San Francisco and what to do in it

Anybody else been to Nomu on Balboa and 5th?

It's NAMU and I've been 2x. Once was with a chef who the Namu chefs admire so we ate and drank like kings for the sum totale of $0.00 but a few months later I returned with 3 friends and we had a couple of their apps including their famous Korean Tacos and by the time I got home those Korean Tacos had run their course (and some) to a very unpleasant end. Never returned.

Oops, sorry. I was underwhelmed by the tacos, tbh, but their ramen was awesome, the collard green wrapped rolls were strange yet delicious, their tofu was out of this world, so unctuous, and the shitake DUMPLINGS! were great, too. Their pickle starters were excellent and the soba was good, too. I really liked it.

DUMPLINGS!

Namu is good, but I prefer Halu's cheaper and better ramen.

Also DUMPLINGS!

Where is Halu?

8th and Clement.

They don't have DUMPLINGS! though.

I'm perplexed how I ended up typing that but rather content with the unbridled dumpling enthusiasm it conveys.

Halu indeed has DUMPLINGS!! THE JAPANTOWN OF THE INNER RICHMOND: DUMPLINGS!!!! but they are known as "gyoza".

Apparently there is some code somewhere which converts normal d u m p l i n g talk into DUMPLINGS!

We re-discovered it when we were talking about the Bai Ling eats fetuses masterpiece on the decade of film thread.

Halu doesn't always have gyoza, but yes sometimes the DUMPLINGS! OF JAPAN are on the special board. They are fantastic when they do have them though.

We have a show tonight at the Bottom of the Hill if anyone is looking for something to do...

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We re-discovered it when we were talking about the Bai Ling eats fetuses masterpiece on the decade of film thread.

Didn't read that but I wouldn't at all be surprised that Bai Ling did eat fetuses.

Yes, well the movie DUMPLINGS! is a expose of exactly that.

Alex, do you have Jaxon's IM? He is doing a thinkpiece on USA remakes of foreign horror films and I told him that this is right in your wheelhouse.

I do have it and he should have mine too. I'm not a super expert on these things since a lot of the US remakes have sounded so faithful that I didn't bother seeing them.

I wonder what the US remake of DUMPLINGS! would be called though? MEATLOAF! HAMBURGERS! THIN-CRUST PIZZA! The mind boggles.

it would be called TEX WASABI

A PARADOX THAT WORKS!

I just googled that.

I wonder what the US remake of DUMPLINGS!! would be called though?

it would be called TEX WASABI

Sure gives a new meaning to baby-back ribs, huh?

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delicious fetuses

When he starts a Viet-Tex place is it going to be called Pho-Queue?

*rimshot*

There is a place in Berkeley where you can get placenta stew, but it's kinda on the DL for obvious reasons.

This DUMPLINGS! movie sounds like a remake of that HK horror film from 25 (?) years ago called "Human pork bun" (rough translation).

It's not. Are you thinking about The Untold Story with Anthony Wong?

I guess there are translations which have Human Meat Pie in the title:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103743/releaseinfo#akas

wtf pork chop?

人肉叉燒包 where
人肉 = "yak yun" (?) = human
叉燒包 = cha siu bao = pork bun

It's a good movie.

Although it's kind of unsettling eating pork buns for a while afterwards.

PEOPLE OF SF
I COMMAND THEE TO CLOCKETH OUT

SHIT IS UNREAL, WE WAITED 9.7 MONTHS FOR THIS.

LATERZ

SHASTA OUT

*salutes*

every time it gets nice in this city, my weird druggy neighbors keep us up all night partying with their windows open. I can't wait for fog and rain.

/old

I read this whole story and I still don't really understand what people in my 'hood were so angry about

is it that they don't want any vendors in the park? or is it that they're angry that they weren't consulted about WHICH vendors would get to operate? I kinda can't fathom any Mission resident having a beef with La Cocina. Blue Bottle is a different matter but it's not like they're a horrible company or anything. and unless all these people were going to recommend a tax increase to make up for the Dept's $70k shortfall, what did they expect the Dept to do? I totally don't have any problem with either vendor operating in the park. Would be excited if they just fix the park's drainage problems and retrofit the bathrooms.

This reads like a Santa Cruz city council meeting...

it's just weird - there's all this negativity from the crowd, the elected officials seem like they're bending over backwards to appease everybody, same with the vendors. but people's objections are never really articulated

It doesn't hurt that it's a block away from my place but this new joint is awesome:

http://www.ragazzasf.com/

Wow. I was like "that looks exactly like Gialina!" Same chef... Gialina is delish.

Yeah, some friends of mine swear by her so we all went last night.

I went a few nights ago and agree that it is awesome.

I have excellent sardines a block from home!

shakey mo totally OTM

assume M White is too and looking forward to checking out ragazza

sorry, another italian/pizza does not get me excited. unless it means that the wait for flour+water goes down.

Have you tried Margieri's place yet?

what's a good cheap place for food before the gbv show tonight at the warfield?

Tu Lan @ 6th & Market

is that the hole in the wall vietnamese place just south of market? i think i went there once a few years back.

shasta says he eats there but I think its just a rumor

(it is good tho!)