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skinnylatte

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

Queer Southeast Asian in California working on #civictech. I lead the product team at San Francisco Digital Services.

I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, photography and other analog hobbies.

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skinnylatte, to ai
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When the AI tries to offer you ‘insights’ on historians’ LinkedIn posts..

#AI #LinkedIn

skinnylatte, to random
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I love this guy he is so enthusiastic

https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/112454693841942459

skinnylatte, to animals
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When you have to wait more than 10 min for transit

divya, to random
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Someone in San Francisco has a car license plate called MATUNGA

skinnylatte,
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@divya omg

skinnylatte, to random
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I’m in it!

https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy/112457889743495660

skinnylatte, to random
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There's a lot of bad financial advice on the Internet presented as 'life hacks'. They target people who have a deep insecurity around financial best practices, and then traps them into learning and doing terrible things that are not good for financial security.

So much of the financial industry is heavily regulated, but lifestyle content pretending to be financial advice isn't.

skinnylatte, to food
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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).

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/drew-magary-sf-noodle-in-a-haystack-19459906.php

#Food #SanFrancisco

skinnylatte,
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There's also a new $350 pp sushi spot in Nob Hill which is run by an extremely mediocre other sushi joint.

LA / NYC / Singapore also have $350 pp sushi joints, but SF's $350 sushi joints are not anywhere near the quality of those spots.

Go to Sushi Sam's Edomata in San Mateo or Zushi Puzzle in the Marina (at the bar, dining room is different). Spend 30-50% of that.

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@bunnytown it's pretty good but i wouldn't put it in the 'top end' type of sushi i'm referencing here

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@bunnytown san francisco doesn't have those spots. LA and NYC do. basically stuff that would be comparable to the best joints in tokyo.

the kind of place you save up for and go once.

skinnylatte,
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@bunnytown growing up in singapore with a huge variety of japanese restaurants, something like wako is good but sort of like everyday sushi. we have omakase at every price range and even the conveyor belt fast food sushi is (to me) higher quality than the best sushi restaurants in san francisco, which is why the nob hill place annoys me so much

i save almost all my japanese food eating for singapore when i'm home (and LA when i visit)

skinnylatte,
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@bunnytown damansara is pretty good for related food (malaysian)

the other place is curry leaves bistro in pleasanton

the other spots in the city are.. not very good

or you can go to hai ky mi gia in the TL, and order house special no 7 (dry flat egg noodles, with soup on the side), add a braised duck leg and hot soy milk and that's 100% a singaporean breakfast (they're vietnamese but because they are vietnamese chinese the food is exactly the same)

skinnylatte,
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I’m fine never going to such expensive restaurants again in my life (I used to be a food writer and it was my job to go to such places), my tastes (and budget) have changed, but also I am morbidly outraged at how very aggressively okay places in SF are now charging astronomic prices and that’s what I’m calling out.

That’s how I feel about the food scene here. It’s very aggressively okay

skinnylatte,
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@dgentry it’s very good! (At least I’ve been to Kajikens elsewhere and they’re always good). That’s the kind of noodle spot I like. No BS

skinnylatte,
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I also think it’s the natural end state of the bizarre world of ‘fine dining’ where it’s no longer possible to succeed in the top end of restaurants without real estate patronage in major global cities. Other cities have the density of population and business travel to sustain the illusion of that business but SF is way too small for that.

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@Catfish_Man it’s fine, those two spots I’ve named are better, and cheaper these days.

The absurd price in most global cities with a good sushi scene is usually ‘meal of a lifetime’ worth it, the ones charging that here in SF are meh

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QUESTION ABOUT
are all the malfunctioning airplanes only used for domestic flights? were all the malfunctioning planes deployed only for use inside of USA?

was wondering if, since other countries have their own plane inspection programs, why would other countries not catch any of the problems with those planes? and i reckoned that maybe it's because Boeing was selling those faulty planes to USA airlines only for domestic flights; by-passing inspections from other countries.

skinnylatte,
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@blogdiva there were a bunch of fatal crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia on those planes first, and then Boeing tried to say it was because third world countries don’t have good pilots

skinnylatte, to BelieveInFilm
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Something I see almost every day..

Cable cars on California Street

(Hasselblad 500C, 100mm lens, Kodak Portra 400, developed in Bellini C-41 kit, scanned on Fuji Frontier SP3000))

skinnylatte,
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@theplaguedoc it's fun. very slow. but fun. the cable car museum is also very cool

skinnylatte, (edited ) to SanFrancisco
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I rarely make it to Ocean Beach (it's too cold 350 days of the year) but on the days where it's warm with blue skies, it's wonderful.

(Olympus XA2, Fuji 200, Bellini C-41, Fuji Frontier SP3000)

skinnylatte,
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@luis_in_brief so does running away from the water. hahahah

skinnylatte,
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@motoridersd or you're this grandma

https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/amy-appelhans-gubser-farallon-islands-swimming-19460296.php

lol not me

i grew up at the equator so i have strong feelings about what beaches and oceans should be (not like this)

skinnylatte,
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@motoridersd i've been in the heated pool.

peterme, to random
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Hey @skinnylatte, wondering if you've caught this local YouTuber, whose latest video explores some Asian fusion places throughout the East Bay. https://youtu.be/8nKQibEOUfQ?si=l890DpEZR4xVcHM3

skinnylatte,
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@peterme yep I follow him. Love his Oakland recs

skinnylatte, to LosAngeles
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Saw some impressive samuri gear in Alhambra.

#LosAngeles #Alhambra #California #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #Photography #Samurai

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