Monthly Archives: September 2007

San Francisco Department of Public Health Ratings

Posted on 9/27/2007 by grubgirl

A reader writes in:

Just read your latest blog. So I wanted to share this with you.
Hing Lung
El Zocalo
Sushi Zone
Old Mandarin
Wow, Old Mandarin totally surprised me with their score!

Yes, grubfans, you CAN eat in clean, sanitary surroundings and still get reasonably priced food. Oh wait…both Sushi Zone and Old Mandarin ran on the high end of my mid-range. Well, yeah, at least with Hing Lung, you can see that it may not be Mr. Clean spotless. :-p

This brings up another grub destination that I was planning on visiting, Go Go Cafe. But upon reading a certain review on Yelp that mentioned:

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San Francisco’s Styrofoam Ban…

Posted on 9/26/2007 by grubgirl

How come some restaurants still are giving me food (at least in my fuzzy memory) in styrofoam containers?!

Maybe if some of them have the right quant jocks, they can get out of it, as Zagat’s explains.

“…establishments are required to replace it with compostable (paper- or plant-based bio-plastic) or recyclable (e.g. aluminum) products only if it is affordable to do so. Affordable in this case means within 15 percent of the cost of Styrofoam goods.”

So if X = 500 green containers,
and Y = 500 icky styrofoam containers,
what’s the formula to see if a place can still use the icky stuff without getting fined?

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Hing Lung: Top San Francisco Jook Joint

Posted on 9/25/2007 by grubgirl

Hing Lung Restaurant
674 Broadway St. (at Stockton)
San Francisco, CA 94133
415-398-8838

Finally, a true grubgirl-confirmed value find. If you can make it here on a weekday between 8-11am, you can order jook specials for $2.50 a pop. That’s right.

K-dub and I happened to have a Friday “work from home” morning and ventured out here. Upon entering, you’ll walk down a short hallway with the kitchen directly visible through greasy glass panes on your right. There are lots of steaming pots of jook, and several deep fryers, and I noticed at least 3-4 cooks. (They weren’t waiters, that’s for sure.).

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Sushi Zone: Great Value off Market

Posted on 9/22/2007 by grubgirl

Sushi Zone
1815 Market St
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 621-1114
Cash only

Tucked away in an alley that actually is off Market Street (wow, in-car navigation systems really DO work!), I convinced my buddy, The Jeremy Piven Doppelganger (TJPD), to stand in line because the wait was supposedly worth it. The kicka** parking spot we nabbed on the side street also helped us with our overall experience.

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Posted in Castro, Japan, Meals more than $15 per main course, Mission | 1 Comment