Driving between the southern suburbs of San Francisco, where we now live, and our former home of Los Angeles, you must get off the highway and go through the town of Gilroy. This town’s claim to fame can be smelled very clearly: garlic.
So every year, Gilroy holds a garlic festival, a celebration of the […]

“As long as you’re out here in the East Bay,” said Daveena, at whose place I was staying overnight, “you really have to go to Kopitiam for Hainan chicken rice.”
Hainan is in southern China (remember that plane incident?), but Hainanese chicken rice is part of the local culinary canon in neighboring Singapore, and also apparently […]

Last weekend I went to my first Giants game at AT&T Park, where the food may be as much of a draw as the game — its concessions were described in a recent NYT article as a leading example of upscale food in ballparks.
Wes, however, was dead set on a Sheboygan brat. He had […]

The Burmese sure love to mix things up. Seriously, at a Chowhound lunch at Mingalaba, almost every dish we ordered involved tableside mixing. It’s nice for once to have some idea of what ingredients are in an exotic and unfamiliar dish, but what’s with the national passion for blending?
Chowhound poster Moomin once wrote:
“Thoke” is […]