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Take a Gander at the New Lucky Peach Guide to Dim Sum

Over the weekend Buzzfeed published an online version of S.F.-based Lucky Peach magazine's new guide to dim sum, which appears in the latest issue (number 5) all about Chinatown. The online version is pretty damn comprehensive, with plenty of text and a complicated classification system involving ph ... More >>

Lost in the Night: Pre-New Year's Eve Calisthenics at Sweater-Funk-Mosphere and Direct Current

Sweater-Funk-Mosphere & Direct Current Elbo Room and SUB/Mission Saturday, Dec. 30 2012 Better than: Staying in one place all night. Or staying at home for that matter. The Mission was alive by the time we made it to the corner of 18th and Valencia. Though usually crowded on a Saturday night, ... More >>

Woman Wakes Up in Bed and Finds Creepy Man Touching Her

Police are looking for a man who early this morning forced his way into a woman's home and touched her as she slept in her bed. Officer Gordon Shyy says the sexual battery happened at about 2 a.m. on the 900 block of Jackson Street in Chinatown; the woman was sleeping when she woke up and found a ... More >>

Recent Openers

Police are looking for a man who early this morning forced his way into a woman's home and touched her as she slept in her bed. Officer Gordon Shyy says the sexual battery happened at about 2 a.m. on the 900 block of Jackson Street in Chinatown; the woman was sleeping when she woke up and found a ... More >>

Oy Yay

Police are looking for a man who early this morning forced his way into a woman's home and touched her as she slept in her bed. Officer Gordon Shyy says the sexual battery happened at about 2 a.m. on the 900 block of Jackson Street in Chinatown; the woman was sleeping when she woke up and found a ... More >>

The World's a Stage

Police are looking for a man who early this morning forced his way into a woman's home and touched her as she slept in her bed. Officer Gordon Shyy says the sexual battery happened at about 2 a.m. on the 900 block of Jackson Street in Chinatown; the woman was sleeping when she woke up and found a ... More >>

Really Lucky Person Buys $13 Million Lotto Ticket in San Francisco

While you were out basking in the glory of another Giants World Series win, a very fortunate lottery player was celebrating their own mega victory. Some San Franciscan reportedly scored $13 million after purchasing a winning SuperLotto Plus ticket at a San Francisco food store in Chinatown. Acco ... More >>

James Bartley Accused of Beating Elderly Woman in Chinatown

San Francisco police tracked down the man they say viciously attacked a 94-year-old woman as she walked through Chinatown in broad daylight. James Bartley, 52, was arrested this week on suspicion of aggravated assault, batter, elder abuse, and criminal threats, says Sgt. Michael Andraychak. He was b ... More >>

5 Places to Celebrate National Seafood Bisque Day

October 19th is National Seafood Bisque Day, so we have come up with 5 places for you to get your crustacean on. Bisque is a thick, creamy soup of French origin and is typically made from lobster, crab, shrimp, and crayfish. The term "bisque" is also sometimes used to refer to creamy soups made from ... More >>

More Victims Duped by Weird Asian Ghost Scam

Earlier this summer, police arrested three women who they believe are responsible for scamming older, Asian women out of money and jewelry by convincing them they had evil spirits attached to them. But those arrests haven't done much to stop these bizarre ghost scams plaguing the San Francisco Asian ... More >>

Live Review, 6/3/12: Van Halen Finger-Taps Its Way to Glory at Oracle Arena

Van Halen Kool and the Gang Sunday, June 3, 2012 Oracle Arena Better than: Any of the still-touring Sunset Strip hair-farmers from the 1980s that Van Halen inspired. There aren't too many '70s-era hard-rock bands that can inspire the kind of unabashed hedonism -- a "bring me the skull of Sammy Hag ... More >>

Past is Present, There is Here

Van Halen Kool and the Gang Sunday, June 3, 2012 Oracle Arena Better than: Any of the still-touring Sunset Strip hair-farmers from the 1980s that Van Halen inspired. There aren't too many '70s-era hard-rock bands that can inspire the kind of unabashed hedonism -- a "bring me the skull of Sammy Hag ... More >>

Dumb Food Show Easter Unwrapped Is as Adorable as a Baby with a Peep Stuck to Her Head

Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going with food TV. This week, Easter Unwrapped, an hour show that never hurt anybody, April 7 on the Cooking Channel It would be a crime to critically review Unwrapped, to lay any sort of smothering blanket upon this innocent show, which films fac ... More >>

SFoodie's 50 Favorites: Red Blossom's Aged Oolong Teas

Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going with food TV. This week, Easter Unwrapped, an hour show that never hurt anybody, April 7 on the Cooking Channel It would be a crime to critically review Unwrapped, to lay any sort of smothering blanket upon this innocent show, which films fac ... More >>

