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Alameda’s Pacific Lighthouse for Dim Sum

January 8, 2017 by 510foodie No Comments
This is my first post for 2017 and I thought I would share the New Year’s resolutions I made for myself.  The first one is to purge and organize. The second one is to try some new sports for exercise. And my third New Year’s resolution is to eat more dim sum. I took my...
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La Estacion: Awesome First Meal in Puerto Rico

December 18, 2016 by 510foodie No Comments
I’m trying to end 2016 with a bang. My friend and I decided that we both needed some fun and relaxation so we planned a trip to warm Puerto Rico. This would be my second time to Puerto Rico, but it’s been almost a decade since my last visit. I have never been to Fajardo,...
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East Bay Eats

Teni East Kitchen: Fresh California Burmese

December 11, 2016 by 510foodie No Comments
Teni East Kitchen is a newish Burmese restaurant located in North Oakland that opened this past May.  With a focus on Burmese, it has a California twist.  I had my first lunch here in October and went back for dinner in November. It can be fun to be one of the first to discover a...
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Southern California Eats

My birthday in Los Angeles

December 4, 2016 by 510foodie No Comments
I feel a little behind in blogging, partly because I skipped last week and partly because I wanted to share some of the things I ate on my birthday, which was exactly a month ago today. My best friend and I spent my birthday in Los Angeles and aside from traffic, it was perfect.We started...
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East Bay Eats

What I Ate Before and After the Berkeley Half

November 20, 2016 by 510foodie No Comments
Today was the Berkeley Half Marathon and my second half marathon this year, actually it’s my second half marathon ever. It was pretty brutal because it rained. I was getting really soaked by mile 10 and could feel my feet getting soggy. I persevered and actually made a personal record shaving off six minutes from...
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San Francisco Eats

Petit Crenn: One for the Books

November 13, 2016 by 510foodie No Comments
Women and girls all over the Country were disappointed this week that the highest and hardest glass ceiling did not break. In the restaurant industry, women are continuing to fight this battle. Just a few weeks ago, Michelin Stars were announced and some observations were made that Atelier Crenn, Dominique Crenn’s fine dining restaurant in...
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East Bay Eats

An Evening with the People’s Kitchen Collective

October 30, 2016 by 510foodie No Comments
Last weekend, Chef Marcus Samuelsson was promoting his new cookbook The Red Rooster Cookbook and participated in events around the Bay Area. On one evening, he collaborated with the People’s Kitchen Collective to provide an unforgettable dining experience. “This is a meal from Harlem to Oakland. Of Red Roosters and Black Panthers. This is a...
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San Francisco Eats

How I Got to Cook with Chef Marcus Samuelsson

October 23, 2016 by 510foodie No Comments
Chef Marcus Samuelsson just released his new cookbook The Red Rooster Cookbook, named after his restaurant in Harlem. With this release began his cookbook tour with the first stop in the Bay Area. I signed up to get tickets to his cooking demonstration held at Macy’s in Union Square in San Francisco. The department store...
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East Bay Eats

Double Belly is Double Trouble

October 16, 2016 by 510foodie No Comments
First came Belly and then came Sweet Belly. In Uptown Oakland, you can find this pair of playful eateries to fill your belly. Belly is located at the corner of San Pablo Avenue and 19th Street and serves up what I consider a fusion grill. There is a focus on Mexican, Korean, and Japanese cuisine....
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East Bay Eats

What I ate after the East Bay 510K

October 9, 2016 by 510foodie No Comments
photo by @cwpiequeen It was a perfect October morning in Berkeley to run the East Bay 510K. This morning, about 2,000 runners started at the Northeast end of McLaughlin Eastshore State Park in Berkeley to either run a 5K or 10K. 5K runners began at 7:35am while 10K runners began at 8:05am. I ran the...
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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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