#69. Fatteh at Kareem's Restaurant

• Fellas, come on over, I'll make you fatteh Egyptian-style. Layers of rice and bread, covered with stock and bits of beef or chicken, then topped with fried garlic and, wait for it.....vinegar. Tastiest damn thing ever.

• I would much rather read about these lesser known and ethnically diverse dishes available in Orange County than In n Out. Good thing Fisted Sock Puppet isn't filling this list up with chain fast-food restaurants as he seems to wish it were. I do appreciate this list for informing us of restaurants and ethnic dishes that we otherwise might never have heard of.

• Ahem...I like this feature and have discovered at least a few items I loved that I wouldn't have thought to order otherwise.

• ...Because our readers know better than to waste their time with a fool like you. We, on the other hand, get paid to do so�and we thank you for your stupidity!

• You know you are 100% right on when only the writers of the list in question come to it's defense and not a single reader offers its support.

• This list is for the open-minded. It's not for the closed-minded or those who care not to use their minds at all.

• These are 100 of OUR favorite dishes. We hold a popularity contest every year for the readership's favorite places: last year you all decided that <a href="http://blogs.ocweekly.com/stickaforkinit/indigestion/is-there-anything-salvageable-1/">Javier's was the best restaurant in the county</a> (a real WTF moment, I might add). As much as some people in OC would love to pretend otherwise, this county has a huge number of "ethnic" restaurants. We're 30% foreign-born here and nearly a third of us are Latino; a sixth are Asian. If you actually went and tried all 100 dishes when we're done (which, by the way, we would totally link to if you blogged it) you might discover that you like some of these unique, ethnic eats. You also conveniently left off the American dishes that are on there. I mean, beef fat fries are about as American as it gets. Strawberry shortcake, frozen custard, collard greens, teriyaki bowls, all very American. I'm sorry, but In-N-Out isn't the best burger in Orange County. It isn't even the fifth best burger in Orange County. Please stay tuned to the list for better burgers. As for how it works, we all pick our own and the only reason it gets rejected is if someone else wants it for closer to the top of the list.

• Fisted: Yours just might be the dumbest comment ever left on this page. Ever thought maybe we're saving the "American" dished for the higher spots on our listings? And what bothers you so much about ethnic dishes, anyway? Spell out the white race with a capital W? Finally, this is a list of the best dishes in Orange County, not the "favorite" dishes, whatever the hell that means. If you want safe crap, go read Fast Food Maven.

• It is so clear that this is not the favorite 100 dishes of Orange County. Rather its the 100 most ethnic dishes of OC or maybe even the top 100 most unique dishes in OC. Does someone recommend something like IN-N-Out Burgers and Gustavo chimes in saying "We can't print that, we need to show everyone how non conformist we are and how how we are not normal people like everyone else. We need to showcase how these pendejo's don't know shit. Lets go with the Fatteh piece instead" I mean seriously: Lamb with Preserved Cabbage at Mas Islamic Chinese Fatteh at Kareem's Restaurant Beans on Toast at The Olde Ship Silken Tofu & Thousand Year Old Egg at Asian Tapas 5 a.m. Chitterlings at Tri-Village

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