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November 2009
17 posts
Bay Area $ 3 pigs
Dutch Crunch, Why don’t we have that in LA . . . Ike’s Place
Ike’s Place in San Francisco is a local sandwich place that has a bread called Dutch Crunch. Dutch Crunch is a type of sourdough that a bit crunchy, yet not too hard, that is only found in SF. I reall
American $$ Bay Area
Cav Wine Bar
On a chilly dark November night, an unsuspecting friend was smuggled into the unknown . . . Cav. My friends brought me for some drinks at a downtown SF wine bar called Cav. Nice little place with spra
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SGV San Marino San Gabriel Valley
Yoshida, San Marino
My personal sushi policy as I have stated here is a quirky, one might say. I feel that you should stay with one particular sushi restaurant to develop a personal relationship with the place. Get to kn
American Bay Area Breakfast
Holder’s Country Inn, Cupertino
Originally, I wanted to focus on hole-in-the-walls and breakfast joints, but I got a bit sidetracked. Holder’s Country Inn is a place I would have posted about either way.
Bay Area American Tapas
Pintxo 47 at the Google Campus
A good friend of mine, who works at Google, invited me to have lunch at their main campus recently. She choose Pintxo 47, since this week the menu is inspired by Thomas Keller. Pintxo 47 is the Google
Foodbuzz Food Truck Taco Truck
Foodbuzz
In the beginning of November, I attended a food festival in San Francisco. Foodbuzz invite me and other bloggers to their 1st annual Foodbuzz Blogger Festival. It was a wonderful event meeting other b
Seafood Hole In the Wall Noodles
Mario’s Peruvian & Seafood
Went to this amazing peruvian place on a Wednesday night cause if you go on a weekend night, it’s like an hour wait. This place has been around forever and is arguably the best in town…hence the long
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SGV Arcadia San Gabriel Valley
Liang’s Village Cuisine, Arcadia (Closed)
In the 1st half of the last century, there was a large migration of Chinese to the small island country of Taiwan. Most were in the military following Chiang Kai Shek. They settled in little pockets i
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SGV Sgv San Gabriel Valley
Half & Half, SGV
You don’t usually find guys at a tea house on a weekday afternoon. With my flexible schedule, I was able to invade this oasis usually reserved for the estrogen genders. There’s actually a lot of cute
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Palo Alto
Dohatsuten, Palo Alto
Dohatsuten is a nice little find in the South Bay of Northern Cal. Who says there isn’t good food down here. The South Bay resembles Southern California with its diversity of ethnic cuisine. And Dohat
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San Jose Bay Area
Holder’s Country Inn, San Jose
Yelphttps://www.yelp.com/biz/holders-country-inn-san-jose-2
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San Jose Vietnamese 2 pigs
Pho Kim Long, San Jose
Yelphttps://www.yelp.com/biz/pho-kim-long-restaurant-san-jose
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San Francisco Bay Area
Ike’s Place, San Francisco
When we first got to Ike’s Place, at 11:30am, there was already a line outside the door – 10 deep. By the time we got our food, the line extended even longer. This hole-in-the-wall sandwich shop draws
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Sgv San Gabriel Valley
Ono Hawaiian Grill, SGV
Hawaiian Fast Food Chain Some argue that it is better than L&L Has my favorites – Spam Musabi and Kalua pork Doesn’t have all of my favorites – like Lomi lomi and lau lau Just fast food, SGV doesn’t r
Sgv Rowland Heights San Gabriel Valley
Curry House, Rowland Heights
Curry House, a chain from Japan, specializes in a simple meat on rice meal with curry. Americans and people all over the world need their protein, in this case meat, with a starch, rice. As a friend o
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Los Angeles Rowland Heights San Gabriel Valley
Country Bistro, Rowland Heights (Closed)
Country Bistro appears to be a typical Taiwanese restaurant that you’ll find in San Gabriel valley or in Rowland Heights area. But alas, their secret sauce is their soups – herbal soups, in fact. They