Alan Wong’s Restaurant munchies review

Located conveniently (or maybe not so conveniently) on South King Street, in an unassuming narrow three-story office-type tenement, Alan Wong’s dining room overlooks lush Manoa Valley scenery that’s unfortunately blocked by a bunch of apartment buildings and condos, dammit (just kidding, I love the skyline… “Honolulu city liiiights”). This is a big tip: reserve [...]

MUNCHIES [CA] . Masa’s Sushi

If you’re going to put your name on something, especially an eatery, you’d better make damn sure it’s good. Masastugi Uehara proudly parks not only his name on Masa’s Sushi in Mountain View but his smiling face on his website. Masa is not a behind-the-scenes kind of entrepreneur. He’s always behind the [...]

Jamba Juice Coupon . Buy one smoothie, get one FREE!

I can’t believe someone is trying to sell this web coupon for $3.25 on eBay with “free shipping”. Capitalism at its finest, hehe.

MUNCHIES . Wallaby Organic Yogurt

My last attempt at organic yogurt (Trader Joe’s vegan soy I think?) was my last. Or so I thought. With organic foods on the rise and on the cheap (well, cheapER than they used to be), I found cute little tapered containers of Wallaby Organic Yogurt in the refrigerated alcove of Yahoo!’s Dot’s [...]

Mountain View Stone Cookies munchies review

Can you say ow? You might not be able to after eating a Mountain View Stone Cookie. These thick golden brown oblong discs are forged for fantastic gum-busting fury!! You’ll wish you were stranded on a deserted island somewhere just so you could invent new uses for them; building tiles, adze blades, [...]

MUNCHIES [CA] . Real Ice Cream aka: Olety’s Chaat Corner

Do you remember the free webhost Angelfire? I guess I started internet browsing around the death of Angelfire so I remember designing a webpage for a CS class and going nuts with colorful repeated backgrounds (were those orange serrated semicircles supposed to be fans or carrots?), animated .gifs, 42pt banner marquees, and framesets (thanks [...]

MOVIE REVIEW . We Are the Strange

This review is so long overdue that a serendipitous run-in with the writer/director prompted a strict reminder. M Dot Strange (aka: Michael Belmont) is so completely casual and San Jose-centric that he frequents a local boba tea place, even today as he types out an article for Wired Magazine (August issue — be [...]

Culinary death threat love letters from China

Just counting down the time before China kills us, kills us ALL*! One way or another, it seems inevitable. And it seems so easy for them to do it too. Why?? Because we let them that’s why!! Greedy companies fail to investigate and inspect the Chinese companies they import from or else [...]

MUNCHIES [CA] . Dot’s Café at Yahoo!

Okay, so we don’t have free gourmet roasted quail like Google does, but we do have a cute little cafeteria with lots of curves and multi-color polka dots. So there, ha! The chefs are cool and the food is okay; when I do eat in I usually opt for the Indian/Thai stuff or [...]

Beard Papa’s 1-year anniversary in SF

My goosh, has it been a year already?? My my how the time flies. A year ago the Bay Area was Beard Papa-less. Today we have three locations, two in San Francisco and one in Redwood City! And if you doubted their popularity or Bay Area-ites ability to overindulge, let me [...]

San Francisco’s Frjtz is moving.. just not very far

When Santiago Rodriguez was informed that his restaurant lease was denied renewal, he didn’t panic at all. Rodriguez, the owner of Frjtz — the cute shop o’ the best paper cone o’ Belgian Fries (not quite French Fries) and authentic (soupy, buttery, floppy) crepes of Boho trendy SF Hayes Valley — simply moved right [...]

Palo Alto’s Spago to close

Shoo shoo Spago! Wolfgang Puck just isn’t welcome in Palo Alto anymore. Ten years of the King of California cuisine was enough. June 1st is the closing date for the iconic ritzy restaurant on the fringe of downtown Paly. In a press release, senior managing partner Tom Kaplan announced that the [...]

Butter kills… even if you just sniff it

Popcorn workers lung is no laughing matter, in fact, those affected can barely laugh at all. Bronchiolitis obliterans is a rare irreversible form of lung disease which rapidly suffocates the afflicted by destroying his/her lungs. A lung transplant is the only cure. Over the past five years over $100 million in lawsuit [...]

A “rocktail” with $15,000 worth of “hot ice”

The Valentine’s Day Spin

In case you’re the superficial girlie that expects Barry White and bruised roses, drugstore chocolate and wine, and a tacky diamond baguette laced heart pendant so cheap it’s best suited for a gift for your distant aunt, or if you’re the predictable guy that has to buy all that crap, here’s a slight spin on [...]

The Contemporary Museum Café munchies review

I think I’ve only eaten here once before and clearly cannot recall the food, but when I wandered briefly with the older wealthier artsy crew, they always insisted I should go to The Contemporary Museum Café. But I often visited the museum, never the café. “Next time”, I thought, “next time”. Well, [...]

Indigo Restaurant munchies review

I have three words to describe Indigo Restaurant and that’s “oily as hell”. Not a greasy oil, but extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinaigrette to the max. The pair made technicolor Willy Wonka swirls on my emptied plate; I’m not kidding, I thought I was on drugs.

When the waiter suggested the lunch [...]

Hoku’s at the Kahala Resort munchies review

Ah, Sunday Brunch at Hoku’s. Where else can you get melt-in-your-mouth sake (salmon) nigiri and fresh tender lobster tail (the kind that’s so sweet you devour it without any seasoning or butter) at 10:30 in the morning?
Sure Hoku’s is in one of the prettiest settings; decked in whitest white linens at the [...]