restaurant afresh added bashed absurd rice and rice noodles to the starch lineup. As you can see, diners are in allegation of what they accept to eat at Monsoon.
You would accept to banquet actuality 750 times to try all the attainable card combinations with the customizable bowls. That affectionate of algebraic dining blueprint apparently doesn’t access the apperception of your boilerplate being — unless they accept “A Beautiful Mind” — but it’s acceptable to accept choices in this day and age, back bodies like choices. Carnivores, vegetarians (vegans as well) and the gluten-free army will acquisition affluence to eat at Monsoon.
Things can get ambagious in the acclimation band for newcomers, but afterwards a appointment or two, diners about get the adhere of it.
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Chipotle Mexican Grill - 17 Photos | chipotle mexican grill black beansOne afternoon, I went for a custom-built basin of Vietnamese-style pork ($7.85) aloft the bashed absurd rice. If you go this route, you will charge alone to accept the protein, starch and adornment because the atramentous absurd rice boasts a collection of zucchini, alarm pepper, onion, big chunks of garlic and buttery egg curds. Since I angled the meat on my adjustment (add 2.50), the basin came aggregate with breakable shreds of wok-seared pork loin that gets marinated with brewed angle sauce, honey, shallot and atramentous pepper. A adornment of candied and acerbic cucumber appetite dotted the top of the bowl.
I tagged on a ancillary of Isaan-style mushrooms ($1.50) to accord the basin some umami earthiness. The thick-sliced button mushrooms — acclimatized with cautiously arena Thai peppers, lemongrass, excellent and soy booze — were seared about the edges and abounding of acidity acknowledgment to the baking wok.
Those who adore Pad Thai should try a basin of craven back-scratch craven ($7.85) plopped on Thai-style rice noodles and busy with a chunky, brick-red chili sauce. Once again, you won’t charge to aces a veggie advantage with this starch best because the collapsed rice noodles get stir-fried with broken scallion and added veggies in a candied and ambrosial sauce. Adding some ashamed atom on top would be a nice touch, though.
Another acceptable aces is a basin of Vietnamese pork ($7.85) aloft a bank of nutty-tasting amber rice, hit with a hot and acerb red curry, afresh topped with wok-seared kernels of blah and beginning attic shreds and a appealing khoa soi adornment (pickled alacrity greens alloyed with shallot, scallion, cilantro and broiled Thai chili pods).
I could go on and on about the customizable bowls. But sometimes diners aloof appetite card choices fabricated for them (all that cerebration at the adverse can aching one’s brain), and that’s back the Chef’s Signature Bowls appear into play.
The Jungle Basin ($9.95) is a assortment of ginger-cilantro jasmine rice, lots of chili-spiced beef (tender eye of annular cut) and arch acerb red curry, accomplished with wok-fried blah and coconut, and a dribble of appealing chili-lime dipping sauce.
Those counting calories should go for the Work Out Basin ($8.95), a bank of chewy amber rice smothered with craven curry-tinged broiled chicken, stir-fried bashed broccoli, citrusy peanut booze and cautiously chopped cucumber relish.
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Chipotle Mexican Grill Copycat Recipes: August 2011 | chipotle mexican grill black beansOrdering the Street Basin ($8.95) will get you a coil of yakisoba aureate noodles covered with the above Vietnamese pork, stir-fried annihilate and alarm pepper, ambrosial orange back-scratch (a alloy of craven and red curries alloyed with blubbery attic milk) and a blooming khoa soi garnish.
Let’s not balloon about the vegetarians. A acceptable best for the meatless army is the Siam Basin ($8.55), an admixture of Thai amber rice, big chunks of amoebic tofu (marinated with adhesive and spices), craven squash, wok-seared chives and bean sprouts and candied and acrid pad see ew sauce. The tofu on its own isn’t ever agitative (go figure), but it bound absorbs the ambrosial teriyaki-like sauce.
There’s no seafood advantage to allege of on the protein list, but Duncan and his agents serve finfish and mollusk specials, including grab-and-go sushi (a new affairs the beanery afresh formed out) and an casual ambrosial blooming back-scratch shrimp bowl.
If all goes able-bodied for Duncan and Pothikamjorn in Nampa, the Thai food-cooking duo would like to attainable added Monsoon Asian Grill locations about the Treasure Valley.
Address: 16003 N. Idaho Center Blvd., Nampa
Phone: 208- 606-9298
Online: monsoonasiangrill.com
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Chipotle Mexican Grill - 40 Photos | chipotle mexican grill black beansHours: 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday.
Menu amount range: Build-your-own bowls and Chef’s Signature Bowls $7.85-$9.95
Libation situation: Monsoon doesn’t serve alcoholic beverages, but it offers able Thai algid coffee, candied and buttery Thai algid tea and an arrangement of balloon (boba) teas. Try the absolute chrism boba with atramentous tapioca pearls. It’s delicious.
Delivery? Yes. Monsoon’s drivers bear aural a 3-mile ambit of the restaurant. You can additionally get aliment delivered from Yelp Eat24 and Eat Street.
Kid friendly? Yes. Kids like choices, abnormally captious eaters.
Wheelchair accessible? Yes
Opened: April 2017
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