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General Tso’s chicken – Grand Palace Restaurant

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General Tso's chicken Grand Palace Restaurant

Wok sauteed chicken with onions, green and red bell peppers, and black fungus in special sauce over steamed white rice. To go special $6.75
Grand Palace Restaurant, South San Francisco CA

Like I’ve said in a previous post, every place has their own version of General Tso’s chicken. Grand Palace’s version uses sauteed sliced chicken instead of deep fried breaded chicken bits.  Their sauce also isn’t sweet or sticky. So what I’m saying is that, I don’t like this version very much – LOL! But it true, after all the guilty from ordering General Tso’s chicken, I want the satisfaction of biting into fattening, fried chicken pieces.

Chicken with bean curd – Hung To Seafood

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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!

Tacu-tacu – Limon Rotisserie

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Tacu-tacu Limon Rotisserie

Side of Peruvian style rice topped with sliced tomatoes, red onions and chopped cilantro.
Limon Rotisserie, San Francisco

I’m not sure what’s in this rice that makes it Peruvian, but it tasted pretty good.  It wasn’t as tomato-y as Mexican rice I guess, and they must use different spices.

Strawberry lemonade Limon Rotisserie

Strawberry lemonade. $2.50

BBQ pork – Hahn’s Hibachi

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BBQ pork Hahn's Hibachi

“Thin sliced pork, marinated and sizzled on the grill.  If it ain’t sizzled it just ain’t right!  A tasty favorite here at Hahn’s!  Our pork fans go crazy over this dish.  Used by Pork Phobic Group Therapy facilitators to show those folks that have an irrational fear of pork that pork is good, pork is friendly, and pork is tasty!  Nice Pork!”  Served with steamed rice, fresh cucumber salad, kim chee and sprouts.  $10.50
Hahn’s Hibachi, San Francisco

Although the menu description is a bit ridiculous, this huge pile of meat is pretty tasty!  I have no idea what the brown sauce is that they ladle on top of the bbq pork, but it’s pretty good.  I guess you can’t go wrong with gravy.  I also love the pickled cucumbers that comes with the dish.  The pork is sliced pretty thin so it’s very tender and has a great smokey flavor.  When you see this on the menu, don’t expect it cooked bulgogi-style!

6 ounce lobster tail – The Lobster House

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6 ounce lobster tail The Lobster House

Steamed and served with drawn butter and lemon wedge, seasonal vegetables, rice pilaf and homemade sweet cabbage.  $21.95
The Lobster House, Palm Springs

I think that you can probably already see in this pic that the lobster is WAY overcooked.  Why, why, why!?  This was another sad plate at The Lobster House.  I just checked on Yelp and this place only has 2 stars.  I should have checked before we dined here!  The sides were throw-away items that did nothing to save the butchered lobster tail.

Cajon shrimp – The Lobster House

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Cajon shrimp The Lobster House

The (cajun) shrimp is served with seasonal vegetables, rice pilaf and sweet cabbage.  $19.95
The Lobster House, Palm Springs

Omg!  These shrimp were SO overcooked!  This plate made me more than a little sad.  Everything on it was poorly cooked and/or drenched in butter to try and cover up the bad quality of the ingredients.  I couldn’t taste much of the cajun flavor on the shrimp since the overcooked taste overpowered everything.  Sadly, this was a meal I can’t take back.  😦

Shima aji nigiri – Tokyo Go Go

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Shima aji nigiri Tokyo Go Go

Spanish white mackerel slices over sushi rice, with pickled ginger and wasabi.  $6.50
Tokyo Go-Go, San Francisco

This was on their nightly special list so we decided to try it.  The waitress told us it was Spanish white mackerel.  I’m not sure if that’s correct because Googling “shima aji” comes up with many different results, none of which are for Spanish white mackerel.  This just adds to my frustration with the use of common names in communicative nomenclature, but that’s for another blog – lol!  Whatever we ate, I really liked it!  The shima aji wasn’t fishy tasting at all.  It had quite a firm texture and a mellow flavor.  I loved the peach color that gradated to a bright pinkish red.

Congee – Ton Kiang

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Congee Ton Kiang

Rice porridge topped with fried crispy wontons and chopped cilantro.
Ton Kiang, San Francisco

My first congee experience was horrible and I’ve never liked this Chinese rice porridge since.  I was in the San Francisco Chinatown and had walked into a random Chinese restaurant where everything was written in Chinese except for a few menu items tacked onto their walls, one of which was congee.  I ordered the chicken congee without really knowing what it was.  When I received the HUGE bowl of white rice porridge, I was so disappointed.  There are a few textures I really don’t enjoy and runny, slightly slimey, slightly thick and gelatinous porridge with bits of things floating in it is one of them, lol!  I took a few bites, left the restaurant, and have never tried congee since. 

…Until my trip to Ton Kiang!  And I must admit, that it wasn’t half bad this time around.  It still took some mental tricks on my part to try it, but I believe that I almost enjoyed it.  I think this version was thinner than the previous and didn’t have any mysterious ingredients hiding inside.  The crispy wontons and cilantro also helped to disguise the porridge texture and added some familiar flavors.  I’m not going to start ordering congee on a regular basis, but at least now, I know I can somewhat enjoy it!  🙂

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

Carne asada burrito – El Farolito

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Carne asada burrito El Farolito

Super burrito with soft flour tortilla filled with grilled steak, rice, beans, fresh tomatoes, onions, cilantro, salsa, cheese, sour cream, and avocado. $6.25
El Farolito, San Franciso

Like most Mission burritos, this one from El Farolito is ginormous (and quite delicious if I may add)!  The carne asada was tender and flavorful, and the other ingredients are evenly portioned.  They don’t over-fill the burrito with rice like some other taquerias.  The salsa, however, was SO frickin’ salty!  It pretty much destroyed my taste buds and ruined several bites of the burrito.  I immediately stopped using more once I figured out that it was the salty offender, lol!  If you plan on tackling this huge burrito, save your appetite or stow half for later!

7×7 Magazine’s The Big Eat San Francisco: 100 Things to Eat + Drink Before You Die – 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

Dungeness crab arancini – Beretta

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Dungeness crab arancini Beretta

Deep fried crab arancini served with a calabrese aioli. $10
Beretta, San Francisco

These are one of my favorite appetizers at Beretta! They are perfectly cooked and taste amazing with the calabrese aioli.  The warm arancini balls have delicious bits of dungeness crab inside and the arborio rice is soft and comforting – YUM! I only wish you got more that 4 arancini because I could eat these all day. I snapped the photo as the sun was setting through the front window to a pretty cool effect.