Posts Tagged ‘Restaurants’

JUST the other day, I felt a pang of guilt for not having blogged sooner about my favorite Chinese Restaurant in the whole wide world. How on earth have I forgotten Hung To when in fact, my husband and I have been coming here every other week ever since we stepped foot in San Francisco some few years ago? Shame on me!
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SINCE I am thousand miles away from my mom and currently do not enjoy the liberty of her home cooking whenever I crave for it, it is such comforting to know that there is a restaurant not too far away from downtown San Francisco that serves food just the way my mom does it.
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FAMOUS restaurants are famous because their kitchen is fired up with celebrated chefs. Restaurant-goers frequent them, and food critics praise them. They get to be awarded by highly prestigious and credible award-giving bodies like the S. Pellegrino, Santé and James Beard. Restaurants of these stature do not know the word ‘walk-ins’ in their vocabulary. Go ahead and try to inquire and most likely, the closest available date they can give you is in the next 6 months (if you’re lucky) to 1 year (did I hear you say ‘ridiculous’?). And most likely, too, they will advise you to make a reservation a year in advance of your desired date. And most likely again, they will ask from you a written request sent by fax or email (with your contact number) the way reservations are usually made (at least with them).
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