Best meals in Burlington under $10

5. KKD --> rise and shiner
You really can't go wrong with 12 inches of eggs, cheese, breakfast meats of dubious composition and grease-covered potato patties. It could be 1 PM after sleeping in late, or 1 AM after a couple too many drinks around the corner or up the street. Really, there is no specific time of day to consume a 'shiner', seeing as there is no real good way to digest this cardiac catastrophe waiting to happen. This plus a drink will put you back 9 bucks. Feeling cheap? Get a small (it'll certainly add a couple of years to your life to go small rather than large) and the total will barely be over 5 bucks.
4. Bueno Y Sano --> steak burrito
Really, anything mixed with beans, rice, salsa and guacamole and wrapped into a burrito too big to pick up is generally a good thing. Bueno Y Sano, hands down the best gringo Mexican in town, will give you all of this plus a drink for about $8.50. The quality of the food at Bueno is better than that of Mo's, and the portion sizes blow Bolocco out of the water. Really, it's the best of both - quality (relative, of course) AND quantity.
3. Skinny Pancake --> coconut curried potato crepe
The French ghosts of my past may be turning in their graves at the mere mention of a crepe stuffed with curried russet and sweet potatoes (or, to be more specific, the entire business model of the Skinny Pancake, up to and including the name), but I'm willing to ignore the disembodied screams of horror and dismay simply because, well, it's delicious. Spicy, savory, sweet - this crepe may not resemble the traditional French variety, but at 7 dollars, who cares? Though both KKD and Bueno out-do the Skinny Pancake for sheer volume of consumable product, the feeling you get after ingesting this (or, really, anything of the S.P. menu) marvel of culinary blasphemy is one of satisfaction, not of bloated flatulence.
2. Asiana House --> maki rolls
Everyone who's ever eaten sushi will tell you that maki is a very personal. This is why I'm not suggesting specific rolls. When I eat at Asiana (in my opinion, much better than Sakura and far more convenient than Koto), I generally go for Spicy Tuna and then whatever the chef recommends for that day. Two rolls will run you just shy of 10 bucks, so if you're trying to stay under budget, don't order off the (quite extensive) menu of novelty fruity drinks (in some cases more costly than the food itself).
1. Pho Dang --> Pho (Vietnamese beef noodle soup)
Slightly out of the way (about 10 minutes walking distance from downtown Winooski along route 2) Pho Dang is a somewhat seedy, hygienically questionable, horribly decorated establishment. The one waitress can usually be found sprawled across a vacant table texting away on her cell phone, the menus are permanently attached to the tabletops, they have no liqueur license (and therefore no booze in sight) and Vietnamese music usually emanates rather annoyingly from a boombox somewhere in the kitchen. So, you're wondering, why the hell is this the best meal in Burlington? Well, for $6.50, you can happily slurp your way through a piping hot bowl of Pho, Vietnam's (wonderful) gift to the world. Somewhere between ramen, your mom's Matzah Ball soup, and beef stew, Pho (pronounced FUH) is essentially a spicy beef broth with rice noodles, various cuts of rare and well done beef, beef tendon, meatballs, lemongrass, bean sprouts and scallions. You won't look pretty eating it, trust me. Between the broth dribbling off your chin and the chili-induced sweat that will almost certainly develop on your forehead, don't come here if you're trying to lure someone home. Trust me, though, when I say that a bowl of Pho will satisfy every taste receptor in your mouth (in a relatively masochistic way) and will (yes) cure even the most vile of hangovers. If you can look past your surroundings and focus on the food, Pho Dang may well be the best cheap place to get food in Burlington.