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I had lunch at the culinary mecca Chez Panisse Cafe in Berkeley with Kris on August 22, 2008.   Just getting around to blogging about the experience now.
Eggplant and cherry tomato salad with walnuts and marjoram

We shared this salad as our starter.  A perfect opening to our summer luncheon.  All the produce was perfectly fresh worked [...]

End of summer update: I got back this morning from a week-long holiday in Northern California. Tons of pictures on Flickr. I will blog more about it later.
Above: The famous Fisherman’s Wharf of San Francisco. Below: LS plays with eels at the Monterey Aquarium.

Sophia & Perilla
I hung out with Sophia today. [...]

Izakaya Oni
141 1st Ave, New York, NY 10003, US
A mediocre Japanese gastropub (izakaya) in the East Village. Located behind Ramen Setagaya in the space formerly occupied by Pasta/Sushi Wafu and Oriental Spoon before that.
Kris and I went last night (4 June 2008) after the Forum on Participation and Politics Online at NYU Law School. [...]

Me, Kris, and disembodied hand at Kia’s birthday party at Hakata Tonton in the West Village (right next to the infamous Marie’s Crisis). Hakata Tonton is a Japanese restaurant that specializes in pigs feet (or “pied de cochon” as they say on their website), which is high in collagen and supposedly good for your [...]

Here are some photos I took in Chinatown last weekend:

Above: Buddha Kitsch
Below: Lychees, Rambutans, and Dragon Fruits

Above: Pork and Crab Soup Dumplings from Joe’s Shanghai - not as good as Din Tai Fung, but the best I’ve had in New York.
Below: Shanghai Noodle Soup from Joe’s Shanghai

See the complete set on Flickr.