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[oyceter]

1. I think I am renaming the rats so that the brown rat is Ed-rat and the white hooded one is Al-rat. They're both still very shy, but the brown one runs around and sniffs at everything and jumps away and jumps back again and runs around more when the white one likes snoozing under the blankets until dragged out by his brother or me. They are still so adorable!



2. I have finally started taking advantage of academic library access! JSTOR! BAS! Access to back issues of Publisher's Weekly! I already have several books out on ILL so I can try and catch up with manga scholarship, particularly anything that focuses on gender.



3. Any book recs for books by POC about food? Fictional or non-fictional is fine, have already read Fortune Cookie Chronicles, Serve the People, and plan on reading Madhur Jaffrey and David Masumoto.



4. East Bay people! Tell me about your favorite restaurants!

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[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

*takes notes* :P Seconding Breads and Fonda; I haven't been to Kirala since the mid-1990s. oyceter, Breads is broadly within most student budgets. It's been a while since I went, since to avoid waiting one should arrive right when they open (5 or 5:30), but I have a vague recollection of $10 entrees.

Re: upthread, one can have slightly CA-cuisine-ized long bao at Kirin, on Solano x The Alameda (MLK), which has very good if not necessarily authentic food? I dunno at all about the authenticity.

Other things: Angeline's (New Orleans Cajun) in downtown Berkeley, Sura and Sahn Maru (both Korean) on Telegraph near 45th-ish, Cafe Colucci (Ethiopian) on Telegraph x Alcatraz, Bette's Diner (breakfast/brunch) on 4th St in Berkeley, Jodie's (breakfast, and great fried chicken) on Masonic x Solano in Albany, Saul's Deli (good chicken and matzo ball soup, etc.) on Shattuck x Vine near Black Oak Books (and if there before 6 p.m., visit Masse's Bakery next door, mmmmm), Lalime's (French Med--same owners as Fonda) on Gilman between Sacramento and Santa Fe in Berkeley, La Note (French Med) on Shattuck x Channing (too noisy for conversation when they have live music, though). darkforge has butted in to mention Top Dog :) and, though it's not splendiferous food, the Cerrito Theater (near El Cerrito Plaza BART), where one can have a decent dinner while watching a film.

Okay, that was way too much, sorry.

[oyceter]

No no! There is no such thing as too many food recs! Really! Keep going!

Also, yaaay recs! Another classmate also recced Kirin, so I think I should definitely check that one out, and I am glad to hear Saul's is good! I have passed by a few times and wondered because I want tasty deli food.

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

:)

I think that not everything at Saul's is great (whereas everything I've had at Fonda and Kirin has been tasty and well prepared), but the chicken soup is definitely awesome.

[oyceter]

Excellent! I am still recovering from being sick and it is chilly out, which is perfect chicken soup weather.