Southeast Asia

Food Truck Bite of the Week: Finding Home with Laksa at Azalina's Malaysian

Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck: Azalina's Malaysian The Cuisine: Mamak stall cuisine, a blend of Indian, Malay, and Chinese cuisine Specialty Items: Fritters, curries, buns Worth the Wait in Line? At peak ... More >>

Ghost Scam Trial: Prosecutor Challenges Defendant's Victimization Story

For the defendants in the ghost scam trial to be acquitted, their lawyers must prove, by a preponderance of evidence, that they committed their crimes "out of necessity." "Preponderance of evidence," jurors are told, "means that you must be persuaded that the things the defendant seeks to prove are ... More >>

AT&T Park Makes it on Instagram's Top 10 List of Most Popular Photographed Spots

Last year, we told you about how AT&T Park was one of the most "checked-in" spots on Facebook. Not only do people love watching the Giants kick ass there, but they apparently can't help themselves from documenting it as well. Instagram this week released its list of the top 10 most photographed lo ... More >>

Two New Local Cookbooks Help You Cook Like Chinese Nomads, Improve Your Sex Life

Here's a duo of new Bay Area cookery titles worthy of space in that (compact, apartment) library of yours. Linda Lau Anusasananan is a food writer and former Sunset Magazine cookbook consultant who used her own ethnic heritage as a backdrop to research The Hakka Cookbook (University of California P ... More >>

Bryan Boogie on His Love for Deep House and Why DJs Shouldn't Be Promoters

Growing up during the height of the '90s Bay Area turntablism movement, local DJ Bryan Boogie decided to save his lunch money to buy equipment from RadioShack at the age of 12. While locals Q-bert, Mix Master Mike, and Apollo were dazzling in DMC battles, Boogie instead found himself drawn to house ... More >>

"Decoding Deepak": Son Sees Right Through His Guru Father

Lumiere Theatre Closing -- C'est La Vie

You really can't have a much better San Francisco evening than hopping a cable car, hopping off for the five-spice chicken at Cordon Bleu ("The best chicken you will have outside of Vietnam"), and finishing it off with a movie at the Lumiere. Long may the Cordon Bleu and cable cars shine on, but, af ... More >>

Secret Agent Man

Chron Ships Your Concerns (And Their Journalism) Overseas

It was almost old news by the time it reached my steps. The Chronicle's delivery person was bringing the newspaper later and later. It slipped back from 6:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. and then 7:45 a.m. -- when I was getting ready to leave for work. One morning I saw the driver launching the paper out his wind ... More >>

Pinoy Pride

Rice Paper Scissors Is Having A Traditional Vietnamese Family Meal

​​What: Old-school style Vietnamese pop-up Rice Paper Scissors is throwing down with a full on Family Meal.Where: Rice Paper Scissors will announce the meal's locale on the day of the event.When: Fri. & Sat., March 30th and 31st, 6:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. Cost: In the 80 dollar range -- this is a ... More >>

"Act Of Valor": Recruits Adrenaline Junkies Everywhere

Michael Chiarello Eyes S.F., Burger Urge's Odd Tagline, and Visiting Four Corners

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Odd names and taglines: Tablehopper discovers, via Chowhound, that Indo-Bali Cooking Street has opened in the Financial District (343 Kearny at Pine). The Indonesian restaurant is from the former Bangkok ... More >>

Village Voice's Lauren Shockey Dishes Kitchen Gossip at Omnivore Books

​What: Lauren Shockey at Omnivore Books Where: Omnivore Books When: Fri., October 21, 6-7 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Village Voice's Lauren Shockey, she of the Really Great Name, will be in town to talk about her new book, Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burner in New York, Hanoi, Tel ... More >>

House of Sisig: Kamayan Dining Creates Homey Atmosphere

What Do I Do When They Give Me a Fork, Knife, and Chopsticks?

​ Fielding your questions about dining out in 21st-century Bay Area restaurants. Have one? Email me.  San Francisco diners are expected to become practiced at a variety of eating implements in a seemingly infinite variety of combinations. So I wasn't surprised to get asked this question: C ... More >>

That’s Radical

"Amigo": John Sayles Creates an Intelligently Rip-Roaring War Movie

Girl Meets Doll

So Long Dining Room and Pie Delivery, Hello (To Another) Southern Restaurant

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. An order to go: The Feast reports the popular Indian-Pakistani restaurant Lahore Kahari has shut its dining room. Owner Zulfiqar "Guddu" Haider has converted the Tenderloin restaurant into a take-out only ... More >>

"The Hangover 2": Unfunny Bro Comedy Franchise Is Creatively Bankrupt

So Long Al, Adios Bangkok 16 ― Say Hello to New England Tacos

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Another goodbye to a long-standing neighborhood institution: Grub Street reports the shuttering of Al's Café Good Food. After 50 years, the Bernal Heights' diner closed in April; on Facebook, owner Jean ... More >>

Jun-Blog, Eat the Love Finalists in Saveur's Best Food Blog Awards

Jun Belen/Jun-Blog​First time we clicked a link and scrolled through a Jun Belen post ― a recollection of lechon in Manila ― we were smitten. S.F. blogger (and occasional SFoodie contributor) Belen has fierce photo skills and an eye for taking Filipino cooking out of the world of titas and ... More >>

Your Slacker, My Hero

Asia Rocks

Town Hall Owners Plan a Wine-on-Tap Bar, Audio Geeks Reveal They're Coffee Geeks As Well

​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. 7x7's Bits and Bites blog is giddy at the chance to scoop the rest of us in reporting that the project Town Hall's owners are opening at 740 Valencia will be a wine bar. Even more timely, it will ... More >>

It Was On a Boat

Not Fade Away

Charles Phan Hopes the Mission Likes Him Better Now, Bai Thong Opens

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Jay B. at Grub Street talks to Charles Phan about his plans for the original Slanted Door location at 584 Valencia St. They're still quite vague, but Grub Street says the concept is more likely ... More >>

Accused Sex Offenders Arrested at San Francisco Airport

​U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing it nabbed two alleged sex offenders at San Francisco Airport after the American citizens' separate flights from the Philippines touched down.  The first man was arrested last Monday on a warrant out of Washington State. The second man was book ... More >>

Tomorrow: Indonesia Day Brings Food, Music to Union Square

alwinsulaiman/FlickrS.F.'s Borobudur will be on hand to make with the food.​Tomorrow might be a good time to indulge in Indonesian food at the 17th annual Indonesia Day celebration in Union Square, the largest such event in the country, according to organizers. The free event also features Bal ... More >>

We'll Always Have "Paris by Night"

At least on DVD. But thanks to all the pirated discs, the iconic Vietnamese- language variety show might be facing its final curtain.

Don't Sound Like a Tool: How to Pronounce Coffee Regions

​Don't Sound Like a Tool is SFoodie's series of audio pronunciation guides to sort-of-common-but-not-obvious words we keep encountering on wine lists and menus. No more shame, no more pointing, no more godawful imitations of a language you don't speak.Five years ago, when buying coffee all you ... More >>

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