Ever heard of Noriega Teriyaki House?
Well if you haven't then I suggest you to get off your butts and stop reading this and go and see what a great place it is. Well that's just my opinion, but seriously the place is pretty nice. I've gone to that place many times, that sometimes i get sick of going their to eat ahaha...but in my opinion the service is pretty good, the waiters/waitress are really nice, and always check on you every couple of minutes to see if you're in need of any assistance. Not only is the service is good but so is the food, well in truth some of the dishes need working on, but if you go there i suggest to order some sushi its pretty much freshly made which is why its so good and also some of their noodle soups, or rice dishes, also with some dishes free soup and dessert come along with it. The atmosphere around the restaurant is pretty nice, there's music and many Japanese decorations around the place, kind of giving off a relax clam feeling, and there's also and indoor fountain. Now for the times, if you the place dull of people i suggest times like 12 or 1, and if you're the quiet type i suggest around 3-4 or so. If read all this im pretty sure you get the point of how much i love this restaurant, so why wait and go there now to eat.
Here's a link with some photos: http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/YDeqSFd7qdbbFiBUO6Gpjw?select=nVCbiP2cT08K3qJx99LOLQ
1755 Noriega St
San Francisco, CA 94122
(415) 664-7766
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Midterm Review/Reflection
To start off I have to say thanks for everyone that participated on our Midterm skit. First off making a group and discussing what we were going to do was pretty simple and easy. It was doing what we planned out that was difficult, like our first attempts to do the skit. We all met early and some later, but not only that but we missed the passing period so not many people watched. Then their was our self control, which we completely failed at because everyone was smiling or laughing, and some of our group mates were spatting out random questions. I have to say that we were completely disorganized,and I believe that we didn't have enough people to make a great impact towards other people. On our second attempt, the whole class participated and I have to say that our group was more prepared, and we did a great job. In my perspective I saw that we made a lot of people watch what we were doing, and made them understand what the 40th anniversary was about. All in all it was a fun experience and we learned alot from accomplishing our duties or failing to do so.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
2 Reviews!
I had the opportunity tonight to do 2 restaurant reviews.
One is Little Tokyo which is on Geary Blvd. and another is Top Cafe which is a Chinese-American cafe down in Cupertino.
Little Tokyo Review
Top Cafe Review
One is Little Tokyo which is on Geary Blvd. and another is Top Cafe which is a Chinese-American cafe down in Cupertino.
Little Tokyo Review
Top Cafe Review
Monday, October 20, 2008
Eat First Restaurant (Review)
I’ve never been a big fan of Chinese restaurants or Chinese food for that matter but this place is better than most. If there was such a term, I would call it a Chinese and Chinese American restaurant simply because the menu works like a double-edged sword. There is your usual menu where the selections are in both English and Chinese but there is this other menu where everything is in Chinese. Non-Chinese readers don’t worry; I personally think the items on that menu are a bit too “authentic” Chinese for me but that would certainly please the older folks. There is an all-English lunch menu that consists of 100% Americanized Chinese food. Although I’m trying to be as un-bias as possible, I love the selections on this lunch menu. All the items on that single laminated page are about five-dollars and the dish is fairly big. I usually order either the Mongolian Beef, Smooth Egg over rice with beef or the Spicy Tofu with Beef over rice. When I compare with most Chinese restaurants, particularly in the Sunset district, a bowl of rice is outrageously two-dollars but over here, it is no different than Chinatown offers, unlimited refills on your bowls.
It’s a modern style atmosphere. You won’t get any old Qing Dynasty music but instead, there’s a flat panel television with whatever show on TVB or a sporting event on ESPN. Although it looks like a fairly decent sized restaurant, there is actually a second level. The problem I have with seating is when they really have no tables for you or you and your friends and they make you sit in a big round table with other customers. The staff here is friendly but often times too busy to remember your orders. I can’t tell you how many times a waiter came to our table and gave us the other table’s order. I guess another flaw with the staff is their tendency to go outside when business is slow and have a smoke during their shifts. Unfortunately, they don’t bother washing their hands afterwards. Overall, its good food and mediocre service and although the staff aren’t the best of all time, they do the best they can to give you food that is fresh. There was a time when we ordered a dinner set and they couldn’t give us the soup because it was boiling at the moment. It may have been disappointing to start with but eventually it arrived and it was amazing. Some may not like it but I guess that would make me a pretty patient guy.
Click here for My Yelp Review
It’s a modern style atmosphere. You won’t get any old Qing Dynasty music but instead, there’s a flat panel television with whatever show on TVB or a sporting event on ESPN. Although it looks like a fairly decent sized restaurant, there is actually a second level. The problem I have with seating is when they really have no tables for you or you and your friends and they make you sit in a big round table with other customers. The staff here is friendly but often times too busy to remember your orders. I can’t tell you how many times a waiter came to our table and gave us the other table’s order. I guess another flaw with the staff is their tendency to go outside when business is slow and have a smoke during their shifts. Unfortunately, they don’t bother washing their hands afterwards. Overall, its good food and mediocre service and although the staff aren’t the best of all time, they do the best they can to give you food that is fresh. There was a time when we ordered a dinner set and they couldn’t give us the soup because it was boiling at the moment. It may have been disappointing to start with but eventually it arrived and it was amazing. Some may not like it but I guess that would make me a pretty patient guy.
