Chiu Chow Deep Fried Shrimp Balls This is a bittersweet post for me. It is also the reason I have reemerged from my blogging hiatus. ...

First of all...sorry for the long hiatus. Last May I resumed blogging after another long break. I had fully intended to get back into it ove...

Last week my friend and I were treated to dinner at Habitat at the Fairmont Hotel, where Chef Francis Ward prepared eight courses for us to ...

Well, hello. It's been a while since I even logged in here, let alone post something to this lonely, abandoned space. What I can say? I...

Sorry for the break in my San Francisco posts—but I went out of town (again!), and didn't manage to get all caught up on my blog before ...

After spending the afternoon in Monterey Bay and Carmel, our plan was to drive the two hours back to my godparents' neighborhood for som...

On Memorial Day, we drove two hours down to Monterey Bay to check out the aquarium. After a few hours of octopuses, bat rays, and jellyfishe...

After four days in San Francisco proper, we trekked over to the suburbs of the Bay Area to spend some time with my godparents. On the first ...