Notices by Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io), page 2

Essentially I’m never ‘giving up my friends and family and access to food I like to own a shitty home in a shitty suburb’

Not saying it’s not possible, but you can’t compare one of the most expensive places in the world to.. the south.

My theory is that almost every major global city has almost the same housing price issues (except Tokyo, but it’s not easy to move there and live there). My housing options are the same in SF and Singapore.

It would also take me a lot to move outside one of these cities. Not because I don’t think life is worth living outside, but because I value some things more than home ownership.

Saw someone from the south say that the reason Bay Area people ‘can’t live on 100K’ is they have luxuries like nice houses and cars instead of ‘a starter home in the suburbs’ and a ‘mid range car like a Toyota’ and lady I don’t think you know what you are talking about

Try 3x-ing that to get any of those things and childcare

Local credit union (SF Fire CU) took out an ad on the bus that said, ‘we use AI (Actual Individuals)’

#SanFrancisco #ai

@adrianco the city bus does but the Amtrak bus can be pretty fast

@pewnack we are not cultured enough

@siddhesh_p on yeah, Toronto and LA and New York feel very familiar to me in that regard

I’ve been going to get my clothes mended and altered by a few nice old Toishanese aunties. I barely understand them, but they laugh at how many holes I have in my clothes and fix them up nicely for me.

i'm pretty certain i've eaten at more than 8000 chinese restaurants. time to start documenting them all

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-i-learned-eating-at-8-000-chinese-restaurants

#Food #ChineseFood

@timrichards @sister_ratched @rowangrigg @nihilistnomya yay!

I like to go to my fave Chinatown restaurants during work hours and get little snacks for the Vietnamese ladies who work in the restaurants around me. They always want to try new things but the Chinatown places are closed when they are done with work.

Today:

- chive dumplings
- mung bean durian cakes
- homemade soy milk

I also bought and gave out a lot of snacks from a Chinese bakery

At this point any SF ‘ethnic’ restaurant that dares to put out dishes with extreme flavor, I will go there.

I’m tired of paying gobs of money that feel like it was made for a person who has never tasted flavor before

Sometimes I see ‘ethnic restaurants’ in San Francisco super tone down and white wash their food for a hypothetical median person here. They always feel they have to.

There was this Nepali restaurant which finally closed down that was always trying to do like ‘tandoori salmon’ or super generic momo, and it probably just made me never want to go there, ever. It’s not that the food doesn’t feel ‘real’ or ‘authentic’ it is just unsure who they are doing this for.

Makes me sad, so much wasted potential. That’s also why I tend to go to East and South Bay for food coz it’s clear they’re making immigrant food for immigrants, and you can taste the difference. It’s night and day.

I like that I have a place in my neighborhood where I can buy Polaroid film and film developer chemicals in person

#BelieveInFilm #Photography

@coreysnipes oh, lmk when you’re heading here next and if I’m there we can have coffee

For veg folks, El Cantaro is an excellent fully vegan taqueria near the aquarium and I like going there often even though I’m not vegan. There’s a vegan taco truck closer to moss landing (I think it’s called Freddie’s). Again, Great Wall downtown has a large veg menu and you can also ask them to recommend fully vegan items or veganize stuff. They speak English.

Bunch of basic Indian spots around but if you’re used to Indian in South Bay Area, you’ll be shocked at the difference in quality hehe. I had a samosa that looked more like a giant dumpling and I was so mad.

FYI @paninid

I often put folks closer to downtown Monterey, at the Days Inn on Abrego St behind the Denny’s. For an average of $70 a night on week days, not terrible, and close to food and groceries. It’s a 40min walk to the Aquarium from there along the coastal trail. Or you can take bus 1, 2, A or B.

Downtown; I like the Fieldwork Brewery for outdoor space and NA beers (also regular beers), Captain + Stoker coffee, Turn 12 sports bar (food is surprisingly good and late night.. late for Monterey). Alvarado Street Brewery for good pub style food. Ocean Sushi Deli for takeout sushi and decent curry and tonkatsu rice. Great Wall for the best Chinese downtown (good for veg and GF also, you just have to ask to clarify). Ad Astra for bread and pastries and coffee. Revival ice cream for honeycomb ice cream.

I prefer eating in Seaside and Marina: Butter house (Filipino American breakfast spot, so pancakes but also fried rice), Ho Wah (best wings and crab Rangoon), Barba Azul (Sinaloan seafood), tacos at Santa Fe (a grocery store). Best halal food at Monterey Halal Market over there too.

If you have to pick a tourist spot on the wharf just go to Old Fisherman grotto. Very good chowder and seafood.

If you want to rent a car locally, there are lots of options. You could go to Big Sur. Unfortunately transit there between cities is not that great (though you can rely on MST city bus A and B to do most of Sand city, Marina, Seaside, Monterey), and 5 goes to Carmel, but between Monterey and say, Capitola, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Gilroy, you probably need a car.

There is a shuttle (Groove Transportetion) between SFO and SJC to Marina and Monterey as well and that’s what I take more, but when I have time I take the train.