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It's our first time taking a long haul flight on All Nippon Airways. Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific are fully booked for flights from Singapore to San Francisco & vice versa. *.* They were not willing to put us on waiting list either.
The dining experience on board All Nippon Airways was a pleasant change to the usual SQ & CX's fare. If you love Japanese cuisine, then travelling on All Nippon Airway is a perfect choice. ;)
Here's a glimpse of what we had:
Singapore to Tokyo
Tokyo to San Francisco
San Francisco to Tokyo
Tokyo to Singapore
Details of All Nippon Airway:
W: http://www.ana.co.jp/asw/wws/sg/e/
It's our last nite in SF. We're starting to miss Crystal already! We did dinner with her at Tony's Pizza. Without any reservation, we had to wait 1.5hrs for a table. However Lin's starving and so we went next door to their takeout section for a quick bite instead. :)
Tony's Pizza does a mean Italian meatballs! :) Love it!
The pizza's overrated though. It might be our selection. We had a coal-fired New Yorker which has mozzarella, hand crushed tomato sauce, natural casing pepperoni, sliced italian fennel sausage, ricotta, chopped garlic & oregano.
Because it's a takeout section, the room wasn't heated up well. So we were having pizza in the cold! Hahahahah :))) It's a good experience nonetheless especially when it's with Crystal. :D
Details of Tony's Pizza Napoletana:
1570 Stockton St
San Francisco
CA 94133
T: +415 835 9888
W: http://www.tonyspizzanapoletana.com/index.php
Chai invited me for tea with her friends this afternoon after realizing I'm in SF. :) It's good to meet her before we leave tomorrow. :)
It's our first visit to Samovar at Yerba Buena Gardens. We like the park setting of the tea lounge. It's a nice tranquail nook in busy downtown SF.
Samavor pairs its food with tea. Chai's afternoon tea selection was a Moorish Service. It consisted of halloumi & veggie kebabs, mint Salad, hummus, roasted eggplant, greek yogurt, herbed crackers, chevre-stuffed dates and mint tea. She liked the food but not the mint tea as it had honey added to it. Some things have to be taken in its original state and we felt mint tea is one of them.
I had a heavy lunch with Sharon's sister, Angela & BIL, William earlier on. So I was happy with a pot of Lychee Black. On the menu it says "lychee fruit naturally sweetens this light, salubrious brew". Well I wasn't blown away by it.
The only thing I like about Samovar is its location. Food & tea wise were average. Tea places in Singapore, Shanghai, London, Tokyo & Hong Kong have much better offerings.
Details of Samovar:
730 Howard Street
San Francisco
CA 94103
T: +415 227 9400
W: http://samovarlife.com/
This morning breakfast was at Cowgirl Creamery. :) Our intention was for Lin to try IL Cane Rosso but it wasn't open. :(
We shared a piping hot baked egg and Gruyère cheese sandwich & hot chocolate.
The acme bread sandwich also had pancetta bacon & mushrooms in them. The stuffing was good! :) It would have been a perfect sandwich if some parts weren't burnt and were as hard as rock! *.*
Details of Cowgirl Creamery:
1 Ferry Building
No 17
San Francisco
CA 94111
T: +415 362 9354
W: www.cowgirlcreamery.com
We like 54 Mint so much, we visited it again in less than a week! :)
This time round, we tried Calamari in Purgatorio (cast iron‐seared spicy squid with smoked paprika, rosemary, garlic and breadcrumbs). I'm not a squid person but Crystal likes them. :)
We also tried Rigatoni alla Carbonara (durum pasta with egg, guanciale, black pepper and pecorino Romano).The guanciale enhanced the otherwise blend pasta. :)
Don't you love these round little potato dumplings with beef & pork ragu (Gnocchi al Ragu)? :) The texture tasted like Shanghainese or Korean rice cakes. ;)
Now this Budino al Cioccolato, homemade chocolate pudding is ooh sooo good! We finished it up in no time! :)))
For the next visit, I would want to try their lunch menu. ;)
Details of 54 Mint:
16 Mint Plaza
San Francisco
CA
T: +415 543 5100
Yerba Buena Gardens is such a pretty spot for pinics. It provides some tranquilty amidst the chaos in a busy city. I pulled Lin here for our Tuesday breakfast before she heads to work. :)
We grabbed a cup of hot chocolate and ham & cheese crossiant from Peets Coffee & Tea just across from Westin. :)
Well, the hot choc & crossiant were mediocre.
