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With all this garbage talk from NYC to LA about city officials revoking food truck permits, I decided to go out and support SF food trucks yesterday. Supporting them, meaning, EATING LUNCH. It’s the best kind of support, right? Viva La Food Truck!

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2:24 pm | Tags: budget, Chinese, Eat Out, Food Trucks, San Francisco Bay Area
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We stumbled across this place, Wow Bao, on the ground floor of a huge, blingy, 80’s-style mall on Michigan Avenue. My friend Ido had mentioned it to me, so I was ecstatic that we randomly came across it. A fast food joint of exclusively Chinese steamed
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2:14 am | Tags: Chicago, Chinese, Eat Out, fast food, tech, The Chicago Ten
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One of my loyal Monday night regulars brought me these on the other week. A bag full of Chinese sausages! YAY! He grew up in  San Francisco and swears that this one butcher in Chinatown, Mao Lee, makes them the best (somewhere around
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12:41 pm | Tags: Chinese, Meat, Meat Watch
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Had a chance to go see my acupuncturist in Chinatown while I was in NYC. My body is falling apart on me these days from being on my feet all day, everyday. Dr. Wu on Baxter–
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11:55 am | Tags: Chinese, dumplings, Eat Out, New York, XLB
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So I’m back in the metropolitan New York area from my travels in the Midwest, where I had a little too much time to nosh. Along the street I lived on were several Chinese food joints which tempted me in
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3:28 am | Tags: Battle, Chinese, Eat Out, minneapolis, Take Out
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Trailing on the coattails of Yoko’s earlier Umamiventure post to the SAME EXACT RESTAURANT in Tokyo, I am finally ready to unveil the greatness that was Din Tai Fung (DTF) in LA. The only
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5:50 am | Tags: Chinese, dim sum, dumplings, Eat Out, Los Angeles
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I have a new obsession- they come in these little bite-size sacks, filled with pork, crab and a touch of soup. Xiao long bao, aka XLB, soup dumplings!!! In NYC, I loved the dumplings
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11:39 am | Tags: Chinese, dumplings, Eat Out, San Francisco Bay Area, Saratoga
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A culinary walk at dawn late last December.

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8:07 am | Tags: Calcutta, Chinese, India
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Scrolling through my camera card, I just found pictures of Ayagwa and Tmonkey’s Chinese Banquet Wedding!!!! I’m sorry I am super tardy on this, but it was seriously one of the best wedding meals I’ve ever had (the other being Leslie’s Siena wedding), so I need
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11:19 am | Tags: Chinese, Eat Out, New York, Wedding
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I am totally into food. Add my friend who is also totally into food, and you get a Pepto Bismol-inducing food frenzy. On one such occasion, we visited perhaps the only authentic Chinese joint in
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8:17 pm | Tags: Cake, Chinese, Cleveland, dessert, Eat Out
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