I brought my Dear Friend to the Bike Shed Motorcycle Club in LA this past weekend. He had never been to BSMC, but has been a motorcycle enthusiast since he bought my Vespa P200E in our college days. If only BSMC were around during those days, what fun we would have had...
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| Bike Shed Motorcycle Club, LA, 3/2025 |
Oakland Restaurant Week is almost here. The staff at Sobo Ramen are busy preparing one of their signature dishes for the event: squid ink ramen. Yummy, we can't wait to try it.
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| Sobo Ramen, getting ready for Oakland Restaurant Week, 3/2025 |
Not a cafe, but you can almost hear Hemingway and Gertrude Stein chatting in the background...
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| Novela, San Francisco 3/2025 |
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Peruvian cuisine, ceviche, and a giant squid guarding the bar. You can't ask for more...
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| La Mar, San Francisco, 3/2025 |
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When I used to work in downtown Oakland, I frequented Chef Dominica's former establishment Cosecha in Swan's Market. The green mole and tacos there were fantastic. Unfortunately, the pandemic put an end to Cosecha and I feared we would not be able to enjoy her great food anymore. Luckily, I found out that she opened a new restaurant, Bombera in Oakland, and it is just as good as Cosecha, if not better.
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| Bombera, Oakland 3/2025 |
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In celebration of small businesses today, kudos to FOB Kitchen for bringing a taste of Filipino flavors to Oakland CA.
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| FOB Kitchen, Oakland, CA 2/2025 |
I'm working on a new series of works inspired by my last visit to Tahiti, French Polynesia. The first of this series is a painting of my cousin-in-law's house in Teahupoo, where the 2024 Olympics surfing competition was held. It was very kind of cousin Kim and Madeleine to let us stay.
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| Yao Residence, Teahupoo, Tahiti, 2/2025 |
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| Yao Residence painting in progress |
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