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Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going with food TV. This week, Easter Unwrapped, an hour show that never hurt anybody, April 7 on the Cooking Channel It would be a crime to critically review Unwrapped, to lay any sort of smothering blanket upon this innocent show, which films fac ... More >>

Recent Openers

Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going with food TV. This week, Easter Unwrapped, an hour show that never hurt anybody, April 7 on the Cooking Channel It would be a crime to critically review Unwrapped, to lay any sort of smothering blanket upon this innocent show, which films fac ... More >>

Recent Openers

Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going with food TV. This week, Easter Unwrapped, an hour show that never hurt anybody, April 7 on the Cooking Channel It would be a crime to critically review Unwrapped, to lay any sort of smothering blanket upon this innocent show, which films fac ... More >>

Your Seasonal Produce Guide: Pea Shoots

​ A weekly series on what to do with your farmers' market impulse buys and CSA box surprises. Pea shoots are the leafy greens and curly tendrils of a pea plant. All pea plants produce shoots, but more often than not they come from a snow pea plant. They taste mildly of fresh peas and are slightl ... More >>

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​ A weekly series on what to do with your farmers' market impulse buys and CSA box surprises. Pea shoots are the leafy greens and curly tendrils of a pea plant. All pea plants produce shoots, but more often than not they come from a snow pea plant. They taste mildly of fresh peas and are slightl ... More >>

Shark Fin, Yadda Yadda: Obama Could Have Eaten Better Dim Sum

​President Obama, in town for a fundraiser, has made local headlines by stopping at Great Eastern for takeout dim sum. The San Francisco Chronicle has decided the stopover is a scandal. I agree, but not for the same reasons. Chronicle reporter Carla Marinucci pointed out that Obama, who signed t ... More >>

San Francisco's Top 10 Dim Sum Restaurants

​What better way to spend a weekend morning than over dim sum? Waitresses keep offering you tidbits of pork and shrimp, your endless pot of tea gets refilled without asking if you leave the lid up (there's a veteran tip), and at almost every place on this list, six people can eat until you're bore ... More >>

Del Popolo Readies to Roll, Ryan Scott's Please & Thank You, and Estela's Return

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. While it won't be the City's first mobile pizzeria (that would be Casey's Pizza), it will be the first one specializing in Neapolitan-style pizzas. Tablehopper reports Del Popolo from Jon Darsky (formerly ... More >>

The Selecter DJ Kirk on the Sweater-Funk Parties and What's Missing in Current R&B

​Soul and funk guru The Selecter DJ Kirk has been dubbed the unofficial mayor of San Francisco by friends and peers. Born and raised in S.F., he is recognized for his all-embracing knowledge of soul music through the decades, his extensive record collection, and for producing events like Soul ... More >>

Absorb More Best of 2011 Picks (Including Ours) in Noise Pop's New Podcast

Most people write out a year-end list; wisely, Noise Pop makes a podcast out of the project. The crew at S.F.'s best-known indie concert promotion outfit polled a host of artists, bloggers, DJs, and music writers about their favorite songs of 2011. The result is a recording that includes a wide vari ... More >>

Recent Openers

Most people write out a year-end list; wisely, Noise Pop makes a podcast out of the project. The crew at S.F.'s best-known indie concert promotion outfit polled a host of artists, bloggers, DJs, and music writers about their favorite songs of 2011. The result is a recording that includes a wide vari ... More >>

Strong Female Characters

Most people write out a year-end list; wisely, Noise Pop makes a podcast out of the project. The crew at S.F.'s best-known indie concert promotion outfit polled a host of artists, bloggers, DJs, and music writers about their favorite songs of 2011. The result is a recording that includes a wide vari ... More >>

New Asia Restaurant Is Loud, Bright, and Very Gold

Jonathan KauffmanNew Asia Restaurant's taro puffs.​ Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10."Ng saap sei! Fifty-four!" the cashier called into the microphone, the numbers ... More >>

On Moon Festival Day, We Review Three Local Mooncakes

Jonathan KauffmanGolden Gate Bakery's mooncake.​Today is the date of the Moon Festival, and chances are, you've already been given or re-gifted at least one mooncake, which is still sitting on your kitchen counter, wrapped in its hermetically sealed plastic packet, where it will keep for another m ... More >>

Local Diners, Local Gin, & Clay Pot Rice: This Week in Food Bloggery

Jeremy Brooks/SF Weekly Flickr pool​ Highlights from SFoodie this week: 1. Joe Eskenazi, whose love for diners surpasses all of ours at SFoodie, writes a great guide to the five best diners in town -- one of which, he points out, is actually a hofbrau but feels like a diner. Also, we're reminded ... More >>

Bouncer Goes Apiary at the Fairmont

Jeremy Brooks/SF Weekly Flickr pool​ Highlights from SFoodie this week: 1. Joe Eskenazi, whose love for diners surpasses all of ours at SFoodie, writes a great guide to the five best diners in town -- one of which, he points out, is actually a hofbrau but feels like a diner. Also, we're reminded ... More >>

