Taiwan

Whiskies of the World Takes Port in S.F.

Where: SF Belle, Hornblower Yacht (remains docked), Pier 3 Embarcadero When: Sat., April 6th, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Cost: $120, tickets available online The Rundown: Perhaps it's a reaction to the Atkins Diet era, a slingshot effect that took our national focus from avoidance of grain products to a fetishi ... 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 >>

Bobble-Headed Dog in Car Actually a Real (Bobble-Headed) Dog

The old Coca-Cola motto used to note "you can't beat the real thing." This Yellow Cab driver seems to agree. Rather than settle for a standard dashboard bobble-headed dog for his vehicle, he's got the real thing! SF Weekly at first mistook this creature for a Made-in-Taiwan decoration. We were disab ... More >>

Know Your Frozen Desserts: Taiwanese Snow Ice, Baltimore Snowballs, and More Icy Treats

Now that the temperature is finally warming up and hopefully offering a glimpse of that summer we wait all year long for, it could be downright embarrassing if you don't know how to tell your ice desserts apart. We don't want you ordering Taiwanese snow ice when what you really want is Philadelphia ... More >>

Buy a Date With Ian Somerhalder, Don't Buy Monkeys, and People Won't Date Vegans!

​ Guys, don't buy monkeys. I know everybody wants to, we can't help it. I used to make up names for my future monkey and draw the awesome matching outfits we'd wear. But monkeys shouldn't be pets! Let's learn from Joey's story (btdubs, I think I love Stephen Fry, is that weird? Or is it like want ... More >>

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

Number 37: Red Blossom Tea Company's Aged Oolongs

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​The Bay Area's coffee roasters may get scads of national press, but our tea merchants, too, have become a force in their own realm of connoisseurship. Among them are Red Blossom Tea Company's Peter and Alice Leong, ... More >>

Q&A With Slanted Door's Chucky Dugo, part 1: From Paris-Brest to Taipei and Back

Chucky Dugo, pastry chef for Charles Phan's restaurants -- including Slanted Door, Out the Door, and the Moss Room -- grew up in a small town in the Central Valley with a big Italian family. Meals, especially at holidays, were a multi-dozen-person affair, with grandmothers bearing homemade breads an ... More >>

Leland Yee, Champion of Shark Fin Soup, to Tout More Politically Correct Broth

​State Sen. Leland Yee, the enigmatic San Francisco politician known for his past brushes with the law and diverse array of stances on major policy issues, positioned himself last year as an opponent of a ban on shark fin soup, the Asian delicacy that depends on grisly fishing methods. That turned ... More >>

Leland Yee, Champion of Shark Fin Soup, to Tout More Politically Correct Broth

Leland Yee likes all types of soup​State Sen. Leland Yee, the enigmatic San Francisco politician known for his past brushes with the law and diverse array of stances on major policy issues, positioned himself last year as an opponent of a ban on shark fin soup, the Asian delicacy that depends on ... More >>

Think China's Doping Pigs? Not Nearly as Much as American Farmers Are

​Last year, American readers clucked their tongues when news emerged from China about outbreaks of illness traced back to Chinese farmers who doped their pigs with clenbuterol, aka "lean meat powder," to make them more muscular. Oh, those Chinese! What we didn't know is that the majority of Americ ... More >>

East Comes West

Naivetea's Lawrence Lai Talks Taiwanese Oolongs and Kettle Whistle

NaiveteaNaivetea's owners, Lawrence Lai and Ann Lee.​The Bay Area is steadily, quietly becoming a nexus for premium Chinese and Taiwanese tea in America. The owners of Teance, Far Leaves, Imperial Tea Court, and Aroma Tea Shop all travel to Asia to tour plantations and buy directly from farmers an ... 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 Spot of Tea at First Kettle Whistle

A Spot of Tea at the First Kettle Whistle

Jesse HirschPeach oolong iced tea and a first course, including bánh mì financiers.​Tell Tale Preserve Company and Naivetea launched their monthly tea event this weekend at the Burritt Room, and if you haven't attended many tea services, it may take a bit for the East-meets-West conceit to s ... More >>

Taiwanese Food Blogger Gets Jail, Trader Joe's Should Stop Feeding Dumpster Divers

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Why I'm never becoming a restaurant critic in Taiwan. The Taipei Times reports that a local food blogger was just sentenced to 30 days in jail and almost $7,000 in fines for writ ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Snow Ice in Sunset, Tortas for Two

Summer Sweets: 37 Degrees Dessert Cafe's Shaved Ice

Luis ChongGreen Tea Ice at 37 Degrees Dessert Cafe.​The sunny weather inspired SFoodie to visit 37 Degrees Dessert Cafe, a two-year-old Asian desserts and snacks shop in the Sunset. The cafe is now featuring a unique version of shaved ice (snow ice), previously only found at San Jose's now-def ... More >>

Dirty Beaches: Show Preview

SF Weekly Letters

San Francisco Giants May Open 2011 in Taiwan

Will this play in Taiwan? ​If the San Francisco Giants play a two-game set against Arizona in Taiwan -- well, which one is the home team? Major League Baseball has a while to work out who would wear gray and who dons the home whites if Giants and Diamondbacks players approve a league plan to open ... More >>

S.F. Rising: Sheng Kee's Pork Sung Loaf

Sheng Kee's breads look like they belong in an Easter basket.​A new weekly survey of bread in San Francisco ― the baked and the steamed, the artisan and the novelty.Pork Sung BreadSource: Sheng Kee Bakery, 1941 Irving (at 21st Ave.), 564-4800Price: $3.69Toast-appropriateness: 8/10

Beyond the Great Wall

Junk on the Pier: Princess Taiping Docks in San Francisco

Let’s Taiwan On

Oops: Pentagon Accidentally Sent Taiwan Nuclear Material. Again.

Bringing beats from the Middle East: The Israelity Tour

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

Capsule reviews of current film releases

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

The Big Picture

Week 2 of the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Funny Business

Finding a little humor amid the pathos

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Reps List

Film Reps List for 2-6-2002

Reps List

Film Reps List for 1-30-2002

A Woven Life

Slow down, breathe deeply: Here comes Yi Yi's ultra-leisurely portrayal of Taiwanese family life

Letters to the Editor

Free Taiwan; A Critical Examination of Cracker Morons and the Fall of the Roman Empire; Critical Mess; Death to the Deserving; Playing the Victim; Arrogant My Ass; Car Talk; A Parallel Universe; Released; Big Shoes; Both Sides Now

Second Time Around

Beauty and the East

A critical guide to the 16th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

Past Forward

For its 40th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival boldly goes where it has gone before

Journey to the East

A complete guide to the 15th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

God Inc.

Inner peace isn't the only thing Supreme Master Ching Hai is selling Bay Area disciples

Paper Trails