We'll definitely bring a proper pinic basket the next time round! ;)
Details of Yerba Buena Gardens:
W: http://www.yerbabuenagardens.com/
Crystal's under the weather. Her roomie, Michele brought us over to their place for takeout dinner from San Tung Chinese Restaurant. :) According to Crystal, this place's always packed. There was a queue even on a Monday nite! :O
The tza jiang noodle sauce was delish. I think the whole dish will taste better if we had eaten at the restaurant because the noodles clumped together after we brought it home. The shredded pork with chives and string beans were homely. They went well with Crystal's steamed rice. :)
And the star dish is San Tung's dry fried chicken wings. It satisfied our cravings for Korea's Two Two's chicken! :D Love it!
Details of San Tung Chinese Restaurant:
1031 Irving St
(between 11th Ave & 12th Ave)
San Francisco
CA 94122
T: +415 242 0828
W: www.santungrestaurant.com
We were lazy this evening and didn't check out any restaurant. Besides it's difficult for the 2 of us to try out much yums since the servings are always so huge. We'll rather have a company of 3 to try out any restaurant. Instead, we grabbed dinner from Bristol Farms at Westfield Shopping Center. :)
Gosh! The serving was huge! We had difficulty finishing half a chicken! We chose macaroni cheese & spinach as the sides and we had an additional clam chowder soup. *.*
While the food's delish, a smaller portion's much appreciated! :)
Details of Bristol Farms:
Westfield Shopping Center
845 Market Street
San Francisco
CA 94103
T: +415 979 0106
W: www.bristolfarms.com
We were tired by the week of activities & all we felt like doing was shop and people-watch today. :) Christmas is round the corner & Union Square is bustling with activities.
I wish we skate... ;) It looks fun!
What else did we do? We tried capturing pics of the cable car! :) We didn't take the ride as the queue was long. *.* I'm happy with just having the snapshots in my blog. ;)
Blessed Christmas one & all from San Francisco! :D
We chose to do a slow Sunday and started our day at Brenda's French Soul Food. We made an effort to be there early, but there was already a queue...
We like the use of tin cans & metal buckets to hold cutlery & sauces. :)
Brenda's has gotten good review for its crawfish beignets and we gotta try. :) Wish Crystal was here! The beignets came in three! Good stuff has to be shared!
The fillings consisted of crawfish, spiced with cayenne, scallions and cheddar. Lovely but was too much for just the two of us. *.*
We were stuffed by the 3 beignets. So we couldn't enjoy the egg benedict as much as we would like to. Brenda's provides egg benedicts with a twist. You may choose to be conservative by having your egg bene with ham or be a little more adventurous by having them with fried catfish or fried chicken. We opted to have ours with fried chicken. :D
Brenda's more suited for a company of 3 or more. It's a challenging task for Lin & myself to finish up eveything. ;) We'll bring Crystal along next time.
Details of Brenda's French Soul Food:
652 Polk Street
San Francisco
CA 94102
T: +415 345 8100
W: http://frenchsoulfood.com/home.htm
We did Thai tonite at Marnee. :) This place is recommended by the Michelin Guide 2011. We got a table even though we didn't have a reservation. ;) Nice!
Crystal's co-worker joined us for dinner. Because he's a vegan, we ordered a Veggie Tom Yum soup. We were silently wishing there were shrimps swimming in it! :)))
It's good we didn't have to share the other dishes with him. :) So we had green curry chicken! Yeah!
And we had stirred fried beef. :D Very tender & flavourful.
I was expecting the pineapple rice to be served in pineapple shell but no, it came in a plate. :))) There were many shrimps in it! It's a little sweet due to the onions.
Marnee serves really good mango sticky rice. Yummmmm... *.*
The coconut ice cream was a little disappointing though. Firstly we didn't think coconut ice cream & cashew nuts to be a perfect match. Peanuts would be a better choice. Secondly, though there were coconut flesh in it, it wasn't that flavourful somehow. Thirdly the ice cream was a tad heavy.
We were stuffed at the end of it all. :) Marnee satisfied our crave for Asian cuisine. :D
Details of Marnee Thai:
1243 9th Avenue(between Lincoln & Irving Street)
San Francisco
CA 94122
T: +415 731 9999
W: http://marneethaisf.com/
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