Recipes and Destinations Travel for coffee lovers

• Coffee mocktails served at Starbucks Seattle
• Dalgona Coffee
• Espresso Martini, cocktail
• Ginseng Coffee
• Rwanda Huye Coffee (destination, origin)

Skirt Steak recipes

 skirt steak recipes

instapot beef soup

skirt steak with chimichurri sauce

Tea concepts, locations and shops

 Interesting tea concept, store, shop in SF, the center Sf tea movement., .Tea | Yoga | Events | Community  community, https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-center-sf-san-francisco

Customized Oreo

Did you know you can customize Oreo's by printing your friend's photo on the Oreo and coat it with all kinds of sprinkles? It's not cheap, a batch easily run upwards of $60 with shipping. You get the choices like red velvet dipped in white chocolate and birthday cake sprinkles. You can customize your image, make it for graduation, birthday and other celebrations. 

https://www.oreo.com/oreoid-1

Poached Pear Recipes

 Jerusalem: A Cookbook: Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi

ottolengi’s Jerusalem poached pear recipe

Get your book here (amazon referral) https://amzn.to/3wQDIqP

Foodie Blogs

the korean vegan https://thekoreanvegan.com/ It's hard to be Vegan in Korea. It's hard to carry the soul of Korean cooking while being vegan. This blog explores the impossible. The woks of life https://thewoksoflife.com/ Best Asian American cooking on the go. Even when camping, and for the dinner table alike. Worth a solid read.

Crab recipes, seafood, crab as ingredient

 Why Stone Crab Claws Are So Expensive | So Expensive

Robin (Sushi) Hayes Valley

 The most impressive shaved foie gras snow wagyu

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Love that they have unique pottery and wood art work by local artists on the wall. They also showcase their pickle jars on a shelf.  

Coit Tower TeleGraph Hill (San Francisco) Food and Events and Travel Destinations

•  There's a Levi office here, located in a beautiful red-brick look Levi's Plaza. 
• Parking is available at Public Garage for Levi's Plaza. It is pricy, but there's early bird for weekdays, Saturday discount with Exploratorium validation. Sunday it is closed. It's a short walk to Coit Tower (up till) and a very short walk to Levi's Plaza. Personally, as a local, I would park in the garage, so your car windows wouldn't get broken during street parking. 
• Co-working space : SPACE located across the street from Levi's Plaza. Away from Coit Tower, closer to the bay and piers. 
• Off the Grid (food truck) Early August 2022 schedule Tue | Wed | Thu 11am - 2pm. There were 3 trucks.   

Tuile (cooking technique)

 Tuile is the wafer thin, crunchy decoration that you see on food. Tastes great. 

"A tuile IPA (key): /twiːl/ is a baked wafer, French in origin, generally arced in shape, that is made most often from dough (but also possibly from cheese), often served as an accompaniment of other dishes.[1] Tuile is the French word for tile, after the shape of roof tiles that the arced baked good most often resembles.[2] Tuiles are commonly added as garnishes to desserts such as panna cotta or used as edible cups for sorbet or ice cream.[3]"

- wikipedia

Blue Lingcod (fish)

 Unique fish. The body is completely blue inside. Turquoise color. 

Famous chefs and bakers you should know around the world

Anthony Bourdain 

Jose Andres - Spanish chef, owns multiple restaurants, dessert shops, famous humanitarian chef, guest lecturer at Harvard

Elias Läderach - World Chocolate Master 2018 

Edward Brown (monk and bread maker)

Dominique Ansel baker

Dominique Crenn

Nobu Matsuhisa - owner of NOBU

Star Anise

Star anise is a spice used in Chinese cuisine. You can find ample star anise in Sichuan hot pot. It is also recently trending as a garnish in artisan cocktails. Did you know Italy also uses star anise? It is not just an Asian spice. 

"Cremas (Kremas or Cremasse) is a popular drink in Haiti and is served regularly at social events and during the holidays. " https://haitiancooking.com/recipe/cremas-kremas-or-cremasse/

COQUITO – CLASSIC PUERTO RICAN CHRISTMAS DRINK RECIPE

These are the absolut drink recipe with star anise. Above drinking age only. Don't visit if you are under. https://www.absolutdrinks.com/en/drinks/with/star-anise/ Star anise can also go with another wonderful spice - cinnamon to make great cocktails. Star anise with Carnation caramel cocktail makes a spiced Vodka cocktail. 

"Star anise is the major source of the chemical compound shikimic acid, a primary precursor in the pharmaceutical synthesis of the antiinfluenza drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu)" - wikipedia. That's pretty insane surprising trivia. 

