Sweet and delicious! Warm crisp croissant layers, filled with an almond and frangipane paste and topped with toasted almonds and powdered sugar. Noms!
Tartine Bakery, San Francisco
Frangipane almond croissant – Tartine Bakery
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Blueberry pear scone – Arizmendi Bakery
This scone isn’t one of my favorite items at Arizmendi, but it still tastes pretty good. I love how the bakery uses great, wholesome ingredients. There just wasn’t a lot of flavor in this particular scone. It also had an odd, damp texture. $2.75
Arizmendi Bakery, San Francisco
Assorted temaki (hand rolls) – Tenka Japanese Restaurant
I think I’m undecided whether I truly like hand rolls or not. It’s just a lot of seawead to deal with and these were chewy and hard to chew through, making it hard to neatly eat the rolls. They do stuff quite a lot of filling in these hand rolls and you don’t have to use chopsticks, which is great for incompetent users like myself. The spicy tako temaki was my favorite!
Tenka Japanese Restaurant, San Mateo CA
Road runner – tuna, salmon, avocado and cucumber. $2.95 for happy hour
Spicy tako – octopus with spicy mayonnaise. $2.95 for happy hour
Cajun – fried oyster, avocado and cucumber with spicy mayonnaise. $2.95 for happy hour
New York – shrimp, fish eggs, avocado and cucumber. $2.95 for happy hour
Negima – Tenka Japanese Restaurant
Sliced beef rolled with scallion and avocado. $2.95 for happy hour
Tenka Japanese Restaurant, San Mateo
This appetizer read better than it looked once it arrived. Perhaps it was the lighting, but it looked so unappetizing. I’m not even sure what the sauce was on top. I can’t say that I remember what these tasted like, but they were cheap!
Asahi beer.
Assorted sushi – Tenka Japanese Restaurant
This place is awesome for happy hour! The prices are great and the sushi doesn’t suck. You always have to be a little weary of super cheap sushi, but this place serves above decent sushi at rock bottom prices. That’s awesome in my book! You can get a nice large meal for only a few bucks. Of the sushi below, the scallop nigiri was my favorite!
Tenka Japanese Restaurant, San Mateo
Hotatagai nigiri (scallop). $1.25 happy hour
Unagi nigiri (fresh water eel). $1.25 happy hour
Hamachi nigiri (yellow tail). $1.25 happy hour
Cape cod cocktails – Downtown Tiki Lounge
Well vodka with cranberry juice and a lime wedge. $4 for happy hour
Downtown Tiki Lounge, San Mateo CA
This is a pretty chill place with great happy hour drink and appetizer specials. The tiki vibe is adequate with all the fake palm trees, bamboo trim, and tiki statues scattered throughout. Only ducked in for a quick drink while waiting for friend, but this place would be a great after work hang out!
Roasted duck and bbq pork – Hung To Seafood
Served with bok choy and rice. $7
Hung To Seafood, South San Francisco
Another large and yummy dish. The bok choy and rice are great for soaking up all the yummy juices and fat from the meats. I wish the duck skin was a little crispier, but it still tasted great!
Chicken with bean curd – Hung To Seafood
With mushrooms and celery, served over rice. $6
Hung To Seafood, South San Francisco
The portion size of their lunch plates are ridiculous! All that food for only six dollars! The dish tasted pretty good too. They use large pieces of chicken breast and I love the whole mushrooms. Noms!
Beef with five spices – Hung To Seafood
Sliced beef served with imitation jelly fish and red vinegar. $5.20
Hung To Seafood, South San Francisco
This is definitely NOT what I expected when I ordered this menu item, lol! But you know what, it tasted great! I’ll admit that I’m not a big fan of the imitation jelly fish though – I can’t overcome the odd texture. The meat which is served cold, however, is flavorful and very tender.
Scallop and garlic dumplings – Hung To Seafood
4 pieces of steamed dumplings filled with chopped scallops and garlic. $3.60
Hung To Seafood, South San Francisco
These delicate dumplings were pretty and pretty tasty! Again, the large pieces of scallops were a nice touch. Another winner from Hung To Seafood!
Crispy lobster turnovers – Hung To Seafood
4 large pieces of deep fried turnovers filled with lobster and garlic chives, served with salad sauce. $4.20
Hung To Seafood, South San Francisco
I didn’t know what to expect when I ordered this, but I was pleasantly surprised. The pieces were huge and I love the large chunks of lobster inside. I will defnitely order these again! Not sure if the salad sauce really added to the dumplings though.
Baked bbq pork buns – Hung To Seafood
3 buns filled with tender bbq pork and coated with a sweet glaze. $2.50
Hung To Seafood, South San Francisco
This is definite comfort food, noms! And you get three of these delicious buns for so little! These buns cover most craving bases – carbs, bbq meat, salty umami, and sweet. I just recently discovered Hung To Seafood Restaurant and it’s definitely going on my great food-great value list.
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