No Longer A Virgin

I am proudly to announce I am no longer a virgin...driver in San Francisco! Seeing the title might've given some of my mates a small heart spasm (or attack, who knows). But yes, I am proud to say that I have got over my fears of driving the very narrow, very congested, confusing streets of San Francisco-especially on a Saturday. The greatest part of my day started when I (or rather,we, since I went with a buddy=D the buddy system, kids, stay safe!)came to San Francisco and it was bright and sunny! It was actually warmer than the weatherman had predicted, as always ;D
But yes, now to the main point. San Francisco is known for so many culture and that brings so many different types of food together. You basically have a globe within a 2 mile radius! So, of all the wonderful food around the world at my fingertips, what did I start with? Dim Sum, of course! Baby steps, everyone, baby steps (that and Kelly, my buddy paid hahahah).
So we went to S&T Hong Kong Seafood Restaurant for Dim Sum. I can't remember the last time I had Dim Sum in San Francisco, but I always like eating it there. Maybe it's the air, maybe it's the whole street lined with Chinese shops, or maybe it was all the waiters and customers chatting in a language unknown to me. There's just something exciting about that. Anyways, thank goodness Kelly spoke Cantonese because it provided quite a show. I didn't understand anything the waiters said to her and vise versa, but from the laughing and the body language, it seemed really funny.

There was this waiter who came to see what we wanted to order and he jabbed at the number three that we wrote down (as in three dishes of the same thing-it was this really sweet custard like dessert).
He had this incredulous look on his face and the way he asked her, there was a teasing shock. It was really funny.
We also ordered this dish that was beef tripe cooked with soy sauce (least, I think). It was really good. Crunchy and chewy, but in a way that it doesn't give you the worn out feeling after eating half of a bowl of it. I ordered other stuff as well, but I only remember that they are all collectively known as dumplings. Mental note, pay more attention to food names if we're going to blog about it. Baby steps.



Good Dim Sum, great wait staff with an awesome sense of humor, easily accessible by car-which is a true blessing, and of course, adjacent to beautiful Sunset Boulevard on Noreiga Street.
Oh yes and I also went the Asian Art Museum, but the only thing that's close to food there is as I was going up the escalator, I looked into the cafe, and saw this magnificent large bowl of salad that a woman was eating. It looked delicious and so refreshing!
All in all, I am very proud to say that I got through the San Francisco streets without any mishaps (except for getting lost and somehow finding our way again through our great sense of directions; that one pedestrian that I almost did not see, bless him he smiled cheerily and said it was okay...thank you sunny weather). Oh yes...and the scratches I got on my front bumper from scraping against the purple post in the parking garage at Westfield. BUT...good food, good shopping, good museum walk, great pictures, and of course, BEAUTIFUL WEATHER!