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Kingdom of Dumplings

Steph and I went to a restaurant in outer sunset that is called Kingdom of Dumplings.  They have 2 locations, one for the restaurant and one for the factory.  They make all their own dumplings and all the ones we tried were delicious.  They had a spicy orange sauce for the dumplings which was delicious.  It was a small Asian twist on the burrito orange sauce, and I want to try my hand at making some kind of the orange deliciousness.  It was about 4 blocks from bo’s old place so I was hoping we could meet up with him there, but he had moved.  We ate at the restaurant then walked down to the factory to pick up some of the frozen dumplings.  We got to see them make a few for us while we were there, which was pretty neat.

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Dinner for Chinese New Year

I had dinner with Steph’s family for Chinese new year, and then we got them to play a few of the games we had been making.  They liked the format of the Lizard Wizards, and we got to play a good number of rounds of Bot A Boom.  Steph and I made some Tom Yom to share, and had a little left over this time.  The rest of the food there was tasty, and since there was so much of it I took a good bit home.

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Drinks with Brian

We met Brian and one of his friends at San Pedro Square Market, drinking at MarketBeer Co.  The place was very cute, and there were many options for food and drink around.  I didn’t get anything, bust Steph got a tasty cider and pho.

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Dinner in the City with Nick

Steph and I went up to SF to have dinner with Nick at an Ethiopian place near where he lives called “Moya.”  The place looked really nice, but was closed for the long weekend.  I’m guessing it is family run, and when the family is away they just close up.  We drove to a place a little bit away that served Eritrean food.  The difference between Eritrean and Ethiopian is minimal, so we were satisfied with it.  It was hard to tell if the differences were because of the slightly different origins, or from the differences between the two restaurants.  We showed up at the right time, because when we left there was quite a line.  After dinner we stopped by a place near Golden Gate Park called Purple Cow.  It is a tiny boba shop, but some of the best Boba I’ve had.  If I’m ever back close to it I’ll surely stop by for a boba tea.  We then stopped by Nick’s place and played a round of Mario Kart.  The computer won, but just barely.  Nick seems to be liking the city when he takes advantage of it, but as expected he isn’t doing nearly as much there as he had previously expected.

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Steph and her Japanese Candies

Steph decided that she wanted to do one of her Japanese candies.  So we looked at the ones she had left and decided on a little bento box that she had done before.  They were all very tasty.

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Dinner at Iguana

We went to a burrito place for dinner with Brian and some of his friends.  We knew a few of them, but didn’t know most.  The place was on the same block as La Victoria, so we stopped by and got 6 things of orange sauce.  The Iguana place had it’s own orange sauce which had a lot more flavor and spice, but wasn’t as creamy.  We didn’t like it as much since it overpowered everything else, and we were happy that we got so much of the La Vic orange sauce.

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Dinner with Nima and Caryn

I biked over to Nima and Caryn’s place and met Steph there for dinner.  Caryn had cooked a really amazing spinach stew, and it was very hearty considering it was vegetarian.  She also served some cheese and bread, with the cheese being a really good sour feta.  They also gave us some really amazing tea and ice cream after dinner.  Nima showed us his new toy, a quadracopter.  Steph and I were able to do some basic control with it, but Nima had gotten very practiced and was able to show us an inversion trick.

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Zeni

Steph, Jeremy, and I went to Zeni for some tasty Ethiopian food.  It was very good and we got the three things that we’d found most tasty in the several times that we’ve been there: Foule, Gomen Kitfo, and Yemizir Wat.  We managed to finish off the entire dish, which is the first time we’ve done that since I’ve been going there.  This is usually because we don’t start on the bottom bread until the toppings are nearly finished, but this time I started digging into the bottom as soon as it was possible, and we didn’t get any refills on the bread rolls.  I was getting a caffeine headache, and they didn’t have any caffeinated beverages, since their fountain drink machine was broken.

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Koi Palace

Nick invited Steph and I out to Koi Palace for dinner on New Years.  We got the Peking duck and it was very tasty.  There were two other preparations of duck, but they weren’t nearly as good.  Steph got some tofu and noodle dishes and I really liked those as well.  There were also some soup dumplings as the highlight of the meal.  We ate with some Boxers and former Boxers (people who work at Box).  They were all nice and fun to be around.

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