In a corridor off the main street in Pike Place Market lies Oriental Mart, a family-run Filipino lunch stand that whips up homemade traditional fare including salmon tip soup. Salmon tips are usually discarded and rarely available for public purchase. The tips include the meat and anatomy around the gills and pectoral fin and includes some more fatty (and therefore tastier and very tender) pink salmon meat. Served in a sour lemon grass broth with a tamarind and tomato base, the consumption process may take some patience and dissection but the pay-off is well worth the effort.
A block away from the main hub of Pike Place Market is Seattle Coffee Works. We knew that Seattle folk take their coffee very seriously but SCW takes their coffee making to a new scientific level. Enter the vacuum pot, a device that utilizes vacuum filtration to make your pot of coffee. The result is a light-bodied, mellow, and drinkable cup (or carafe) of coffee. The barista refers to it as "coffee tea" which is entirely accurate. Once this coffee is served it is meant to cool which unlocks some of the natural flavors of the coffee; in our case, mild berry, dark cocoa powder and a slight metallic (in a good way) aftertaste.
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