out of control good food

We've finally found a really good restaurant on Guam. Really good, like, this-place-would-be-popular-in-New-Orleans good.

It's Meskla Dos, a new hamburger stand started by the chef/owner of Meskla. Meskla is one of two fine-dining-style local retaurants (the other, Proa, we've mentioned on the blog before). Meskla is talked about as being really good but expensive; we've been there once for dinner and once for drinks and appetizers, and it did not live up to its reputation either time. Just not exceptionally tasty. Good, but not delicious.

Meskla Dos, on the other hand, is. just. awesome. As far as I can tell from one visit. Totally casual, paper plates and plastic silverware and counter sevice, but the food was cosmically delicious. Seriously, I am thinking that if one could only have one meal on Guam, this should be it.

So, Nick got a Chamorro barbecue plate, with dried beef and smoked pork, and he said it was great. Came with red rice and macaroni salad (which I ate for him, since it included eggs and creamy sauce). I had a PBLT - that's pork belly, lettuce and tomato. Oh. My. Goodness. I believe they simmer the half-inch-thick slices of pork belly to get them tender, then fry them in a deep fryer to get them crispy, and then drop 'em on the sandwich with lettuce and tomato, red onion and mayonnaise. Just heavenly! (though there are no good tomatoes on Guam. It's just as well, because if the sandwich had been any more delicious - if it had actually included a slice of a perfectly ripe heirloom tomato - I probably would have just died right there).

And the sweet potato fries! Would you believe that they were even better than in New Orleans?
They were.

So, I'm really excited. This place makes up for something we lost leaving NOLA: food that is casual and inexpensive but really, really good. Food that proves you don't have to be wealthy to live well.

Luckily it is in an inconvenient location, because otherwise we'd probably start gaining weight really quickly...