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We walked down to the BART station from Hillary’s house near UC Berkeley, taking a detour through the university campus. This squirrel practically ran right up to me, and for a second I thought it was rabid, but Hillary said all the squirrels on campus are tame and approach people for food.
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If only L.A. were so easy to navigate by public transportation.
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I’d been wanting to take Hillary to Yank Sing near the Embarcadero for dim sum for a long time. Jasen and I have come here twice before, and it’s soooo good. Yes, I know it’s not actually in Chinatown, but this place is amazing, and they even have xiao long bao, the Shanghai steamed soup buns that explode juicy broth in your mouth.
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After Yank Sing we took the BART down to Powell Street for some shopping in the touristy area. We went into the giant Westfield mall with circular escalators so we could use the nice bathrooms at Nordstrom, then crossed over to the huge Forever 21, where we got sucked into the vortex of cheap clothing.
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Once we were shopped out, Hillary and I hiked up to North Beach for some fettuccine carbonara.
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Hillary took a photo of this cool building while we were walking to the MacArthur BART station from North Beach. (That’s the closest station to North Beach, but it’s still a little bit of a walk.) We rode the train home and woke up early the next morning for...
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...breakfast at La Note in Berkeley with our dad, our brother Jeremy and Jeremy’s girlfriend Ariana, who had driven up to the Bay Area to meet us! Those are Jeremy’s lemon gingerbread pancakes with poached pears and Hillary’s creme fraiche pancakes above.
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I keep ordering Les Oeufs Lucas when I come to this restaurant, which are eggs with goat cheese, chives and roasted tomatoes. I love tomatoes with breakfast. I think this dish is named after the owner’s son or something.
Well, I guess that’s it! In conclusion, Berkeley and San Francisco rock, Hillary rocks and Hillary and I clearly like to be as indulgent as possible.
Looks like you had lots of fun and all that food looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteI am literally drooling... especially about dim sum, which you can't get here, but also about lemon gingerbread pancakes. Gaaaah... I miss West Coast food so much! Looks like a wonderful time was had all along the way!
ReplyDeleteLove the photos, so many artistic angles...Hillary has a great eye! The food looks positively incredible...made me so hungry! Glad you had so much fun together.
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Dim sum. Yum. Sounds like a perfect weekend. I just finally booked a ticket to go visit my mom in Orange County and am going to try to visit friends up in Sacramento, Davis, and SF. How I miss California. I have a very special place in my heart for SF.
ReplyDeleteF21 is seriously like a black hole. I go in there and time just stops. Craziness. All the food you two ate looks really delicious and is making me wicked hungry.
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I've been busily jotting down notes on all the places you've mentioned for when I visit San Francisco next summer :) Sounds like a great weekend and the food looks/sounds delicious :)
ReplyDeleteWow, I've literally been coming to this post every day, traveling vicariously through your pictures. I'm so glad you guys had such a good time! What a wonderful trip :D
ReplyDeletesuch lovely photos. i want to see what you saw in sf! i live so close and never even go anymore.
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