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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 08:04:56 JST Adrianna Tan

   My hot take is Portland has the food scene that SF thinks it has, but I wouldn’t be able to live / eat without Oakland / Fremont / Milpitas / San Jose anyway

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 08:11:24 JST Adrianna Tan

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     My LA friend helped me make piece with my food sadness in SF (I think other than a handful of things I don’t have a great time eating there), he said think of SF as Santa Monica or Beverley Hills. Maybe a few things (like Atelier Crenn) are amazing but it’s low on good and mid range options. Oakland / Fremont / Milpitas / San Jose is like San Gabriel Valley, where you can get endless great immigrant foods and nice restaurants also.

     I think he’s right. A lot of SF food has ossified and gentrified and it just isn’t .. fun, or good, outside of a handful of places that I love.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 08:16:16 JST Adrianna Tan

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     LA and SGV, however, reminds me the most of eating in Singapore and Bangkok.

     Fantastic high end restaurants and amazing low end food. Hyper regional but also good fusions. It is my favorite US food scene for sure, but I am sad I don’t spend as much time in LA as I would like

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     crzwdjk ✅ (crzwdjk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 10:44:54 JST crzwdjk ✅

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     @skinnylatte when it comes to chains, it's often actually the same ones that are in Fremont/Milpitas and SGV.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 10:44:54 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @crzwdjk yeah the basic Chinese chain I expect of any major city. Painfully absent in sf (which doesn’t make it easy for chains, but they also ends up just making it hard for everybody)

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     D J Capelis (djcapelis@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 05:30:25 JST D J Capelis

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     @skinnylatte Huh, I’ll have to give it another try! It’s been awhile but I previously categorized it “pretty good for Oregon” and very much intended that as faint praise.

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     D J Capelis (djcapelis@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 05:33:11 JST D J Capelis

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     @skinnylatte This feels wildly accurate. I really felt this way when I lived in The Mission and am glad that’s a neighborhood I visit and don’t live in now. I don’t understand how so many people love it. SF’s food isn’t usually that much better on the west side but at least it’s more interesting and has a greater range.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 05:55:55 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @djcapelis white people food is way better, way better density of good ramen and sushi than sf + Oakland put together, better seafood and bakeries and pizza. Bougie places actually good rather than just bougie.

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     D J Capelis (djcapelis@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 05:57:42 JST D J Capelis

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     @skinnylatte Huh! I do have a little sushi place I love up there, I’ll have to give more of the city a fresh look. :)