Fancy Instant Coffee and Drinks

Instant Coffee

Copper cow Vietnamese coffee the coffee is very Smokey and dense quite like what you would expect in Vietnamese coffee

Doorman coffee Kenya. It may be shocking to know that Kenya exports so much coffee, and Kenyans don't get to enjoy the fruits of their own labor. The coffee offerings within the nation aren't as glam as it is outside. But people find solace in the intense, easy and nostalgic Doorman instant coffee. It's simple, coarse, does the job with a bit less caffeine, and can be found in hotels. Offers a fragrant aromatic. 

Origami Starbucks Coffee in Japan. In Japan, even the Starbucks instant coffee is fancy. The origami set (origami is Japanese paper folding art) comes with a paper drip that unfolds and holds Starbucks coffee for "instant" drip. This tiktok video shows how it works. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRR1dWTf/?k=1

 Japan green tea, 

There's also instant tea!

Crystal tea

Vietnamese American and Vietnamese Recipes - Recipes from around the world

 Vietnamese Crab With Tamarind And Chili (Cua Rang Me) https://rasamalaysia.com/crab-with-tamarind-and-chili-recipe/ Cool use of an unique sauce - Tamarind sauce. 

Chili Crab Recipe

 Variations of chili crab recipe in South East Asia. What’s fascinating is that Singapore, Vietnam and Kenya (remember the cave?) all have versions of chili crab. To my greatest delight, they make use of the Tamarind in all three locations. One of my favorite unique ingredient that is in some parts of Asia as well as Africa! I tasted Tamarind in a neighbor’s house. It has capturing flavors that I thought deeply about. 

• Singapore chili crab, mild, not too spicy
• This chef explains Singapore chili crab so well. Though not ideal, it is possible to make it without the shrimp paste. https://youtu.be/l2ToW0IDG1U He explains the melting pot of Singapore food scene so well. The recipe end up a bit on the spicy side. 
• https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/240523/singapore-chili-crabs/
• Kenya : green chili crab served in its shell. 
• Mud crab in tamarind and chilli sauce https://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/mud-crab-tamarind-and-chilli-sauce

Is sourdough more nutritious than white bread, or the regular baguette?

Can bread be nutritious? Can bread be healthy? 

It is not necessarily so. 

White bread has been associated with gluten and carbs, but can bread be healthy and nutritious? What about sourdough bread, sourdough baguette, is that healthy? Zen matter foodie

Researchers founder that breads affect people differently, but there’s no significant difference between the two bread no the same person, including affect on gut bacteria. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/sourdough-versus-white-bread/529260/

Sauces around the Bay Area and Beyond

Starting year 2020, we have cooked more at home. Our pantry has grown with spices, sauces. Restaurants have created the beloved version of their bestselling dishes, crystalized in these lovely jars. Let's meet some of the sauces foodie will love. 

Lee Kum Kee Black bean sauce : supermarket ranch99 available, generic sauce, saltier than the homecooking version in Asia. It is useful for some cantonese and hong kong style dishes

HarborView SF, a favorite new Dim Sum place in the Embarcadero Center, R&G Loung Alumni, created their House Special X.O Sauce.

Red boat fish sauce: Christina Ha, the self-made blind chef who won masterchef recommends this generic yet super useful all purpose fish sauce. 

Sweet gyoza sauce : not every black, dark Japanese sauce is soy sauce, every Japanese sauce has subtle umami and difference, check out the generic sweet gyoza sauce, can be found in Nijiya, it is great for many usage, including panseared gyoza

Yank Sing has their house special chili sauce.

Hunan

Food to try at San Francisco!

 San Francisco semi-native for a decade recommend unique food to try in San Francisco:

• SPRO : Japanese American coffee truck turned cafe shop with unique mocktail like coffee drinks Pixie dust cold yuzu, cold fashioned cold brew with torched orange peel mimicking old fashioned, mardi gra with gold, 
• Thai Farmhouse : modern Thai cuisine, instagram perfect
• Family cafe: Japanese curry katsu Sando sandwich
• la fantastique 22 franklin street chef robbiewilson
• In Situ (CLOSED) : SFMOMA museum restaurant, features chef creations around the world, sometimes serve museum art inspired food, creates food inspired by art exhibition upstairs
• Toasty : toasts, charcuterie board, avocado toast, fancy toast
• Mama Liang : Chinese / Taiwanese dumplings togo
• Craftsman and Wolves contemporary bakery, serves art like, modern baked goods https://www.craftsman-wolves.com/
• Bakery
• B Patisserie
• kouign amann
• Dandelion chocolate 
• Dessert
• Feng Cha Sea Salt Pearl Cake
• Japanese Food
• PABU : contemporary Japanese sushi, pub, bar, robata yaki
• Ippudo : fancy ramen
• Store to try in San Francisco:
• West Fungi : mushroom specialist, they also have fresh wasabi and truffle sometimes
• Epicurean cafe: gourmet food store, spices, condiments and fancy liqueur