It is with great sadness that I announce: all the bicycles in my building have been taken. Including my two beloved, wonderful, retro steel bikes. I’m in shock obviously but I also feel calm (not my first rodeo). I’m very glad I had the opportunity to build and ride such nice bikes. If you see a vintage Rivendell and a Soma MTB, please let me know.
Just thinking about how when I moved to this part of the world, I missed my home food a lot but found new cuisines and ingredients that filled that hole. Like, HK / Cantonese / Toishanese food (the primary Chinese food of SF) is similar to what I crave but not 100% it. Malaysian and Singaporean Chinese food hits different.
Mexican, Salvadoran food has felt more homey in some ways.
A person jumped on the hood of a Waymo driverless taxi and smashed its windshield in San Francisco’s Chinatown last night around 9PM PT, generating applause before a crowd formed around the car and covered it in spray paint, breaking its windows, and ultimately set it on fire. The fire department arrived minutes later,...
Bring your bike on BART. However, many elevators in BART stations don’t work so I would hesitate to bring heavier bikes, e-bikes or loaded touring bikes I can’t carry.
Every other subway car has a bike area. This one is in one of the newer trains, which are much nicer.
#Israel has now dropped the equivalent of 150% as many tons of explosives on #Gaza as the US dropped in atomic bombs on #Hiroshima. I am sure you have seen the photos of what that did to Hiroshima.
25,000 tons of explosives on Gaza means 70 TONS of explosives dropped for EACH & EVERY square km of Gaza. Or 180 tons/sq mi.
It would be like dropping 8500 TONS of explosives across every inch of #SanFrancisco.
I find it disturbing that capitalism takes and creates wealth and then outsources the problems it creates to us.
I was at a restaurant (pay at counter) type, and my meal was like $35. And I had to pee. But they told me the “restroom is out of order”. But it wasnt because i saw employees use it.
As someone used to southeast Asian and East Asian malls, the Westfield and all of SF’s malls are kind of silly. There aren’t any interesting shops, the food selection is poor and there isn’t a train station in its basement (what do you mean I have to walk outside to get a train.. that isn’t very frequent?!)
As someone who lives less than a mile from the Westfield, I’ve never once wanted to go there for anything. Who are the people who are surprised / sad it’s closing?!
Question for anyone who is working on self-driving taxis here in #sanfrancisco ... What happens if someone barfs in the car? Is there some kind of barf recognition #algorithm that tells the car to go back to the depot for cleaning? #autonomouscars
Sometimes I think straight people speak for us when they say there's no homophobia or transphobia in the SF Bay Area, when in fact, queer folks know there's no such thing as no homophobia or transphobia, including in the SF Bay Area
The problem with these $200 pp ramen restaurants in SF is (1) I'm glad people are going, I know why restauranteurs in this city feel they need to focus on the top end (2) most of the time, ramen and Japanese spots in SF that charge $200 are not 5x better than things that cost $40 or less in almost every global food city that isn't SF. Or even in San Mateo (which has markedly better Japanese food).
Last night while walking my dog someone asked me if they could ‘cook my dog’ (presumably because I’m Chinese and I cook dogs). And I run into these signs every half a mile or so from Nob Hill to North Beach. Welcome to super anti racist, progressive San Francisco!
(Two months ago a lady pointed a blow torch at me and said she’d like to burn me for being Chinese. I’ve just spent thousands of dollars in therapy.)
I laugh at foodies who say ‘the best dimsum is at the cheapest takeout places’ when (1) they get their stuff frozen from the same places and (2) nice dimsum with your family is the only way I know how to dimsum
Koi Palace (Daly City) is one of them.
HL Peninsula (South SF), Peony Jade or Ming’s Tasty (Oakland), East Ocean (Alameda)
In the city, Harborview and Yank Sing. I prefer the former tho Yank Sing has a few classics that are better.
The Tenderloin in SF is oft-maligned. People are afraid of it, and point to it as proof of many of San Francisco's problems.
To me, my neighborhood welcomes all: including immigrants and homeless people. Almost all of my neighbors are people of color. Its languages are Vietnamese, Teochew, Spanish and Yucatec Maya.
I'm deeply suspicious of anyone who shits on the TL. We also have the best farmers market
A group of protesters is disabling robotaxis by placing cones on their hoods, and I am laughing my ass off.
Autonomous cars are a blight, and it is the private-profit-maximizing opposite of what we need in dense, urban areas (i.e. more pedestrian spaces, fewer cars, more transit).
The energy here is pure chaotic good and I’m loving it.
“Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis With Traffic Cones”
In the 1980s, the firm that had the contract for upholstery of BART seats paid people to slash the seats. People slashed in specific patterns so the company would know who to pay.
It’s now September 2023, which means that exactly 5 years ago, I moved to San Francisco with Sabrena and Cookie. She moved here without ever having been to the US!
In the first 2 years, I was going back to Singapore every couple of months (work stuff). It didn’t feel like I’d really left. Then Covid-19 happened. I realized that if we hadn’t left for SF, we would be like the thousands of SG-MY couples separated during travel restrictions; unable to see each other for years.
Beyond the shock of the $22 burrito, La Vaca Birra’s burrito IS really good. I’m not shocked at anything anymore, the rice and meat and beans with some sides at a Mexican restaurant in the TL is also $22.
I’m happy to pay more for great Mexican food and for immigrant run restaurants. I’ll always grumble about prices of ‘new Californian cuisine’ restaurants with fancy chefs who don’t season their food.
A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (www.theverge.com)
A person jumped on the hood of a Waymo driverless taxi and smashed its windshield in San Francisco’s Chinatown last night around 9PM PT, generating applause before a crowd formed around the car and covered it in spray paint, breaking its windows, and ultimately set it on fire. The fire department arrived minutes later,...
San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones (www.techspot.com)