Wednesday, February 06, 2013

M.Y. China

If you follow the San Francisco restaurant scene at all, you've undoubtedly heard about M.Y. China, a fairly new Chinese restaurant by James Beard Winning celebrity chef Martin Yan (of Yan Can Cook fame ... back long before cooking shows were popular).  And you know that he brought in a master noodle maker from China, who has won a slew of gold medals and holds records for things like hand pulling 16,000 noodles in two minutes.  And the dim sum all comes...
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Sunday, February 03, 2013

Galler Chocolate

Galler is a Belgian Chocolatier, making chocolates since the 1970s.  I recently got to try a slew of their mini bars.  The milk chocolate line wasn't that great, but I did like some of the dark chocolates.  Overall though, I just wasn't a fan of their mostly praline-based fillings. Café Liégeois: "Dark chocolate with mild coffee filling".  Tasting notes: The dark chocolate was ok, with a nice snap to it.  The filling was gritty, and not...
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