I have a favorite dim sum restaurant in San Francisco (Ton Kiang). I have a favorite dim sum restaurant in the Peninsula (Fook Yuen). But if you ask me where I go for dim sum in the East Bay, I turn up empty-handed. So a few months ago, I tried out Legendary Palace in Oakland, [...]
When it comes to Chinese cuisine in the Bay Area, San Francisco gets most of the attention, and deservedly so. But there are gems all over the place, particularly in the East Bay. It took me a few years to discover Great China Restaurant in Berkeley, and once I did, I was hooked. Peking duck [...]
Several years ago, Straits Restaurant on Geary Street was my favorite restaurant in San Francisco. Their Singaporean dishes were out of this world, and it was conveniently close to where I lived at the time. Then it moved to the Westfield Centre and color me biased, but sticking a restaurant in the middle of a [...]
What do you do when you have a bunch of odds and ends in your refrigerator? Why, you make dumplings, of course. A little bit of this, a little bit of that, and you’ve got some of the most satisfying dumplings you’ve ever tasted. I made these one night when I had half a package [...]
I’m probably going to get a lot of flack for saying this, but Flavor Bistro is overrated. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good, but too many people in Sonoma County talk about Flavor Bistro as if it is the only restaurant serving good-quality, local fare. When it opened in Santa Rosa a few years ago, [...]