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If you're in the bay area, hit up Berkeley, yeah cheeseboard is great, actually anything in the gourmet ghetto is pretty yums.

Head to Sacramento, its the state capitol, and has some fun places to chill, good food...

hit up the pho in san jose, and oh my gosh yum

HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA its so girly haha

is it just me or did no one say carl's jr?!! OMGGGAAAH hi western bacon cheeseburger with natural fries and onion rings with extrrrra bbq sauce. oh and dont forget the milkshakes!!! =]

that and kfc ahha nommmm

i eat slower and less in front of new people, and REALLY neat.

when i first went on a dinner date with my bf, we each had a sushi roll, he finished his like a normal person would, i poked and prodded my way to a 40 minute meal....for a SUSHI roll, only 8 pieces hahaha

mmm thanks for the ideas, i might just have to make a sandwich to bring....

and @AyeEat we wish we were old enough lol were just shy of that

depends on if im angry or not...

a western bacon cheeseburger with onion rings french fries and a larrrrrge classic coke, shared with my bf and his double western bacon cheeseburger nommmmmmmmm carls jr.

My grandma, who came from northern china (all the recipes differ region to region, cause my grandpa from hong kong made it differently), made this braised rabbit dish. I don't know the whole recipe, but I do know it involves

reconstituted dried shitake mushrooms
dried tofu skin sticks
garlic
ginger
soy sauce
rabbit
maybe a few root veggies?

I do know to marinate any meat with some sesame oil, soy sauce, and a little cornstarch (something to do with the meat, and helps brown the meat)

I don't know what the other ingredients and seasonings were, but those were the things that I would eat up, the tofu skin, the mushrooms, and the gravy that came with it (I still can't eat rabbit).

I also remember my family would make a sauce from pickled tofu (usually comes in a jar soaking in chili vinegar (just mash it up, and if you need it a little thinner, add a little soy, or just some hot water)

Hope that helped! Good Luck! =]

My grandpa always tries to teach me how to cook by telling, I always tell him i need to watch, since he keeps saying its allllll about the timing of when you add the ingredients. (He apprenticed in Hong Kong) and my other grandpa alllways tries to teach me how to bake or make bao (he worked at a reallllly popular chinese bakery during its hey-day in sacramento) and my grandma is always cooking and teaching me northern chinese food since the rest of our family is from the south or hong kong.

best of the best? tomato and egg (always add sugar and ketchup), red bean steamed baos and steamed chicken baos (should totally be eaten fresh from the steamer) and chinese dessert soups (nom nom nom)

@redfish it does do a lot of good if you're in berkeley....

you're expensive, and my college budget doesn't like it

i go to nugget instead or berkeley bowl.

eat with rice or eat with congee, or just eat it as a snack, i used to do that as a kid.

well just to share,

1. being in college, we dont necessarily have the greatest income to be dining out like that.

2. I like to cook, he likes to eat what i cook

3. theres too many people out on valentines day, and its way too expensive

its ust nicer to be cozy-ing up with your man, watching south park, and drinking apple cider straight from the big ol' bottle... we don't like to wash dishes either...