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Korean Seoul On Wheels Found, Chowhounders Call Off Search

Korean Seoul On Wheels Found, Chowhounders Call Off Search

All the Neurosis You Can Stomach

In Chul-Soo Park's 301*302, appetites turn deadly

No Regret

In Chul-Soo Park's 301*302, appetites turn deadly

Woman on the Beach

In Chul-Soo Park's 301*302, appetites turn deadly

Sunshine of Your Love

In Chul-Soo Park's 301*302, appetites turn deadly

Queen's Nails Annex Hires Tony Labat for a 'BULK' Perpetual Art Opening

In Chul-Soo Park's 301*302, appetites turn deadly

Buying In

In Chul-Soo Park's 301*302, appetites turn deadly

Don't Go Changin'

Entertaining, yes, but Menopause doesn't go far enough in erasing taboos

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Entertaining, yes, but Menopause doesn't go far enough in erasing taboos

Gimme Two Steps

Gay, lesbian, country, and western

Movie Meals

A strategy for eating near the San Francisco International Film Festival

Annual Resolution

Focus in on digital filmmaking at this year's ResFest

Brother's

Pacific Grin

Postcards From America

Experts debate the evolution of gay filmmaking

Letters to the Editor

Letters from October 18, 2000

Night+Day

Letters from October 18, 2000

New hotel brasserie Midi offers updated versions of French classics

Letters from October 18, 2000

City's Mourned Korean Taco Truck is Back, Sort Of

A pre-exile Yoon and her truck in 2007.​The good news? Korean taco truck Seoul on Wheels plans to start doing business again early next week. The sucky news for San Franciscans? It'll be dishing out its rice bowls and kimchi fried rice in Emeryville. But take heart -- Seoul on Wheels owner Jul ... More >>

SFMOMA's Turning 75 -- Celebrate With Street Food and Free Museum Admission This Weekend

T. PalmerSeoul on Wheels will serve Korean tacos near SFMOMA this weekend.​SFMOMA turns 75 this year, but instead of having a birthday akin to something that someone of a similar age might plan, the museum has planned a three-day, practically non-stop blowout for Jan. 16-18 that could tire someone ... More >>

Korea Attacks! Korean junk food has established a tasty foothold

T. PalmerSeoul on Wheels will serve Korean tacos near SFMOMA this weekend.​SFMOMA turns 75 this year, but instead of having a birthday akin to something that someone of a similar age might plan, the museum has planned a three-day, practically non-stop blowout for Jan. 16-18 that could tire someone ... More >>

Jonathan Kauffman Takes on S.F.'s Korean Junk Food Explosion

J. KauffmanThe kimchi-pork hot dog from John's Snack and Deli.​It's happened. Thanks to vivid incarnations dished up via John's Snack and Deli, Seoul on Wheels, and Namu Street Food, Korean-fusion junk food has entered the popular vernacular in S.F., inspired by local tastes and the West Coast ... More >>

A Guide to Chasing Korean Taco Trucks on the Peninsula

Seoul on Wheels' tacos.​Today's review mentioned in passing the preponderance of Korean taco trucks, the majority modeled after L.A.'s Kogi BBQ, that are prowling the Peninsula. If you're inspired to take your bike down on CalTrain to do a Cyrus Farivar-style tour de tacos, here's the list of truc ... More >>

Jonathan Kauffman's Tips for Venturing Beyond Korean Snack Food

hyperbolation/FlickrLunch at Han Il Kwan.​You have questions about restaurants, dining, food, drinks that you can't figure out or are too shy to ask? I have answers ― or know people who do.Under the SFoodie teaser to this week's review of Korean snack food joints around San Francisco, Urbanstoma ... More >>

Mission Burger's Closing for the Month of June. Then What?

John BirdsallIt couldn't hurt to eat your fill of Mission burgers this month.​Is Mission Burger closing? Mission Mission opened the throttle on the rumor machine when it floated a tantalizingly opaque post of burger lack at Duc Loi. The truth? Well, sure it's closing. MB fry cook Danny Bowien ... More >>

Sunset Celebration Weekend's New Street-Food Alley

​These days, you're not a proper lifestyle magazine if you can't throw a proper party. Next weekend, Sunset, the Menlo Park-based West Coast lifestyle magazine, is holding its annual Celebration Weekend. The event will take place on the venerable publication's seven-acre grounds ― yeah, magazine ... More >>

Worlds Apart

Federal law gives gay citizens with foreign partners tough choices: Leave the U.S.A. Lose your love. Break the law.

