A few things

 It's been a busy weekend filled with packing and moving. But somehow I found a few minutes to get into some pretty sweet adventures. First, there's a new screen print supply shop here in S.F. called Anthem and I have to say, it make my life a lot easier when I have to make a quick supply run. Then in between errands we managed to stop by the SF Street Food Fest which was over in the Mission. It was amazing to see this completely underground trend in dining come full circle as an organized and sponsored event. Of course with notoriety comes - lines, long winding lines for food. That's totally understandable though as there are some very good carts out there executing some great food. One of my favs was there, Kung Fu Tacos, and I really wanted to have Steph try it out but their line was uber long and we were pressed for time. We settled for a falafel, It was good enough, but I had some complaints. The Meyer lemon mayo would have been good on almost anything else, just not this. It tasted a bit too much like custard. Also, I have a thing about sandwiches, if they fall apart I automatically hate it. There was so much mayo that it started to drip onto my pants. That's a huge sandwich FAIL and a no-no in my book. As we were going home we happened upon an amazing foodie find in the form of an Irish Bakery and I have to say it was epic. Honestly I don't know much about Irish banked goods beyond soda bread, but this place had so much to offer. I bought this crazy cinnamon thing, that was uber doughy and chewy just the way I like things like that to be. Next we bought some shepherds pie, a sausage roll and a Cornish pastie.  The Sausage roll was my favorite. Then for breakfast the next day I bought possible the most epic baked goods ever - Breakfast in Bread! It consisted of a large chunk of soda bread and was infused with bangers, white and black pudding, cheese and eggs. It was so filling it took me two days to finish. It had a decidedly sage-y taste and I do enjoy sage quite a bit. On the way back from the bakery we happened upon the Chairman Bao truck and I insisted we stop. I ordered a pork belly and pickled daikon bao and Steph got a fried tofu and miso greens bao. I didn't try Stephs, but it looked super good. She commented that the tofu might not have been fried long enough. My bao was ok and I really liked the flavor profile but it was a very large piece of belly and I tend to like pro belly with a big of texture to it as this was a bit too soft for me. It could have used a nice re-firing on a hot griddle to crisp it up a bit. As for the pickles, they were good, but I make better. Sadly in our rush to get things done neither of us bothered to take any pictures as we're normally wont to do. Just think of it as a vintage blog post. In the Victorian era, blog posts were never accompanied by photos. It just wasn't done in polite society.

The Big Debut

For Steph's B-day we had ourselves a wee bit of BBQ. I can say with the utmost modesty that I worked that fuck out of that grill! There was not an empty plate to be seen. With such a BBQ feeding frenzy going down I thought it might be the perfect time to give peeps a sneak peek of what's to come when my boys and I drop our sweet food cart like a bomb all over San Francisco. We plan on launching a food cart called Belly-full and our claim to fame is going to be the pork belly slider. How can you not love this idea? Anyway, our initial public offering will be three different varieties of slider but I just wanted to focus on one for the BBQ. I call this one the "Dear Leader" and it's sort of a bastardized Banh Mi using Korean ingredients. I marinated the pork in salt, sugar, kochujang, fish sauce, salt, Szechuan pepper, sugar, vinegar, and some other stuff, then I made some delicious quick pickles.......... Ah, I don't want to give it all away but I've created a little diagram that may better explain my process. Needless to say we proved we can pull this off and produce a delicious slider. Shiiiiiitttt son!!!!

The new phonebook's here! The new Phonebook is here!

Navin R. Johnson. Sounds like a typical bastard!

Ok, that has nothing to do with the post at all. I just felt like quoting from one of my favorite movies, The Jerk. But seriously, you need to peep the new promo trailer for breakthruradio.com It's the radio station that hosts my Japanese music show. I'm DJ Hanabi BTW! Peep away!

Relaunch of Breakthruradio.com

As I've stated before I have a show on breakthruradio.com with my buddy John. We do a bi-weekly Japanese radio show. It's fun times and we get to act like self righteous elitist bastards. Seriously, it's good fun. We're known as DJ Hanabi and you should check us out. Anyway, the site is relaunching soon and ditching it's current Flash heavy layout with a more smooth and sleek look. Here's a trailer for the relaunch. Peep it!

Comic Con Nerds

This weekend Steph and I are taking an inter-California stay- cation. We're mixing up a little Comic-con in San Diego with a bit of Disneyland in L.A. On Thursday night we intended to leave S.F. at around 7 and that slowly morphed into 10:30. That was very depressing for me because it meant that I missed an opportunity for a late night Ruben at Canter's Deli in L.A. On Friday we made a rather large error in leaving for San Diego at 5 during rush hour. It took is about 3 hours to make it to Long Beach from Hollywood. It fucking sucked! Meh, that was just a drop in the bucket compared with the room we had waiting for us in S.D. But, let me preface that by saying I am in no way a cheap person. I will throw money at quality items without a second thought but I do love searching out a deal and love it even more if that deal flies in the face of convention. Before we even got on board with this little adventure we were advised that all the hotels basically double their prices. I really just couldn't accept that I wouldn't be able to find a deal on a room. Fuck you I said. I will totally find a cheap room and not only will it be cheap it will be close to the convention center. That's when I found the Travel lodge. At least that's what it was called by Google. At least you know what to expect with a travel lodge. This was anything but expected. The name had changed and is now known as the Downtown Lodge. Not a good portent of things to come. If I were the head of the ministry of naming names I would probably give the downtown lodge a working title of "just a block or two from downtown ass lodge" it's probably the grimiest place I've ever stayed. There were random hairs in one of the beds an the shower. Cigarette burns on the sheets. Now I did get a deal on the place. I paid $70 a night which is pretty awesome. But the deal of the century was pretty much lost on Steph upon first inspection of the towels which can only be described as being "a little bit moist." as to Comic Con itself it lived up to it's billing and ended up being super nerdy and crowded and full of half naked girls dressed as princess leia (the return of the Jedi outfit). I bought some prints from Tara McPherson which will look epic in my new room in the house. My overall impression of Comic Con is positive. I'm not really into much of what Comic Con is about but the people watching is amazing and I think I was a bit too preoccupied with that to take any seriously good pics. I took some black and white of the tron booth (can't wait for that) and I'll see what happens when I get that roll developed. I really want to do a live printing booth at Cimic Con. I'll see what can be done to make that happen. Today is Sunday and we're back in L.A. For some D-Land and hopefully some Canter's deli later as


I am craving a Ruben.
Wherever you go, there you are

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Steph doesn't take shit from old paint. No way, never.


Wherever you go, there you are

Spice Odyssey: Exploring the Burning Tongues of Saturn.: Killing you with spice!

Spice Odyssey: Exploring the Burning Tongues of Saturn.: Killing you with spice!