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My pop used to make something conceptually the same for me for breakfast when I was a kid. However, instead of starting the egg and tossing in an ice cube, he'd add a whole tomato, sliced, to a hot, oiled frying pan. After a short bit, just after the cell walls of the tomato slices broke down to release a little juice, he'd add a couple of eggs to the pan. This would allow them to fry a decent bit before the tomato released enough liquid to create a decent steam. He would then cover the pan and allow the steam to cook the tops of the eggs. Finish this off with a bit of salt and pepper or garlic salt, and then eat it with toast. It's greatness.

unhatched--

If I recall correctly, there's also a pretty terrific tofu and soy milk place over that way as well.

Oh for the days of the Choco Taco at Taco Bell.

I find them at the local Walgreens these days. As a matter of fact, as soon as I'm over my current bout of a jaw-pain-inducing ear infection, I think I'll have one.

Filet-o-Fish sandwiches always make me think of Towing Jehovah by Joseph Morrow. It's basically a book about a crew of people who are given the task of towing God's corpse to its eventual hiding place, and what happens to people when the thing that they center their moral compass on no longer exists. At any rate, the cook for the crew is an gastronomic magician of sorts who can recreate any fast food dish. When the crew runs out of food, they start feasting on God's body...and aforementioned cook makes God's nipple into Filet-o-Fish sandwiches.

Interestingly enough, one of the first things I remember seeing in Chiang Mai over twenty years ago was a Burger King. I had been staying with family in a town a couple of hours away for about a month...and had started, for whatever reason, to absolutely fiend for ketchup. Yeah, I don't get it either. We were traveling into Chiang Mai to visit a nearby mountaintop Wat, and had just been on a rather harrowing bus ride--did you know that a narrow two-lane mountain road could fit 4 vehicles side-by-side with one being a large truck and another a travel bus? Yeah, me neither. At any rate, I remember riding into Chiang Mai and seeing the heavy forestation open up to my very first sight of the city--a Burger King. I later begged my mother to go there for lunch so I could finally get my ketchup fix. There are three things I immediately visualize whenever I think of Chiang Mai: German tourists, Italian restaurants, and Burger King.

The carcass--for soups!