Hopping through Dogpatch, It's Outside In 5

odetogoodness.comOutside In 5 will feature the "provincial pie window" from Jaynelle St. Jean's Oakland-based PieTisserie.​Soul Cocina, SF Cart Project, and Hands-On Gourmet are getting ready for "Outside In 5." The indoor-outdoor event has been drawing increasingly bigger crowds, so this fift ... More >>

Frozen Dessert Ladies Twirl and Dip Made Their Street-Food Debut Yesterday

Tamara PalmerTwirl and Dip's Siri Skelton hoists a strawberry tart fruitsicle. Peep the strawberry silhouette.​Twirl and Dip made its public debut yesterday on a lovely Emeryville afternoon, carting as a guest of Korean tacos-n-more truck Seoul on Wheels. Meg Hilgartner and Siri Skelton are th ... More >>

Brother Seafood Opens, a San Francisco Taco Glut Blossoms

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. First off, SFoodie's Tamara Palmer e-mailed us to let us know that Brother Seafood Restaurant (1830 Irving St., 661-8033), whose sign we spotted a few weeks ago, has opened. The pitch: Canton ... More >>

Happy Ending, Asian Street-Food Afterparty for SF Chefs Opening Gala

Tamara PalmerSoul Cocina's sabudana vada, a South Indian fritter.​It'll take five restaurants, three dons of the folding table street-food movement, one food truck, and one dessert cafe to create the perfect "Happy Ending," the late-night component to SFChefs 2010's opening night festivities. ... More >>

Ten Things Other Than Ice Cream to Eat Today

Jonathan KauffmanThis $2 bag of cantaloupe with chile, lime, and salt saved my life yesterday.​1. Bun (cold rice noodles) with grilled pork and a lemon soda at PPQ (1816 Irving, 661-8869).2. Melon, pineapple, or cucumbers doused with chile, lime, and salt from the frutero cart at 21st and Mission. ... More >>

Off the Grid Launches in Haight and Civic Center Later This Week

Chris MacArthur/SF WeeklyThe first Off the Grid launched at Fort Mason Center in late June.​Brace yourself for San Francisco street food to expand big this week. Off the Grid organizer Matt Cohen is announcing this morning that two of the three weekly street-food events slated for city parks w ... More >>

Is Emeryville Poised to Kill Its Street-Food Scene?

Laurel H./YelpLiba Falafel and Seoul on Wheels in a typical lunchtime scene in Emeryville.​The East Bay city of Emeryville has been a particularly bright spot in the Bay Area's emerging street-food scene. While San Francisco is a maze of payouts and regulations across multiple agencies, Emeryv ... More >>

Pickled Figs and Pumpkin Beers: This Week in Food Bloggery

Tamara Palmer​Highlights from the blog and beyond: 1. Sean Timberlake continues his series of advice columns on preserving peak-season produce with a recipe for pickled figs that looks phenomenal ― as well as links to other fig-forward preserves. (Also intriguing: Timberlake's sighting of nastur ... More >>

Off the Grid Returns After Holiday Break

John BirdsallIt's baaaack.​Almost a week after the ball dropped on New Year's Eve, things are just about back to normal. The tree's no more than a few dry needles lurking in the carpet, photo cards have been recycled, and Off the Grid is poised to return to the streets of San Francisco. OTG's ... More >>

Food Events for the Weekend of Jan. 7-9

Off the Grid/FacebookImpervious to weather at McCoppin Hub.​Friday through Sunday, the area's tastiest happenings. Fri., Jan. 7: Food Truck Rally in Napa Oxbow Public Market, 728 First St. (at McKinstry), Napa; 5 p.m.-midnight The second installment of the first Friday food truck event in Oxb ... More >>

Street-Food Cooking Classes at La Cocina

jeffreymcmanus/FlickrLearn how to make the Magic happen.​Brian Kimball's Magic Curry Kart recently debuted a weekly lunch service with fellow carts Adobo Hobo and Sweet Constructions, and now Kimball has conceived of yet another way to continue the cooperation among small businesses while prom ... More >>

