The most random thing happened to me today. While walking to Chinatown for lunch, I passed by a brand new cupcake window stand. It was really ghett-looking because it was tiny and still brand new, but the cupcakes weren’t ghetto at all. It was so new – just opened that day – that they didn’t [...]
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I’ve mentioned the blueberry mousse served at my current favorite bakery in Chinatown, Yummy Bakery and Cafe, but now, I want to mention their milk egg tart (鮮奶蛋撻). Everyone is familiar with Chinese egg tarts (蛋撻), but a lot of people don’t know that they come in different variations. My favorite is actually the milk [...]
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I’d consider the salt and pepper chicken wings from Capital Restaurant to be one of the hidden gems of Chinatown when it comes to food. Just about every Chinese person from San Francisco who loves chicken wings knows of Capital’s reputation. The wings always come very crispy and piping hot – sometimes, the juice squirts [...]
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I’ve been hooked on the Yummy Bakery and Cafe in Chinatown since it opened a couple months ago. It’s probably the cleanest bakery in Chinatown, plus everything is really good. One of their newest items that caught my attention is their blueberry mousse. It comes in a cup so it’s convenient to eat, and it’s [...]
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In our quest to find the best lemon chicken in Chinatown, Candy and I tried out Great Hunan Restaurant. Walking by all the pictures of the deep fried and sauced up chickens posted on their window finally caught on to us. Just by looking at the outside, you could tell that it’s generally a White [...]
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The Tuttimelon in Chinatown/North Beach reopened this weekend, now as a self-serve frozen yogurt shop and as a hybrid store along with Tea Way, i.e., they now offer pearl milk tea drinks and fried snacks. They also still serve gelato (since they also used to be Yoogo Gelato). They were offering free frozen yogurt today [...]
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Everyone raves about the honey chili chicken at Chef Jia’s Restaurant, but I’m really digging their honey chili prawns. The prawns are huge, battered, fried to a nice crisp, and sauced up in a honey chili sauce, giving a sweet and mildly spicy flavor. I also tried the lemon chicken, which was not bad. The [...]
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We had a small get-together for lunch at R & G Lounge to celebrate Lina’s birthday. The hot and sour soup was a little on the sour side. The beef chow fun was a bit greasy but not bad. The dried scallops egg white fried rice I liked – it had some parts harder/dryer, which [...]
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Another workday, another lunch in Chinatown with Candy, this time at The Pot Sticker in Waverly Place alley. We originally wanted to go for Chinese donuts and soybean milk (油條豆漿) but ended up getting other stuff. We wanted four pieces of potstickers, but the woman marked us down for eight … again! We wanted something [...]
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I had lunch with Anita at Bund Shanghai in Chinatown. In addition to our usual soup dumpling (小籠包) and noodle soup order, this time being the eight treasure noodle soup, we also got their pan-fried dumplings, or in Chinese, sheng jian bao (生煎包). It was amazingly good. It was moist and crispy at the same [...]
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