It's been an obscenely long time since I've parked myself inside The Hangar, so it was high time to right that wrong.

The Short Rib Shaksuka ($23++) has been critically acclaimed by Jayne, Veronica and many others repeatedly. Thus, after some deliberation, I ordered one. I'm not exactly renowned for making good life decisions, but ordering the shaksuka was definitely one of the best choices I've made so far.

A truckload of tremendously tender pulled beef short rib goes for a swim in a mildly spicy, tantalizingly tangy and utterly umami tomato paste. The bubbling, sensationally savory stew is then blanketed generously with a layer of cheese before the cast iron pot is baked to perfection to melt all that cheese into a magnificent, molten mess.

One egg is then cracked atop the boiling hot shaksuka as the crowning glory before it gets served with a few slices of Hangar's hearty baked in-house sourdough bread. Get all your photos in as fast as you can though, because that egg is gonna go from lava-like and runny to cooked through before you can grunt in pleasure.

With this short rib shaksuka, you definitely ain't getting shortchanged.

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