ALL KINDS OF GOOD. APPARENTLY.

As you may have noticed, food is one of my interests. Over the last few years I have mentioned it occasionally, as well as provided a recipe or two (most of which you can find here: 'Cooking with a Lizard').
A lot of the food I have talked about is Chinese food; either cooked by actual Chinese people, or Chinese inspired and Chinese-named.

Consequently, it is with some trepidation that I viewed a list of Chinese yummies compiled by white people. That is to say, white people who are not me. What the heck do white people (who are not me) know from Chinese?


FIFTEEN CHINESE THINGS TO EAT IN SF


If you click that link, it will take you directly to the list, which also has lovely food-porn pictures. Yes, go there. Drool.

In short: little Shanghai soup dumplings, noodles, egg tarts, more soup dumplings, chicken wings, pork buns, shrimp dumplings, crab, squid, hot pot, noodles, chili pepper overload, saucy chicken and stinky tofu, noodles, and mushrooms.

You will note that much of it is NOT in Chinatown. That is because Chinatown is mostly Toishanese and City Cantonese, with only a light dusting of Shanghainese, and a few other freaks.
Mostly regular working class folks.

If the list was limited strictly to what is available in San Francisco Chinatown, it would be quite different.

In no particular order: Little steamed pork dumplings, egg tarts, steamed chicken bun, wonton, small steamed chive and pork dumplings, crab, fatty pork and snow vegetable, congee, chicken wings, and noodles noodles noodles noodles noodles.

Especially noodles.


I have no issue with that list compiled by The Infatuation; it is excellent, and I respect the dedicated research from which it sprang.
I am grateful to Nick Floulis of Chubby Noodle for bringing that site to my attention, by the way. Chubby Noodle on Lombard Street is one of those places that you should go to for some really dynamite food. Every time I've eaten their stuff, I've been happy as a clam.


Please don't ask him if he's got gluten-free.
I'm sure you know what noodles are.
They're kinda glutenish.


The Infatuation has also done a list of good things in North Beach. Coffee, beer, and gluten.






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