Daily Archives: October 7, 2011

Duck confit – Reform Club

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Duck confit Reform Club

Large leg and thigh served with succotash, corn, tomato, shelling beans and basil. $40 for 4-course dinner.
Reform Club @ Specchio, San Francisco

This dish was one of the highlights of this pop-up dinner, partly because it was a full sized portion.  The other courses were tiny!  OK, the duck was also delicious and it was beautifully plated.  I also loved the succotash.  The bright vegetables were a great counterpoint to the rich duck.  The skin on that duck was SO good  and crispy, noms!  One guy at our table contemplated ordering another portion.  He was a big fellow and he was starving, poor thing…

Yeung qi dze – Ton Kiang

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Yeung qi dze Ton Kiang

Deep fried eggplant slices filled with a shrimp mixture.
Ton Kiang, San Francisco

Yet another disappointing dish from Ton Kiang.  These stuffed eggplants are one of my favorite dim sum dishes, and they managed to completely ruin it for me!  You can see from the photo that the color is a bit off and that’s because this was one of the greasiest things I’ve ever eaten!  The greasy was literally dripping off this thing once you picked it up with chopsticks, EW!  It had absolutely NO flavor except from the excessive oil that end up coating your entire mouth.  Good thing this was the last plate we had, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to taste the others from the oily film coating our taste buds.  Sadness…

7×7 Magazine’s The Big Eat San Francisco: 100 Things to Eat + Drink Before You Die – 2010, 2011, 2012

Carnitas tacos – La Taqueria

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Carnitas tacos La Taqueria
 

Roasted pulled pork with pinto beans, salsa and wrapped in flour tortillas. $3.50 each
La Taqueria, San Francisco

My apologies, but this place is SO over rated and over priced!  The tacos may be large, but they were bland and the juice from the salsa (seemed to be used as filler) kept dripping down my arm.  It baffles me how these tacos made it on the 7×7 Big Eat 2011 list but then again, so did dim sum at Ton Kiang!  Both are disappointing and not worth a special trek to try them.  I honestly think that any taco truck in the Mission has better carnitas tacos and they’ll be cheaper too.  You’ve been warned, lol!

7×7 Magazine’s The Big Eat San Francisco: 100 Things to Eat + Drink Before You Die – 2011, 2012, 2013