For dessert, the Philippine-inspired, brown-sugar fried Banana Lumpia is a perfect bite into a hard wrap cover to unleash the mushy and very sweet inside.

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After a decade in which a debt-fueled spree caused the American economy to become as bloated as the late-period Vegas Elvis after a night spent bingeing on amphetamines and fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, it should have come to little surprise to any of us that the post-housing bubble crash was so painful to endure.

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There she serves spicy rose petal salads, spring rolls stuffed with begonias and pansies, and crepe-fried platters of roses, hibiscus, banana flowers and frangipanis.

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There would be fried pies, apple and peach, in the warmer, and a banana puddin' in the icebox.

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The bright yellow and green Ta Bom ( www.tabomtruck.com) serves Brazilian specialties like pasteles (crisp pastries) of ground beef, cheese or banana, and the Hamburgao, a burger piled high with scrambled eggs, bacon, French-fried potato sticks, corn and more.

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