Food log: Wednesday, May 12

I had the same breakfast as yesterday. (no pic)

I took a wonderful tour of Chinatown. We ate flat fortune cookies at the bakery where they were invented.


For lunch, we had dim sum. It was included in the price of the tour. It's great to eat in Chinatown with a guide to explain everything and teach us some ordering tricks and chinese etiquette. For example, if you lift the lid of the tea pot, it means "please add some more". (Click on each photo to identify each dish)













I came back to Chinatown later that day for an afternoon break at Empress of China. The restaurant is like a time capsule, kitsch but classy at the same time. It's a great deal, everything is 30% off during happy hour.

I had some peking pot stickers and a Mai Tai - $14.50 with tip




Caught a baseball game at the AT & T stadium and ate some overpriced yet delicious hot dogs and nachos, as well as a coupe of beers. The Giants lost. But junk food tastes so much better in a sports arena.
"Giant" hot dogs and a beer - $19

Nachos and a beer - $15



Money spent on food today: $48.50

Food log: Tuesday, May 11

PB sandwich, banana 

Free water on the Movie Tour

Free lollipop on the Movie Tour

Double Double, fries, soda - $7.01 at In & Out Burger

Gatorade at Coit tower - $3.25

After climbing the Filbert Steps (one of the steepest places in the western hemisphere), I deserved it.
More provisions: wine and beer - $19

I had a glass of wine while resting my feet.

I had dinner at Foreing Cinema in the Mission district. This place is amazing, with a large patio showing movies every night, and an indoor room with large windows. But the food is so delicious, who cares about the flick? Service was excellent. I even got an extra appetizer, on the house. Maybe taking pictures of my food and knowing about wine is finally paying off. Or they just had extra. Heh! Either way, I had one of my best meals of the year so far at this place.


Last Temptation cocktail 

Bread

Myagi Marin Oysters

Warm olives (on the house)

Honig sauvignon blanc (half bottle)

Smoked salmon with crème fraîche, chickory and radicchio on crisp bread (on the house!)


Localy cured sardines on faro and fava beans, pecorino cheese

Perfectly cooked cod on pea purée and morrels, with some kind of beurre blanc

Strawberry shortcake with roasted strawberries and chantilly cream

This was a meal I won't soon forget.
Dinner at Foreign Cinema was $115.87 including a 20% tip


Money spent on food today: $126.12

food log: Monday, May 10

Breakfast sandwich, Diet Pepsi - $4.83 from Tim Horton (Montreal airport)

Tomato juice, cookies on the plane

Chicken sandwich, water, donuts from Tim Horton - $6.14

Chips at the airport - $1.68

Diet Coke on the plane

Tomato juice on the plane

Steak, baked potato, salad and bread with a nice San Francisco beat at Tad's Steak House - $19.90

Bread, peanut butter, bananas, Diet Coke, Pop Chips - $12.62 from Union Square Produce

Provisions for the mornings and evenings to come.

Money spent on food today: $45.17

Food log: Sunday, May 9

First, last night's food. I got the munchies at eleven and I had already blogged, so here we go:

Poutine - $10 including a fat tip

Beer - brought back from my trip to D.C.

You didn't think I drank the WHOLE six-pack in Washington, did you?

Now on to the daytime food.

Toasts with cream cheese, vegetable cocktail

3 dozens bagels from St-Viateur Bagels - $20.26

I bought LOTS of bagels for myself and for a Flickr friend I'm meeting in San Franciso. I wanted him to have enough for his family, so I got him a dozen sesame and half a dozen "everything". I hope the oniony smell doesn't get me in trouble with the sniffing dogs at the airport.

2 bagels with peanut butter

That's pretty much it. It's past 9 pm and I'm too excited to eat much more than that. My plane leaves at 9 tomorrow for San Francisco. Time for a vacation! You can expect interesting blogs in the next ten days.

Money spent on food today: $30.26

Food log: Saturday, May 8

BLT, hard-boiled egg, asian pear slices

Yogurt, maple syrup

Yellow beans, potatoes, fish sticks

Rodney Strong Chardonnay, 2008

I'm getting in the mood for California!


Money spent on food today: 0