Tezuka Osamu + farmers' market + deep-fried twinkies!
Sun, Jun. 24th, 2007 04:37 pmThis week, I went with
cychi and A. to see the Tezuka Osamu exhibit at the Asian Art Museum in SF.
As we got off the BART, little did we know (well, ok, A. knew) that this was the weekend for the LGBT pride parade, which meant... STREET FAIR!
It was huge! I didn't get to see most of it, as we didn't have that much time, but we all managed to find the fooding booths. We started off with funnel cake, deep fried and squiggly and covered with powdered sugar, absolutely delicious. It was the first time A. had had funnel cake ("Deep-fried dough with powdered sugar!" I said. "How can it be bad?"). Then we decided that we should probably eat lunch first before eating even more.
A. took us to a Vietnamese place in Little Saigon, in which I introduced A. and C. to the joys of roast squab, particularly roast squab with a crispy, glazed skin, oozing with juice and fat, laid on a small pile of carmelized onions and raisins. ("Better than duck!" said C. "I now think of pigeons in an entirely new light!" said A. "Squab!" yelled C. upon exiting and walking through a giant swarm of pigeons on the street.) We also had a tart and refreshing green papaya salad with little bits of beef jerky, along with stir-fried meat, bean sprouts, and other stuff wrapped in a thin, pancake-like substance, which was then wrapped with a lettuce leaf and eaten a little like a taco. Everything was extremely good, except possibly the pigeon claw, which A. discovered upon tasting was more decorative than actually edible, unlike chicken claws at dim sum.
We then went to get dessert at the fair, because they had.... DEEP-FRIED TWINKIES!
"OMG! Awesome! We must get some!" I exclaimed during our first pass through.
"Uhhh. Deep-fried what?" said A.
"I had some once. They were pretty good!" said C.
"OMG! Awesome! We must get some!" I said. "OMG! Beignets!"
"What's that?" asked C.
"More deep-fried dough! Awesome!" I explained.
"Look! Deep-fried artichoke hearts!" said A.
"Yay street food!" said C.
( Deep-fried twinkies )
( Tezuka Osamu exhibit )
( Yoshitoshi woodblock print exhibit )
( Book loot! )
( More food! )
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As we got off the BART, little did we know (well, ok, A. knew) that this was the weekend for the LGBT pride parade, which meant... STREET FAIR!
It was huge! I didn't get to see most of it, as we didn't have that much time, but we all managed to find the fooding booths. We started off with funnel cake, deep fried and squiggly and covered with powdered sugar, absolutely delicious. It was the first time A. had had funnel cake ("Deep-fried dough with powdered sugar!" I said. "How can it be bad?"). Then we decided that we should probably eat lunch first before eating even more.
A. took us to a Vietnamese place in Little Saigon, in which I introduced A. and C. to the joys of roast squab, particularly roast squab with a crispy, glazed skin, oozing with juice and fat, laid on a small pile of carmelized onions and raisins. ("Better than duck!" said C. "I now think of pigeons in an entirely new light!" said A. "Squab!" yelled C. upon exiting and walking through a giant swarm of pigeons on the street.) We also had a tart and refreshing green papaya salad with little bits of beef jerky, along with stir-fried meat, bean sprouts, and other stuff wrapped in a thin, pancake-like substance, which was then wrapped with a lettuce leaf and eaten a little like a taco. Everything was extremely good, except possibly the pigeon claw, which A. discovered upon tasting was more decorative than actually edible, unlike chicken claws at dim sum.
We then went to get dessert at the fair, because they had.... DEEP-FRIED TWINKIES!
"OMG! Awesome! We must get some!" I exclaimed during our first pass through.
"Uhhh. Deep-fried what?" said A.
"I had some once. They were pretty good!" said C.
"OMG! Awesome! We must get some!" I said. "OMG! Beignets!"
"What's that?" asked C.
"More deep-fried dough! Awesome!" I explained.
"Look! Deep-fried artichoke hearts!" said A.
"Yay street food!" said C.
( Deep-fried twinkies )
( Tezuka Osamu exhibit )
( Yoshitoshi woodblock print exhibit )
( Book loot! )
( More food! )