Click here for My Yelp Review
The Dim Sum of All Things Review
Note: I tried to be as unbias as possible but that mindset deteriorated in the process of writing this review.
Personal? Yes. Controversial? Possibly. Informative? Slightly. Positively-charged? Not at all. Those are the labels I would put down if I was capable of “tagging” a book. Kim Wong Keltner’s Dim Sum of All Things is a less-than-decent attempt to put Asian American culture into a better light than that of say, the early Chinese American immigrants? Considering this was her first attempt at becoming a distinguished author, I would try not to hold too much negativity towards her for the flaws seen in this book. It’s a light read and would most likely take less than a day or two if you become completely engaged into reading it. Let’s try to break this book down into pieces. Half of the first quarter of this book consisted of a mishmash of story background, objective and character insight/development. The other half however consisted of both assumptions and attacks on culture and gender. The following half-size chunk of this book was very slow paced and we finally get a bit of progression with the story but it never really got to the point. The final quarter of this book sums up a lot of the story’s objectives but I personally think it felt a bit rushed. Conclusively, I enjoyed the last 3/4ths of this book more than I did having to put up with the first quarter of it.
Let’s begin with the characters. I believe Keltner’s strongest attribute to her book writing style would be the way she presents her characters. The main character Lindsey is described very thoroughly from what goes on in her mind and what she assumes is going on around her. I enjoyed the descriptions of Pau Pau from Lindsey’s perspective but if I was to recall, this book is in the second person narrative. In my opinion, this book works much better in the first person narrative because there is already enough of what Lindsey assumes strictly from the narrators words. Lindsey is a character that I probably wouldn’t mind confronting in person if I could read minds. It’s amazing how Keltner chooses the absolute worst of Asian Americans as the host of this showcasing of Chinese American culture. Almost every single scene involving Lindsey and her assumptions of literally everybody around her was so negatively charged that it made me sick to my stomach. For example, Lindsey views Caucasian men as “hoarders” of all things Asian but if you had to analyze all the glamorization of White Americans and compare them to her views on Chinese Americans, you can simply call Lindsey a “hoarder” of all things White.
One of the biggest highlights that Keltner tries to showcase in her book based on the back of it are questions dealing with Chinese American culture at both its best and its worst. Keltner does a tremendous job at giving every scene of the book a lot of detail and it is easy to picture in my mind. The problem is; I saw a disrespectful attack on my heritage and even my gender in the most direct way. Keltner may not be an Amy Tam but at least Amy Tan tries to camouflage her attacks on Chinese American (and mainland Chinese) males better than the direct way Keltner does with her main character. Keltner makes it sound like Asian men are the only ethnic-gender that are cheap, Honda Civic driving, weak, nerds out in this world. The last time I checked; there are Ford loving, Star Wars idolizing, cheap white dates out in this world and that includes other ethnicities as well. Yes, this is a feministic book but this takes feminism into the more racist direction. And I quote Amazon reviewer Jay Wong, “If a WHITE person wrote something like this, then they would rightly be called an Asian hating racist.” If this book was the first Chinese American based book I had to ever read, I would totally not want to date a Chinese girl if Chinese girls would be represented by Lindsay’s almost irrational outlook on her own heritage. Having Lindsay find out that Steve was a quarter Chinese did nothing to suppress my distain either.
Overall, if you’re one to know more about contemporary Chinese American culture than you already do, look anywhere else but this book. With all due respect that I can possibly muster out of me to Lindsey Wong Keltner, nice try on your first attempt and I hope my money for your book got you something nice because I got myself some pretty expensive toilet paper. Keltner is not a sell out in my opinion despite the way I portrayed her writing style and character insights. Interracial dating and marriage is nothing new to American society in the past two decades. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it but you can not glamorize it by bashing on the other gender of your own ethnicity. It is distasteful and rotten much like your “Dim Sum” of all things.
Story Plot: C- (What was it again? Was it a neurotic girl’s goal of playing hard to get on a Caucasian man and hoarding all negativities on a culture? Trying to overcome adversity from a traditional grandmother? You get points on the second one but if it was solely the first one, you’d get D because if it wasn’t published, it’d be an F)
Character Development: B- (Your descriptions and extensive uses of the views and opinions of the characters are very well done and outweigh your lack of respect for any male both Asian or White)
Ease of Reading (level of reading/flow of reading/etc): B (It is a fast read but your lack of story continuity slows the pace down to a point where I didn’t pick up the book for 4 days)
Overall: C- (A job well done, it’s not a complete failure but at the same time the fact that you somehow got this published gives this book the much needed rescue and sums of cash into your pocket. Hopefully all that money can purchase you a nice apartment in the Pacific Heights away from the Sunset district where, you said it; most of the Chinese people live. By the way, you failed to make me be ashamed of my own culture, my own gender and my own identity.)