We Ordered "Crude Drugs Chicken Feet"

W. Blake Gray​We saw this menu and of course we had to order No. 46. We think drugs are simply too refined these days. Who needs heroin, for example, when you can have opium? So how was the dish? We had an extreme reaction. We'll tell all in the next installment of our ongoing series of revie ... More >>

Chinatown Newspapers Won't Give You the Real Story Behind Mayor Ed Lee

​If you take a walk in Chinatown on a weekday morning, you'll notice that many of the little old ladies have newspapers sticking out of their grocery bags, and the guys noshing on their morning congee are poring over the papers. But they're not reading the Chron or the Examiner, or even SF Wee ... More >>

A Day in the Life of Rose Pak

Caroline Chen​​Rose Pak, notorious Chinatown activist and the supposed mastermind behind the Run, Ed, Run campaign, is one of the best-known characters in San Francisco. This week, SF Weekly sat down to dish with Pak about politics, her projects and passions, and life before becoming the bigges ... More >>

Wok On, Buy in Chinatown

Ben NarasinYee Cheong's wok on campfire coals​I've always been a big fan of cast iron: skillets, griddles, butter melters that look like medieval castle defenses in miniature. They last forever, they're cheap, and they don't seem to have any "bad for you" issues as aluminum and Teflon are repu ... More >>

One Woman's Guide to Cheap S.F. Health Clinics

Ben NarasinYee Cheong's wok on campfire coals​I've always been a big fan of cast iron: skillets, griddles, butter melters that look like medieval castle defenses in miniature. They last forever, they're cheap, and they don't seem to have any "bad for you" issues as aluminum and Teflon are repu ... More >>

Where Can We Take Our Parents? And Hear Ourselves Talk?

Mona C./YelpChabaa: Quiet, good, cheap.​Today's query comes from J.S.:So, the girlfriend's parents and my parents are both flying out to San Francisco to meet each other for the first time. We'd like to take them all out to dinner, but here's the thing: My father is deaf in one ear, and her dad do ... More >>

Asian Boom: Demographic Map Reveals Growth in Southeast S.F.

​Last week, SF Weekly wrote about how the Asian-American ascendancy in San Francisco politics is reflected in demographic trends revealed by the latest census -- specifically, a growing proportion of Asians in the city.The above map gives us a quick but detailed snapshot of that change. Incorporat ... More >>

Can We Find More Like Him?

​Last week, SF Weekly wrote about how the Asian-American ascendancy in San Francisco politics is reflected in demographic trends revealed by the latest census -- specifically, a growing proportion of Asians in the city.The above map gives us a quick but detailed snapshot of that change. Incorporat ... More >>

Translating Chinese New Year Menus, Part 6: Imperial Palace

Click to enlarge.​Last in our series of Chinese New Year's menus from Chinatown restaurants is this one, from Imperial Palace on Washington Street.

San Francisco's progressive Board of Supervisors now more moderate

Click to enlarge.​Last in our series of Chinese New Year's menus from Chinatown restaurants is this one, from Imperial Palace on Washington Street.

Danny Bowien's New York Chinatown

Alex HochmanCumin lamb hand-pulled noodles at Xi'an Famous Foods in New York's Chinatown, a favorite of Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien.​After a few bites of the savory cumin lamb hand-pulled noodles ($6) at Xi'an Famous Foods in New York's Chinatown, it became clear why Danny Bowien had s ... More >>

Lindy Hoppers Rejoice

Alex HochmanCumin lamb hand-pulled noodles at Xi'an Famous Foods in New York's Chinatown, a favorite of Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien.​After a few bites of the savory cumin lamb hand-pulled noodles ($6) at Xi'an Famous Foods in New York's Chinatown, it became clear why Danny Bowien had s ... More >>

Taking a Shine to It

Alex HochmanCumin lamb hand-pulled noodles at Xi'an Famous Foods in New York's Chinatown, a favorite of Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien.​After a few bites of the savory cumin lamb hand-pulled noodles ($6) at Xi'an Famous Foods in New York's Chinatown, it became clear why Danny Bowien had s ... More >>

Shanghai comes to Chinatown via Bund

Alex HochmanCumin lamb hand-pulled noodles at Xi'an Famous Foods in New York's Chinatown, a favorite of Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien.​After a few bites of the savory cumin lamb hand-pulled noodles ($6) at Xi'an Famous Foods in New York's Chinatown, it became clear why Danny Bowien had s ... More >>

San Francisco on $36.82 a Day

Feeding four hungry Spring Break-ers on Pittsburgh-style sandwiches and Singaporean street food

Hearts and Dragons

Feeding four hungry Spring Break-ers on Pittsburgh-style sandwiches and Singaporean street food