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fwiw the com tam is my go-to there. it's broken rice with grilled pork chop and a fried egg, super comforting and not spicy at all. the pork has this nice charred flavor from the grill and the scallion oil on top adds a lot. plus it comes with that sweet fish sauce to pour over everything, which is way easier to eat on a date than wrapping stuff in lettuce leaves. they're on weserstraße right near u-bahn hermannplatz btw, easy to find

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for a date i'd actually go with the cari ga, the chicken curry. it's got this creamy coconut base with lemongrass and turmeric, barely any heat but super aromatic. comes with a baguette to soak up the sauce, which is way more romantic than it sounds. just split it and share, looks good on a date

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If you want something that feels special without being a production to eat, go for the bún thịt nướng. It's cold rice vermicelli with grilled pork, fresh herbs, peanuts, and that same tangy fish sauce dressing everyone's mentioning. No assembly required, just toss it together at the table and eat. It's light enough that you won't be stuffed halfway through your date, and the char on the pork is the real highlight. They're on Weserstraße near U Hermannplatz, just past the späti on the corner.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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