I started off the day with a strawberry danish at Caffè Trieste in North Beach. (It can’t always be a chocolate croissant!)
San Francisco 2016 Food Diary, Day 1
San Francisco has a reputation as a great food city. But it’s not like I’m going out for gourmet meals every night. And like any place, eating out can be a hit-or-miss proposition. I can definitely say that I had a good mix of eating over the 2016 sightseeing season in San Francisco.
I started off with a very filling breakfast. Sears Fine Food is a Union Square institution. Their most famous dish is their Swedish pancakes. It may look like they are 6 of them in the picture, but [Read more…]
7 Ways China Exceeded My Expectations
The language issue was a challenge during my trip to China. And I did have some culinary frustrations. But China exceeded my expectations in so many ways. Perhaps my expectations were needlessly low. It didn’t help that my phrasebook had some helpful expressions such as, “What time does the hot water come on?” and “There is a rat in my room.” I read so many warnings about China before my trip. I was sort of expecting the worst. But those [Read more…]
China 2015 Food Diary, Day 11
My last day in China featured my now legendary triumphal dinner. But first, in the morning I migrated from the Beijing DoubleTree to the Hilton at the airport because I had an early flight out the next morning. After checking in, but before taking off for the Summer Palace, I relaxed in the lobby lounge with some fried spring rolls. Nothing like good American-style Chinese food in China!
China 2015 Food Diary, Day 10
Well this is interesting. According to my notes, the first thing I had to eat on Day 10 was garlic bread. You would think I would remember having garlic bread in China. But I don’t. (It must have been overshadowed by the fantastic Italian meal I had the previous evening in Tianjin. Also, it probably wasn’t all that memorable.) I very much recall the fried squid rings I had while exploring in the Houhai area in the afternoon. Hot and tasty!
For dinner, I was excited to go to Crescent Moon, a Uyghur Muslim restaurant. There were 2 waitresses. One was clearly Asian-looking, probably Han Chinese. The other wasn’t Asian looking at all. My guess would have been Greek. Most likely, this waitress was Uyghur, an ethnicity related to Turks. I needed to use the restroom after wandering all day. I went through the door labeled for the restroom. I found myself in the frigid outdoors. I found the (very dark) men’s room up a cold, dark alley. Weird. But this is why we leave our own world to explore others. Right? Right!
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