culinary sextet
...being: a travelogue of recent experiences with food, from the mundane to the faraway.
(1) Late nights, my walking route usually takes me past the Boudin Bakery at Fisherman's Wharf, where the bakers are baking their breads for the next day:
(2) Also usually later in the evening, walking home from dinner or a constitutional, I sometimes bop into the Hot Topic cookie store on Polk, for a sweet "Harvey Milk" (a caramel toffee delight):
(3) On weekends, my walks often take me past either the Arsicault at Civic Center (pictured here) or the one in the Inner Richmond; usually for a kouign amann, or a simple croissant:
(4) Earlier this week, I finally dropped into Sofiya, a Tajik and Uzbek restaurant on Sutter and Larkin, in the outer Tenderloin, to have their legendary plov (pilaf), which I'd never had before:
(5) Cordon Bleu on California near Polk is a local legend, decades old, revered, and still the hole-in-the-wall Vietnamese grilled 5-spice chicken place it has been lo these many years:
(6) The full name of Bangkok (Krung Thep...) is emblazoned on one entire wall at House of Thai in the Tenderloin, on Geary and Larkin. To my left, off-frame, a statuette of Rama V (King Chulalongkorn):
