My parents were in town recently, and I took them up to San Francisco to see the Chihuly exhibit at the de Young Museum. Where to eat lunch before sightseeing, of course, was a key question.
We took a streetcar from the Caltrain station and hopped off in the Sunset district, which I had heard was […]

“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 […]