Ed Chui

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.

Translating Chinese New Year Menus, Part 5: New Woey Loy Goey

Click to enlarge.​ Hop into the future. Just before the start of the Year of the Rabbit celebrations, SFoodie canvassed San Francisco Chinatown, looking for New Year special menus to post online. Many, many thanks to Adobo Hobo's Ed Chui and his parents for doing the translations. (Click on the a ... More >>

Translating Chinese New Year Menus, Part 3: Chung King Restaurant

Click to enlarge.​A particularly American breed of rabbit.​With technical glitches resolved, SFoodie is finally able to present a few more Chinese New Year banquet menus we collected in Chinatown before the Year of the Rabbit began. Many thanks to Adobo Hobo's Ed Chui and his parents for doing t ... More >>

Translating Chinese New Year Menus, Part 4: Bund Shanghai

Click to enlarge.​​HAPPY NEW YEAR.​SFoodie continues our series of translations for Chinese New Year's menus with one from Bund Shanghai Restaurant. Its Year of the Rabbit set dinners include a number of eastern Chinese New Year's dishes that you won't find in Cantonese restaurants. (Incidenta ... More >>

Translating Chinese New Year's Menus, Part 1: Lichee Garden

Oh, yes, it's that year.​Last year, SFoodie drove around the Sunset and Richmond, picking up New Year's banquet menus to post online. This year, we canvassed San Francisco's Chinatown, and once again asked the intrepid Ed Chui (Adobo Hobo) and his parents to help us translate. A series of technic ... More >>

Fresh Eats: We recommend Reverie's pozole and Ajisen's ramen

Bow Down to the Bao

Tamara PalmerMaliNumNum's sio-bao.​With all the trucks, carts, and folding tables out there, you can pretty much get any kind of taco you want on the streets of San Francisco, whether your fancy is regional Mexican or upscale French. But there's another meat-and/or-veggie-vehicle that's gainin ... More >>

Mr. Arroz Caldo: More Filipino Street Food for S.F.

Mr. Arroz Caldo/TwitterArroz caldo: Filipino comfort porridge.​Arroz caldo: Filipino comfort food, rice porridge akin to congee. Mr. Arroz Caldo: Aspiring street-food vendor planning to debut this Sunday at Adobo Hobo's anniversary hawk-athon with the Gumbo Cart, at a San Francisco location ... More >>

Meet the IZ IT Taco Truck: Chinese Fried Chicken, Spam Musubi, and a Family Legacy

IZ ITThe menu blends owner Kamyn Kong's Hawaiian and Chinese American pedigree.​Like Broadway shows, some of the best food trucks open out of town. In Brisbane yesterday, IZ IT Fresh Grill was merely the latest to make its debut. The mobile startup is specializing in Chinese-style fried chicke ... More >>

Translating Chinese New Year's Menus, Part 5: Hakka Restaurant

Click to enlarge.​The year of the iron tiger officially arrived last weekend, but Chinese restaurants around the Bay Area are offering special New Year's banquet menus over the course of the next few weeks. Soundtrack for 2010.​SFoodie drove around the city collecting some of them, which Adobo H ... More >>

Kauffman's Five: This Week in Food Blogulation

The five most memorable bits from SFoodie and beyond:1. The Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, and Chinese New Year cluster celebration is now officially over. SFoodie's Tamara Palmer finds herself shaky from the effects of holiday withdrawal, so she uncovers National Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day and Nati ... More >>

Translating New Year's Menus, Part 4: S&T (Only for the Rich)

Click to enlarge.​With the year of the metal tiger upon us, SFoodie drove around San Francisco picking up New Year's menus (thanks to Adobo Hobo's Ed Chui and his parents for providing translations). Today's menu comes from S&T Hong Kong Seafood on Noriega, which offers the widest selection: 2 ... More >>

Translating Chinese New Year's Menus, Part 2: New Hing Lung

Click to enlarge.​In honor of the blossoming year of the metal tiger, last week SFoodie drove around San Francisco picking up New Year's menus ― a million thanks to Adobo Hobo's Ed Chui and his parents for translating them for us. 2010: Sponsored by Kellogg's.​We'll be rolling out the menu ... More >>

Translating Chinese New Year's Menus, Part 1: Empero Taste

Click to enlarge.​All hail the arrival of the year of the metal tiger! This week, in celebration of Chinese New Year, SFoodie drove around town picking up Chinese New Year banquet menus, then asked Adobo Hobo's Ed Chui and his parents to translate. We'll be rolling out the menus on SFoodie over th ... More >>