Red Wings: Korean Fried Chicken Done Right. Really Right

jeffreymcmanus/FlickrLearn how to make the Magic happen.​Brian Kimball's Magic Curry Kart recently debuted a weekly lunch service with fellow carts Adobo Hobo and Sweet Constructions, and now Kimball has conceived of yet another way to continue the cooperation among small businesses while prom ... More >>

Drinking Snacks and Korean Fried Chicken: Q&A with Seoul Food Blogger Jennifer Flinn

Jonathan KauffmanJennifer Flinn at a ramen-rice cake shop in Seoul. Note: She does not normally wear a bib.​Eating fried chicken wings, rice cakes, and fish-egg soup at Red Wings ― all with beer and soju cocktails ― made me wonder about how these foods would be eaten in Korea. Were they drinki ... More >>

Eat Tons, Help Kids: Asian Latin Fusion Fest

​Hybrid Fusion Where: Intersection 5M, 925 Mission Street (at 5th St), 626-2787 When: Sat., June 11, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $50 The rundown: Intersection 5M's new art exhibition Chico & Chang explores the intersection between (what else?) Asian and Latin culture. This Saturday the art will gain a ... More >>

What to Do This Weekend, June 10-12

Tamara PalmerHonest Abe's pie at the last S.F. Food Wars pie battle.​Craving more? Scroll through additional listings here. Fri., June 10 Friday Food Pod Launches Oakland Technical High School, Broadway (at 45th Street), 5:30-8:30 p.m. A weekly food pod called Bites on Broadway will set up ... More >>

Frozen Street Food Meal Hits Costco

Gary Soup​In his new "not a food blog" Geezericious, local pavement cuisine enthusiast/Chinese food blogger Gary Soup spots the mobile eating trend in play at a local Costco in the form of frozen Korean beef "street tacos." Soup jokes that Korean taco purveyors such as Seoul on Wheels and LA' ... More >>

"San Francisco" Ice Cream in Korea: Homage, or Ripoff?

Rafael Flores/CNN GoFell & Cole ice cream in Seoul, Korea recreates some of Humphry Slocombe's and Bi-Rite Creamery's flavors​Humphry Slocombe proprietor Jake Godby, or whoever is in charge of the Mission District ice cream shop's Twitter account, is not pleased about a new Seoul, Korea ice cr ... More >>

Seoul Patch Starts Serving Bulgogi LTs Today

Kenichi KawashimaSeoul Patch's Korean fried chicken po'boy.​Not long ago, Eric Ehler, who'd been a cook and sous-chef at Serpentine for three years, took a break from cooking to hang out in Seoul. "I didn't just love the cuisine of Seoul," says Ehler, who was born in Korea but had spent ... More >>

Pretty Pottery

Kenichi KawashimaSeoul Patch's Korean fried chicken po'boy.​Not long ago, Eric Ehler, who'd been a cook and sous-chef at Serpentine for three years, took a break from cooking to hang out in Seoul. "I didn't just love the cuisine of Seoul," says Ehler, who was born in Korea but had spent ... More >>

Seoul Patch vs. Reform Club Pop-Up Battle Royale

Korean dramedy? Might we suggest the delightful, "Playful Kiss"?​What: Seoul Patch vs. Reform Club Where: Specchio When: Sun., December 4. Seatings 6-10 p.m. Cost: $40, $25 extra for beverage pairing The rundown: Eric Ehler is back, and this time he's combining both of his pop-ups into on ... More >>

Seoul Patch's Korean Fried Chicken Sando

Jonathan KauffmanSeoul Patch's Korean fried chicken sando.​Four months after its debut, Seoul Patch, a lunchtime popup operating out of Rocketfish in Potrero Hill, continues to evolve. Chef Eric Ehler's been spinning out his original ideas -- all Korean-American culinary juxtapositions -- into new ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Food Find: Seoul Patch's Korean Fried Chicken Sando

Jonathan KauffmanSeoul Patch's Korean fried chicken sando.​Four months after its debut, Seoul Patch, a lunchtime popup operating out of Rocketfish in Potrero Hill, continues to evolve. Chef Eric Ehler's been spinning out his original ideas -- all Korean-American culinary juxtapositions -- into new ... More >>