Custom Burger

121 7th St
San Francisco, CA 94102

Occasion: Grabbing a quick dinner before watching WICKED! Supposedly, this was on the travel channel.

Half regular fries and Half sweet potatoe fries

The sweet potato fries were awesome and overpowered the regular cut fries. I usually like fresh cut fries. It's good to have a taste of both!

Kobe Beef Burger

with mushrooms, bleu cheese and avocado

I honestly would not have been able to decipher between kobe beef and angus beef because it tasted like angus beef to me. Loved the bleu cheese crumbles. It was better than an In and Out burger but it just tasted ok to me. Did not stand out much. Just the way you order is different.

It came with a pickle

AJ's Place

Occasion: Tuesday night March Bday planning! Planning= not too successful, but filling our stomachs was extremely successful!

Tuna Tartar

with scallions, cilantro, chipotle, capers and lime juice

I first tried this when AJ made it at our girls holiday kris kringle potluck get together. This time, I got to see how she prepared it. I even helped cut the scallions and the cilantro. Went well with the big tortilla chip like things she had. I had to try to keep away from the chipotle because it was sooo spicy. Next time without the chipotle please=]

Lettuce with feta cheese

This is just half of the dish. It was used to make an eggplant salad. Drizzle some olive oil and top it off with pan fried eggplants and it is absolutely DELICIOUS!!!

Pan Fried Japanese Eggplants
Sliced and fried the eggplants with olive oil. Easy and cooks pretty fast. It has its own natural sweetness. Eat it with romaine lettuce and feta cheese and it's absolutely amazing.

Sauteed prawns

Sauteed with some oil and salt and pepper. For me I dipped it with soysauce, for AJ and Zoe they dipped it into this really spicy sauce. I love prawns and its natural sweetness. DELICIOUS.

Foreign Cinema

2534 Mission St

San Francisco, CA 94110

Occasion: Dine about town!

Smoked Salmon

with chick pea hummus, radishes, shaved fennel, creme fraiche, Turkish pepper

It was really thinly sliced, which I like. The chickpea hummus was full of flavor and went perfectly with the smoked salmon. We cut pieces of the smoked salmon and placed it on top of the complimentary bread they provided. On top of the salmon we added the chickpea hummus, which was absolutely delish. It's a must get appetizer that will not fail to please your taste buds. YUM!

Natural beef carpaccio

with mache, farm egg, fried capers, waffled potatoes
Another great appetizer that we ordered! Love it when its thinly sliced. One of my favorite places that I've had carpaccio. The meat itself was full of flavor, not like a lot of the other places where I've had it. In Vietnamese restaurants I'm used to the sweet flavor of the fish sauce drenched in lemon juice and onions and cilantro. Beef carpaccio at Italian restaurants are a bit too tangy in flavor for me. It lacks flavor. But I love it here!! Maybe its the waffled potatoes that add flavors to the carpaccio or the flavor of the farm egg. It was absolutely delicious.

Pan-fried Pacific true cod

with fingerling potatoes, Napa cabbage slaw, sauce gribiche
This was offered on the dine about town menu that night. Delicious. Although I'm not a big fan of pan fried fish, this was very tasty. The skin was fried to the perfect golden brown. The fingerling potatoes lacked a little bit in flavor, but I still enjoyed it. I love starchy foods and I love potatoes. I wish there were more pieces served. Not too big of a fan of the cabbage slaw.

Madras curry fried chicken

with apple chickory greens, Capay farms sweet potato mash
While we were waiting to be seated, I could have sworn that almost every table had a serving of this dish. It looked really appetizing and we decided to get one to try. It's not just regular fried chicken, it was curry fried chicken. It was so different and so good. I also loved the sweet potato mash.

Rose Creme Brulee
I loved that it was a rose flavor. It made the dessert taste more refreshing. Definitely something different and it makes the dessert taste less rich. Worth giving a try. We enjoyed the dessert.

My Canh

626 Broadway(at Grant Ave)
San Francisco, CA 94133

Occasion: Late night munchies!

Egg Rolls

Tasted good late at night. Anything fried tastes good late at night.

Beef Carpaccio

I love it best from vietnamese restaurants. Although it's not the best, it definitely satisfied my late night craving for it. I love it when they put a lot of cilantro and onions. YUM


Bun Rieu
Edible, but horrible. The soup base did not taste like tomato at all. It was definitely lacking in all ingredients that would be needed to make an authentic bowl of bun rieu. Granted it was 2am, but still, you should have all your ingredients in stock...unless...this is how they make it. Not good enough for me.

Chouchou

400 Dewey Blvd
San Francisco, CA 94116

Occasion: Dine about town with the girls!

Frisee Salad

AMAZING! Loved the pancetta bits in the salad. The poached egg was perfect. Love the blend of flavors in the salad. The waiter highly recommended it and I'm glad I got it.

Mussels

The bowl was huge!! The flavor of the mussel was nothing that I've tasted before. It was cooked in white wine which definitely added a kick to it. One of my friends said, "These are the best mussels I've ever had." This dish was the most worth it and stood out the most out of all our dishes that night.

Salmon

with tuna tartar and a bit of fettucine

The piece of salmon was very small and dry. There were barely a handful of tuna tartar, which only tasted mediocre. Fettucine was also just a handful and tasted very bland. This dish did not impress me at all.

Filet Mignon

with spinach and a ball of fried risotto and goat cheese

The portion of meat was very little. Seemed like a 4oz piece of meat, but we were informed that it would be a 10oz-11oz of meat. The sweet sauce went well with the meat. Spinach was drenched in the sauce, making it a bit too sweet. The fried ball was different. Definitely not something I'm used to. Love the rich taste of goat cheese that went well with the risotto. Overall the dish was just ok.

My medium rare filet and the fried ball of surprise

Strawberry Bruscetta with mint coulis and vanilla ice cream
It was a very refreshing dessert. Fruits and ice cream. It was good, nothing spectacular, but it still pleased the taste buds.

Pear Tart

Delicious. I didn't think I'd like it, but the crust was delicious! Tasted really fresh and its so worth getting.