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Cooking Cuban

January 6, 2013 by 510foodie No Comments
My trip last month to Southern California brought me back to my favorite Cuban restaurant in Los Angeles. Versailles is no frills, just good flavor and inexpensive prices. Their pork and chicken is cooked in a delicious lemon garlic sauce. This sauce is so good that they even bottle it. I decided to buy a...
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South Bay Eats

2012: The Year of the Ban

December 30, 2012 by 510foodie No Comments
On July 1, 2012, California banned foi gras. Beginning January 1, 2013, shark fin will be illegal in the State. The practice of shark finning, cutting off a shark’s fin at sea and then tossing it back into the water to bleed to death, has been illegal in the US but the import has not....
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Sushi in San Diego

December 23, 2012 by 510foodie No Comments
I was in San Diego last week and realized that it has been twenty years since I moved down there for graduate school. How time flies and how things have changed. Twenty years ago I didn’t eat sushi. Back then, I even had a part-time job as a waitress at a restaurant called Sushi-Ya. As...
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Southern California Eats

Din Tai Fung: An International Phenomenon

December 16, 2012 by 510foodie No Comments
I am currently on vacation in Southern California and on an eating frenzy. Having lived in Southern California for eight years, I am returning to many places that I miss, but also having some new dining experiences. Din Tai Fung is an international phenomenon specializing in xiao lung bao. They have restaurants all over the...
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Move over Pho, Make Room for Bun Bo Hue

December 9, 2012 by 510foodie No Comments
I was only recently introduced to Bun Bo Hue which is a flavorful spicy Vietnamese noodle soup. It was a cold day and my coworker was craving Bun Bo Hue (at the time I didn’t even know the name of the soup). I was open to trying it so halfway through our walk, we called...
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East Bay Eats

East Bay Bagels

December 2, 2012 by 510foodie No Comments
It has been difficult to find a good bagel in the Bay Area until recently. In the last few months, two great bagel shops have popped up in Oakland. Old Brooklyn Bagels & Deli on College Avenue in Rockridge serves bagels that taste much like a New York bagel. They boil and then bake their...
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Wood Tavern: Rockridge’s Best

November 25, 2012 by 510foodie No Comments
More than five years ago, restauranteurs Rebekkah and Rich Wood opened up their first Oakland restaurant, Wood Tavern. They were one of the first restaurant owners to successfully transplant a San Francisco restaurant across the Bay to Oakland. Many restauranteurs have followed suit in the past few years making Oakland a destination place to eat....
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San Francisco Eats

Prospect: Chez Chic

November 18, 2012 by 510foodie No Comments
I envy the residents that live in the Infiniti Towers in San Francisco. Why so? The gorgeous condominium is close to the Bay, walking distance to the Ferry Building and AT&T Park, and has a chic restaurant offering fine food. I finally had the opportunity to dine at Prospect recently. Prospect is the sister restaurant...
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2012 Omnivore World Tour: San Francisco

November 11, 2012 by 510foodie No Comments
Omnivore World Tour, a new food festival featuring young chefs was held at the Presidio in San Francisco this past weekend. It started on Friday where the under thirty chefs cooked at some renowned Bay Area restaurants. The weekend of events also entailed various cooking and wine classes including a workshop for kids. Last night,...
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East Bay Eats

Celebrating Dia de los Muertos

November 4, 2012 by 510foodie No Comments
Dia de los Muertos aka Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday that is celebrated November 1 and 2. It is a time to celebrate those loved ones who have passed away. I was invited to celebrate Dia de los Muertos on Friday evening at Cosecha located in the Housewives Market in Old Oakland....
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Hello, my name is Lisa Lau.  Welcome to my new website 510foodie.com.  I was born and raised in the Bay Area. I am passionate about food and am here to share my food adventures with you.

I’ve been blogging about food for almost ten years.  I am a contributing writer for localwise.com where my blog post Top Five Bowls of Noodle Soup in Oakland went viral.  In 2018, I was a guest writer for Berkeleyside where I wrote the featured article  A Filipino Food Movement is Sweeping the East Bay.

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