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This Snack Time post has gotten way too long so I thought I'd better get it out there before it gets lost in my draft folder.   In May...

More food in Roppongi, though probably not the last since I'm still waaay behind on photos. I'd thought to wait until I'm all c...

Alright, I can't procrastinate on this post anymore because it's growing too long. More food ahead, folks. In the Roppongi area, sa...

Ack, May already! Time to play catch-up again with my posts! Let's start with Inner Richmond . Instead of Chinatown, hubby and I go her...

Hanging around Japantown so much, hubby and I eventually ventured into the surrounding restaurants. This one is a poshy Vietnamese fusion ...

Being the close vicinity of Japantown , inevitably Fillmore Street is my second favorite part of town, which means every time I visit Japa...

***Warning: this post may bore you ^.^ You already know hubby and I temporarily moved to San Francisco. We didn't actually "mo...

I "stumbled" upon the greatness that is Yongkang Street (永康街) purely by accident. I read a little bit about Taipei prior to ou...

Meeting up in Shibuya for K.'s bday party a couple of weeks ago, hubby ran across this Vietnamese restaurant  Hanoi no Hoi-san's  wh...

Happy March! ...Though it doesn't change the fact that I'm still waaaaaay behind on my posts. In fact, it makes it worse that it...

Bún Riêu is a delicious Southern Vietnamese rice vermicelli soup in a seafood-tomatoes broth that, well, started out complicated go make bu...

So what the heck did hubby and I searched high and low for in Chinatown instead of Black Friday shopping? Ingredients to make this Vietname...

Bún Thang is a northern Vietnamese rice noodles soup that calls for some very intricate (and long and tedious) preparations. According to th...

There are variations of this omelet in many cultures around the world, egg foo young is a quick example, so I'm not going to claim that...

Yesterday I wondered whether my fish kho (pronounced kah ) dish would taste closer to their Vietnamese counterparts, even with Japanese in...