Finally a reason to be alive, eating is like awesome

In: eating out, duck, udon, pork belly, sushi rolls, scallops


Duck @ Limon

Out: cooking, ramen, galette, dessert, hot pot, Italian (this is World Cup related, slightly)
Shortest fad (I'm fickle): macaron, American breakfast
Best food: Mom's, Japanese (runner up: Thai)
Most fun meals: Koo, Dinner In The Kitchen (Two)
Best drink: Sugar cane juice, Cambodia (runner ups: Strawberry coconut juice, Taipei; White mocha, USA)
Best dessert: Tarte au poires, Paris
Best service: Grand Véfour, Paris
Best food city: Paris
Favorite San Francisco restaurants: Limon, Koo
Favorite South bay restaurant: Gochi
Best new dish by mom: Pork belly and cabbage (variation on this)

Tried and love
- 白花芒果 (mango variety), Cambodia
- 魚蛋 in Mong Kok, Hong Kong
- Sweetbreads @ Winterland, San Francisco (closed)
- Gumbo @ Farmerbrown, San Francisco
- Baked buns and sweetened milk @ Neptune, Richmond/Vancouver
- Taiwanese sandwich @ Umeko, Taipei
- Atemoya (sugar apple) and wax apple, Taipei
- Lamb liver @ Incanto, San Francisco
- Beef tongue @ Gochi, Cupertino


And here goes below: the best things I ate in no particular order, holla


Lamb riblet @ Nopa, San Francisco
Super tender lamb comes off the ribs easy like what


Tsunami roll @ Tsunami, San Francisco
Right size maki deep fried perfectly


小籠包 @ Din Tai Fung, Arcadia/Taipei
Say what you will, I've yet to find something that beats Din Tai Fung xlb's (soup dumplings); runner up: Crystal Jade, Yè Shanghai


Chicken curry vermicelli @ Yuan Xin, Paris
Best chicken curry outside my mom's cooking, big pieces in bone with skin over vermicelli


Laperau @ Manufacture, Paris
I see more rabbit in my future


Spoonful of Happiness @ Koo, San Francisco
Ankimo wrapped in whitefish (left); uni, tobiko and quail egg (right)


Grilled Chicken Thigh @ Two, San Francisco
Never has grilled chicken been this tender


Burabata negi udon @ Gochi, Cupertino
I can eat this weekly


肉腩四季荳 (pork belly with green beans) @ Sea Harbour, Richmond/Vancouver
My favorite meat with extra saucy coated flavor


Pork and shrimp noodle with gailan @ Thing Thing, Paris
Can't beat this comfort dish


Hainan chicken @ Yuan Xin, Paris
Flawless (deboned chicken, with skin on Hainan rice and pickled vegetables)