She's home from France

I'm still trying to figure out a blog style. Do I even have time to be thinking about blogging? Helvetica (it's actually arial!) +default blog with giant photos will do for now. Cheirie bugged me the very next morning to go to the Ferry Building so we could grab Blue Bottle Coffee and Acme bread for some apparently, super excellent butter she got while she was hanging out in France.


Yay, coffee!

I also got a waffle. It was good but not as good as the waffles I have off the So Good Belgium Waffle truck at school! He sometimes in Golden Gate Park. I hear that he's also at other Farmers' Markets too.


My sister was talking to some out of towners and I selfishly complained that the waffle isn't as good. I'm kind of a dolt sometimes.


Cheirie ready to attack the ridiculously delicious butter she brought home.


Honey stick samples :) don't remember the names, doh!


The ridiculously delicious butter.


You would think, it's just normal butter with seaweed but in it's actually hand made butter! I don't know if I will taste anything as luscious for a while.


Also sampled some chocolate. Om nom nom.


You licked it!!! Oops! :P


Lol, my hair. I really like this room. Book shelf above bed but it's constructed into the wall.


I like this sweater a lot. I got it at UO back when they still sold Lux. They probably still do, I dunno.

Well, it's been a long day!

I'm in summer school. I practically have classes day to night. Rather tiring but fun. I sound like a preschooler saying this but I look forward to seeing my classmates everyday.

I'm finally using Picasa now. I thought I would like it a lot but it turns out, it's not intuitive enough for me to find the full size photo in my galleries. What's up with that? It's okay though! I just need to edit part of the link to get the desire size of photo I want. Pretty neat.

Brunch at Zazie.

I regret not coming to Zazie with my other friends the week before this. I had to cancel the morning of! I'm felt so awful but I'm glad everything is good at home! I originally opted to go somewhere in the city but was too lazy to go out there to find parking. I found parking immediately at Zazie even though it usually is rather difficult. The joy!

Photo with Angela since she hates taking photographs, muwahah.



I shared the gingerbread pancakes (with some pear compote which was mediocre and apple sauce. I've had better pear compote elsewhere!) Also shared the crab benedict (a little stingy there aren't ya?). I think I rather go to Mama's if I ever want crab benedict again.









I had a tartine the last time I was here. I was not blown away. When will San Francisco offer me a unique tartine that doesn't have salmon and cream cheese? Sigh.

Renegade Craft Fair 2011

It's ridiculous that I did not take any photos of the actual fair but I was definitely there. I was helping out Janine and Glenn at Uppercase Publications with Catherine and my friend Annie. I will be sure to take more photos next time.





Annie (Curbside Treasure and a gifted vintage typewriter. Ah, I just saw her photos. They're much better than mine. I should shrink mine to oblivion!

On to the food! I had some southern fried chicken, a pie pop and Jamaican tea. I always forget to think about my health when purchasing meals.







I'm much happier with the way I post now. All I need to do is go to my Picasa gallery and right click for the drop down menu and "copy image URL." So much better than using the blogger tool!

slanted door/woodhouse

Went to Slanted Door (express) today and Woodhouse. Yum.

Grainy photos =o= this is what happens when it's too dark and you don't want to use flash.

REMINDERRRRRRR

This is a reminder to take a photo of the flowers near Brian's house at night before they disappear! Gotta have my camera, gotta have my tripod.

Tsukiji Fish Market

Oh Japan :( my heart goes out to you in this time of difficulty!

Anyway, I wanted to continue my posts for Tokyo even though I started blogging about local places again :)

I had wanted to go to Tsukiji Fish Market since my first time in Tokyo but I never woke up early enough. If I had, I would be able to see the tuna auctions! The tuna auctions were closed in January. So sad! Speaking of Tsukiji Fish Market...and tuna auctions, I heard Sushi Ran in Sausalito have fish from Tsukiji. Curious! How do they participate in the tuna auctions? Are they silent???

This time around, I still didn't wake up early as intended but my sister and I still went.

The trooper :D can't even tell she was suffering from a fever!

There was a crazy line at Sushi Dai and the other sushi places but it was about 4k yen per omakase box so sister and I opted to go to this chirashi zushi place. It was about 1.5k-3k yen per bowl and it came with some kind marinated squid and seaweed miso soup.

The mysteriously stuffed squid. So delicious. My sister initially said they were some kind of female part of a fish. Thinking about it now, that doesn't even make any sense!!! I asked the chef what it was and all I heard was "ika" and the lady next to me confirmed that it was ika but still, what the hell was inside??

The miso soup was also really tasty. Seaweed was fresh and a little crunchy :3

Didn't get good shots because I was in a rush to eat! Hahah. We got otoro and maguro over sushi rice. I was also feeling sick so I'm unsure, but I think there was too much vinegar in the rice. Oh brother.

Now that I've visited Tsukiji, I would not recommend going and that the restaurants are a sure tourist trap. They have nice lunch sets for ~2k-3k yen in Shibuya in Mark City. I say, you can probably get a few good snaps the wholesale market is open~! Though, as B says, "at least you can say that you went." :)

Food wise, rather than sushi or sashimi, I think Tsukiji is more famous for their tamagoyaki! I was being a fail and didn't get any photos of the millions of tamagoyaki and kitsune places. Although tamagoyaki is easy to make, I would pick one up as you're walking around the market. They are as cheap as 100 yen for tamagoyaki on a stick. It shouldn't be more since eggs are cheap. There were also quite a few donburi places. If they had oden with mochi kinchyaku, I would revisit for sure.