On Jul 3, 10:08*am, George Leppla > wrote:

> Yep... some good cheese steaks can be found in Allentown, but I'm not
> familiar with Malones rolls. *I know that there has been a continuing
> argument in Philadelphia over whether the best rolls come from
> Amarosos's or the Conshohocken bakery. *I liked them both.
>
> Since I moved to the south (Louisiana) I had given up on ever finding a
> place that made a good cheese steak until recently when I found a very
> good one at a place that specializes in fried catfish. *(Really? *Yeah,
> really!)
>
> Sam's Southern Eatery here in Shreveport has a great reputation for good
> seafood, huge portions and very reasonable prices. *Becca and I ate
> there often and never even noticed that they had a Philly Cheese Steak
> on the menu. *I tried it one day and was surprised at how good it was.
> In Philly, it would get 3 out of five stars... but here in Louisiana, it
> is 5 stars all the way. *http://samssoutherneatery.net/?page_id=2


I lived in L.A. for 23 years. There were tons of "Philly Steak"
places all over town, yet none came close to the ones I knew from my
hometown in PA. The meat was usually too coarse. But worst of all,
the rolls were always too thick and dominant. Now I'm living in NC
and I found the same thing here. But it's not like I went around
searcing for the perfect cheese steak, which by the way I think tastes
better without the cheese - it's just that the ones I encountered
never measured up. Then my brother took me to a place in Greensboro
that had philly cheese steaks on the menu. Theirs too did not measure
up. But it was good. Since then I have learned to forget about
comparing every steak sandwich I eat to the ones I remember from my
hometown.

TJ