Ahaha I was at a food cart and some new Portland resident was being salty, telling her friend ‘can you believe people in SF ask me if I miss the food there?!’
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Ahaha I was at a food cart and some new Portland resident was being salty, telling her friend ‘can you believe people in SF ask me if I miss the food there?!’
I think I agree
The density of really good food is very high in Portland, and there is less of the SF style ‘bullshit food’ I dislike
I really like it here
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Despite the ‘diversity’ I would say that I feel the vast majority of the food in SF doesn’t feel like it was made for *me*
Other than the immigrant food, it feels like it was made for ‘tech guy with a midwestern palate’
Whereas the flavors of some of the food I’m having in Portland feels more bang on and unapologetic for me
Like for lunch, I’m having: a homemade tofu made with soy and sesame, topped with wasabi and uni (at Afuri)
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However, I think of all the pockets of food I like in the Bay Area as a whole, that would be hard to give up.
For example, the South Indian foods from Sunnyvale to Milpitas is to me the best outside of Chennai, Bangalore and Singapore. The ‘new’ Chinese foods of the peninsula and Fremont / Union City, has more regional Chinese foods than I can shake my fingers at. And of course W African foods of Oakland etc.
But the city itself, is not that exciting. I’m a voracious eater of the Bay Area
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@skinnylatte South Bay Indian cuisine is the BEST in North America
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Adrianna Tanreplied to suldrew 🚲🏳️🌈 last edited by [email protected]
@suldrew Canada would give us a run for our money for Punjabi, but agreed on South Indian specifically
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Michelle Catherine Marcóreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte Methinks “voracious eater of the Bay Area” may be an understatement in your case.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Michelle Catherine Marcó last edited by
@digichelle of the world
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@skinnylatte MOVE HERE WITH ME
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@botew ahahahaha maybeeeee
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@skinnylatte it wasn't always this way, but there's been an explosion of "business food" / "bowl food" (I think this is the same as what you called "bullshit food") alongside the arrival of the tech bro with a lot of the good immigrant food getting pushed out.
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@skinnylatte we've got one West African but it's pretty darn good (a vegetarian's opinion)
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@skinnylatte One of my hottest American food takes is that SF and NYC have amazing food if you're gonna drop a bunch of $$$... but if you only have like $10 to spend, you're probably gonna get a better meal in PDX or LA.
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@sidereal SF’s $$$ is also aggressively mediocre, other than Atelier Cren which is $$$$$$
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@PizzaDemon nice! Oakland and San Leandro have one per block, which is very nice, but none of this at all in SF (a handful of Ethiopian spots and that’s it)
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@sidereal @skinnylatte I think that’s an extremely reasonable take
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@analogist @sidereal New York at least has vast array of $ regional Chinese and Caribbean foods
I’m thankful for the decent Mexican in SF, tho it’s not numerically equivalent to just the no of also great immigrant foods of nyc
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Robert J. Bergerreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte @PizzaDemon I would agree that Portland has some great food spots and its much more “democratized” than SF.
But there is a great Ethiopian Restaurant in San Jose near Saratoga: Zeni’s https://www.zeniethiopianrestaurant.com/ if you ever find yourself down that way
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Robert J. Berger last edited by
@rberger @PizzaDemon yeah I’ve been there. It’s good.
San Jose has unparalleled Vietnamese, Indian and Korean food for sure, too
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@rberger @PizzaDemon South Bay has TWO dosa shops that make the dosa exactly like I like them (Mysore / Bangalore style): Bengaluru Thindi and Surya Darshini
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Eric R. Scott last edited by [email protected]
@LeafyEricScott that, and the ‘generic new Californian’ foods that’s really just about not seasoning or not being imaginative
I don’t think I need more new Californian food beyond Alice waters, and I find it deeply boring in this decade to still be doing that
I do also have a theory that sf folks are really just not that interested in new things they don’t know, unlike say, LA or maybe even Oakland