I randomly wandered into a dumpling shop I’ve never heard of next to SFSU and, well I think I’ve found my favorite xiaolongbao in the city. It’s better than all the more famous ones!!
It’s called Mom Dumpling in park Merced. They make their own dumpling dough AND noodles. The crab and pork xlb is especially good, almost as good as the good ones I’ve had in Taiwan and Shanghai
There’s a part of my soul that deeply needs Chinese bakery bread. My fave in the city is Yummy Bakery, my fave in east bay is Napoleon Super in Oakland Chinatown
As extractive “wildcrafting” has become popular, supposedly treaty-protected #Indigenous access to ancestral gathering sites has diminished, says Michelle Week (Sinixt, Arrow Lakes), who runs x̌ast sq̓it, an Indigenous foods farm near #Portland#Oregon.
“You have the privilege to go out and gather these things without fear of harassment, but my community, who’s native to this place, we just don’t have that luxury.”
Sara Calvosa Olson (Karuk), author of the cookbook Chími Nu’am, says Native foods have a stigma---unless of course they’re on the menu at a #BayArea Michelin-starred French restaurant.
“They have rabbit, and quail, and deer meat, and our mushrooms, and our fish, and our shellfish, and all of that, that they are serving as the height of what you could eat as a human being. But they’re unavailable to the people who originally cultivated these foods into existence,” Olson says.
Just popping up to share that we now have confirmed dates for the West Coast leg of my Lifehouse tour! It would make me beyond happy to see you on August 1st at Elliott Bay in Seattle (w/Dean Spade!),
August 3rd at Page Against the Machine in Long Beach,
August 6th at Green Apple’s 9th Ave store in San Francisco, or August 8 at Powell's in Portland – and hopefully break bread with you afterward. Feel free to share with anyone you think might be interested! #mutualaid#climate#anarchism#books
Oh, and a very important follow-up request for folks in #Seattle, #Portland, the #BayArea and the #LA basin: if you work with or know of any #mutualaid efforts that would like to present themselves to my audience, set out literature, etc., please let me know as soon as possible. It’s my great hope to use each one of these book talks to share a little bit of shine with local organizers in every city I’ll be visiting. 👊
I'm raising lots of kale on our balcony. The cooler weather this week has brought out the blue on the leaves. Very delicious in salads and lots of dishes. Highly recommend for gardeners in San Francisco! #sfba#SanFrancisco#MissionBay#BayArea#Dogpatch#VegetableGardening#Urban Gardening
If you’re an organizer and you’re organizing for Gaza you can apply to get home cooked food from this amazing community of mutual aid folks (mostly in east bay I think)
"The House that Art Built” is a historic showcase in San Francisco.
In addition to the exhibition, which features 11 artists associated with the Oakland-based nonprofit Creative Growth, SFMOMA has also permanently acquired more than 100 works created by artists with developmental disabilities.
There are two places in California that I think come close to a ‘Malaysia / Singapore / Indonesia style char kway teow’
Curry Leaves Bistro in Pleasanton
Borneo Eatery in Alhambra
The Thai pad see ew and Cantonese chow fun are closely related and easier to find, but to do that other style you need a wok that’s about 3x hotter, lard, and rice noodles that are flatter and less sticky.
#NowPlaying - had i been buying LPs in 1967 & only had debut albums to go by, there's a very good chance that country joe & the fish might've been my favorite #BayArea band, at least at first. way sharper, weirder, & more outwardly #psychedelic than the first albums by the dead, airplane, quicksilver, etc. (though "surrealistic pillow" came out before it). should probably revisit their earlier EPs. @vinylrecords@Corry342
La Parilla Loca near Elmhurst Park in east Oakland reminds me of some of the best LA taco trucks. They use a charcoal grill, they have a large menu, they have vampiro and mulita, they make their own tortilla, they have a large range of good and not too sweet agua fresca, it’s in a parking lot, there’s a train rumbling overhead..
Vampiro is exceptional. Burritos are the size of a very muscly person’s forearm. Great birria
#SanFrancisco, #bayarea please keep an eye out for my niece. She is an at-risk minor and missing since yesterday. Please forward. Could be in the Tenderloin or The Haight, hangs out at skate parks and punk shows.
If you like chai, one of the better cups of milky chai in San Francisco is at Haraz Coffee House on Bush & Franklin. The Adeni / karak shai is similar in spirit (almost exactly identical) to Indian chai.