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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 01:10:58 JST Adrianna Tan

   I feel like the people who complain Seattle has no good food are also the people who think SF has great food so maybe we should swap

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 01:12:55 JST Adrianna Tan

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     The ‘new’ Asian food in Seattle is way better than SF

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 01:13:07 JST Adrianna Tan

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     We probably just eat different things

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 01:33:45 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Mark Kraft

     @KraftTea yeah SF’s decline as a major food city (to me) is a question of rents and housing and transit. We can’t afford service workers who can stay late because there are few ways for them to get home (not SF). And the demographic shift has changed tastes and demands. All the good immigrant food is elsewhere now, mostly. And the expensive restaurants have gotten worse.

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     Mark Kraft (krafttea@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 01:33:46 JST Mark Kraft

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     @skinnylatte Not surprising, when it comes to seafood... but besides that, I'd argue that San Francisco's food would benefit from less expensive rent and more cohesive local communities. You don't really get that whole "this whole neighborhood stays open late, with a bunch of packed restaurants, competing against each other" vibe.

     San Francisco is a lot less nightlife friendly than many other cities.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 01:35:26 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @thomasjwebb SF’s food to me is only good if one makes an effort to get out to Oakland and Fremont and San Jose. The Bay Area still has an interesting mix of things (specific Indian and Korean and Vietnamese regional cuisines I can’t get elsewhere other than LA) but SF itself is pretty meh now

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     𝚝𝚓𝚠 (thomasjwebb@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 01:35:27 JST 𝚝𝚓𝚠

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     @skinnylatte I like Portland and Seattle’s food scenes more than SF. Also music scenes are better in most respects but SF does get more famous bands stopping there.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 01:54:30 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @thomasjwebb the bay area’s white people food is absolutely terrible (with a few exceptions) and Japanese food is not as good as elsewhere unless you go to the most high end spots.

     The immigrant food is pretty phenomenal and better than other major coastal cities other than LA in terms of depth and breath. I don’t love the Chinese food in New York for example and NJ is great for North Indian but not as much as the bay area did south. The Mexican is also comparable to parts of LA but really only in deep East Oakland and Richmond (buying carnitas out of someone’s window sort of thing). Same with Korean in San Jose. Not LA K-town, but maybe half of K-town spread over a much larger area. Other cities have more range of above average Korean and Indian and Mexican, Bay Area has more depth of highly specific good one dish regional thing that is comparable to a good thing where it’s from (there are two dosas that taste exactly like my favorite dosa shop in Bangalore. I know I don’t get that outside areas without a huge South Indian population).

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     𝚝𝚓𝚠 (thomasjwebb@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 01:54:31 JST 𝚝𝚓𝚠

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     @skinnylatte yeah I even like the bay area just it doesn’t quite hold up compared to the other major coastal cities. I’m in Reno/Sparks which wants to be Portland but isn’t.