Personal? Yes. Controversial? Possibly. Informative? Slightly. Positively-charged? Not at all. Those are the labels I would put down if I was capable of “tagging” a book. Kim Wong Keltner’s Dim Sum of All Things is a less-than-decent attempt to put Asian American culture into a better light than that of say, the early Chinese American immigrants? Considering this was her first attempt at becoming a distinguished author, I would try not to hold too much negativity towards her for the flaws seen in this book. It’s a light read and would most likely take less than a day or two if you become completely engaged into reading it. Let’s try to break this book down into pieces. Half of the first quarter of this book consisted of a mishmash of story background, objective and character insight/development. The other half however consisted of both assumptions and attacks on culture and gender. The following half-size chunk of this book was very slow paced and we finally get a bit of progression with the story but it never really got to the point. The final quarter of this book sums up a lot of the story’s objectives but I personally think it felt a bit rushed. Conclusively, I enjoyed the last 3/4ths of this book more than I did having to put up with the first quarter of it.
Let’s begin with the characters. I believe Keltner’s strongest attribute to her book writing style would be the way she presents her characters. The main character Lindsey is described very thoroughly from what goes on in her mind and what she assumes is going on around her. I enjoyed the descriptions of Pau Pau from Lindsey’s perspective but if I was to recall, this book is in the second person narrative. In my opinion, this book works much better in the first person narrative because there is already enough of what Lindsey assumes strictly from the narrators words. Lindsey is a character that I probably wouldn’t mind confronting in person if I could read minds. It’s amazing how Keltner chooses the absolute worst of Asian Americans as the host of this showcasing of Chinese American culture. Almost every single scene involving Lindsey and her assumptions of literally everybody around her was so negatively charged that it made me sick to my stomach. For example, Lindsey views Caucasian men as “hoarders” of all things Asian but if you had to analyze all the glamorization of White Americans and compare them to her views on Chinese Americans, you can simply call Lindsey a “hoarder” of all things White.
One of the biggest highlights that Keltner tries to showcase in her book based on the back of it are questions dealing with Chinese American culture at both its best and its worst. Keltner does a tremendous job at giving every scene of the book a lot of detail and it is easy to picture in my mind. The problem is; I saw a disrespectful attack on my heritage and even my gender in the most direct way. Keltner may not be an Amy Tam but at least Amy Tan tries to camouflage her attacks on Chinese American (and mainland Chinese) males better than the direct way Keltner does with her main character. Keltner makes it sound like Asian men are the only ethnic-gender that are cheap, Honda Civic driving, weak, nerds out in this world. The last time I checked; there are Ford loving, Star Wars idolizing, cheap white dates out in this world and that includes other ethnicities as well. Yes, this is a feministic book but this takes feminism into the more racist direction. And I quote Amazon reviewer Jay Wong, “If a WHITE person wrote something like this, then they would rightly be called an Asian hating racist.” If this book was the first Chinese American based book I had to ever read, I would totally not want to date a Chinese girl if Chinese girls would be represented by Lindsay’s almost irrational outlook on her own heritage. Having Lindsay find out that Steve was a quarter Chinese did nothing to suppress my distain either.
Overall, if you’re one to know more about contemporary Chinese American culture than you already do, look anywhere else but this book. With all due respect that I can possibly muster out of me to Lindsey Wong Keltner, nice try on your first attempt and I hope my money for your book got you something nice because I got myself some pretty expensive toilet paper. Keltner is not a sell out in my opinion despite the way I portrayed her writing style and character insights. Interracial dating and marriage is nothing new to American society in the past two decades. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it but you can not glamorize it by bashing on the other gender of your own ethnicity. It is distasteful and rotten much like your “Dim Sum” of all things.
Story Plot: C- (What was it again? Was it a neurotic girl’s goal of playing hard to get on a Caucasian man and hoarding all negativities on a culture? Trying to overcome adversity from a traditional grandmother? You get points on the second one but if it was solely the first one, you’d get D because if it wasn’t published, it’d be an F)
Character Development: B- (Your descriptions and extensive uses of the views and opinions of the characters are very well done and outweigh your lack of respect for any male both Asian or White)
Ease of Reading (level of reading/flow of reading/etc): B (It is a fast read but your lack of story continuity slows the pace down to a point where I didn’t pick up the book for 4 days)
Overall: C- (A job well done, it’s not a complete failure but at the same time the fact that you somehow got this published gives this book the much needed rescue and sums of cash into your pocket. Hopefully all that money can purchase you a nice apartment in the Pacific Heights away from the Sunset district where, you said it; most of the Chinese people live. By the way, you failed to make me be ashamed of my own culture, my own gender and my own identity.)
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