Bi-Rite Creamery

When I first moved to San Francisco, Bi-Rite was well on my radar.  It was *the* place to get ice cream, perhaps because it was at peak trendiness right then, perhaps because it was located next to Dolores Park, where my hipser-ish friends liked to spend time, perhaps because it always had ridiculous lines, even on cold days, and, well, San Franciscans like standing in line for things.I'm an ice cream girl through and through, but I don't remember ever really...

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Jimmy's Recipe, Sydney

Jimmy's Recipe is a Malaysian restaurant chain in Sydney, known primarily for the laksa.I have a very, very distant memory of the first time I was in Sydney, I think the first day, and stumbling into a mall food court where a colleague had told me to get laksa.  I don't think I even knew what laksa was, and I don't remember much else, except that I did it, and I found it very flavorful.  This was years and years ago now, and when I was in Singapore in 2020...

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