Taro Bubble Tea from Little Garden

When I was recently visiting New Hampshire, I had a taro bubble tea for the first time in ages.  I forgot how much I loved them!  Since returning to SF, I've been on a quest to find a good one. This time I headed to Little Garden, in Chinatown.  It was pretty legit, with the menu in Chinese, and I was the only non-Asian in the entire place.  I ordered it online through my phone, intending to just run in and grab it and go, but it wasn't ready yet...

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Travelin' Tuesdays: Boston and New Hampshire!

As you may have noticed by now, this blog follows a format: Monday: Reviews of chain restaurants, catering, or food trucks. Tuesday: Taco Tuesday, or other special Tuesday series. Wednesday: Full service restaurant reviews. Thursday: Reviews of bakeries or ice cream shops. Friday: Packaged snack foods or drinks. Saturday: Day off! Sunday: Chocolate, or other candy. When I review restaurants, they are almost entirely located in the San Francisco Bay Area, since that is where I live, and I assume most of my friends who read...

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Comfort Foods from Munchery

You've heard me rave about a local meal delivery service, Munchery, before, so I'll spare you the overall details again.  Check out my other Munchery reviews for the background. Munchery just continues to improve!  A few things have changed since I last used Munchery.  The first is the packaging, not only does it look better, but the trays are compostable, microwaveable, and oven safe now.  And everything is made with recycled materials.  The...

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Milka Chocolate

A few months ago, a friend returned from her travels with chocolate from Studentská to share.  I thought it was quite fun to try chocolate I couldn't otherwise get here in the US.  Well, she went traveling again, and of course brought back chocolate to share!  I'm liking this trend of friends traveling and always returning with chocolates for me to try :) This time she came back with chocolate from Milka, distributed throughout Europe.  I...

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