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The 10 Best Food Halls in America
Photo by cyclotourist/Flickr Why choose one restaurant for dinner when you could choose dozens? There’s a food hall and farmer’s market renaissance happening around the country, and if you visit any of...
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San Francisco’s Most Unique Brunches
Sam’s Anchor Cafe. Photo by albedo20 / Flickr The generally accepted story of brunch originates in England in 1895 with a man named Guy Berginer and his essay “Brunch: A Plea.” Beringer argued for...
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The Best Chinese Probably Isn’t In Chinatown
Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive In perusing the various food message boards, a recurring request which makes me a little sad is the one from first time visitors to places like San...
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A Tale of Three Cities: Finding Chinese Food in San Francisco
Photo by TiffanyWan When the topic of Chinese food in the United States comes up, only three cities really come to mind: San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. Besides a deserved reputation for...
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Sichuan and Snacks: The Times Are A-Changin’ in San Francisco Chinatown
photo by SMcGarnigle As I have previously written, for the first century of their presence, Chinese American communities were almost exclusively populated by immigrants from rural Toishan outside of...
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10 Restaurants Where You’ll Want to Try Every Part of the Animal
Photo by Travis/Flickr Filet mignon and roast chicken have their place, but for more adventurous diners, it’s all about the offal. Offal, a word with Germanic origins, literally means off-fall,...
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San Gabriel Hotels Usher New Phase in Chinese Dining
Kung Pao Prawns. Photo by Opal. Hotel dining isn’t generally an interesting topic of discussion. With a few notable exceptions, people dining in hotels usually don’t want to bother to look for...
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Does My “20-Year Rule” for Chinese Restaurants Still Stand?
Ocean Star Seafood in 2006. Photo by Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times Five years ago, I wrote a Menuism article about why I generally did not eat at Chinese restaurants in the United States that were...
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The Arrival of Guangzhou-Style Cantonese Food
Dim sum at H.L. Peninsula. Photo: H.L. Peninsula / Facebook. All other photos by David R. Chan In the past decade, Chinese dining in the United States popularized “Mainlander food,” or non-Cantonese...
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Can Chinese cooking survive new environmental codes?
Over the past two centuries, the Chinese community and its cuisine have endured several forms of discrimination. The Chinese exclusion laws of the late 1880s left Chinese food in America exclusively...
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