Last weekend Phil was in the Bay Area, and Mimi and I met with Phil and his friend and noob bunchkin, Nick (lickno) at Milpitas. We had thai food where Mimi and I felt like we tagged along on a loving date between Phil and friend. Ha. Afterwards we grabbed some bubble tea at Quickly’s.
Test shot of Phil!
Me, Phil, and Mimi.
Me, Nick, and Mimi.
When I got back home from Taiwan in the summer of 2004, there was one thing that I missed so much that it actually haunted my mind: oyster pancake (蚵仔煎 “oh wa jian”). It’s one of those love it or hate it type of food – the flavor is great but the texture is bizarre, and by bizarre I mean mushy.
I searched all over San Francisco for it. It was already hard enough finding a Taiwanese restaurant in SF, so finding the oyster pancake was even harder.
Alas, I found several restaurants that had it but it just wasn’t the same. It was either too hard or too mushy or too saucy or didn’t have enough sauce. Three years later, this weekend, I decided to drive all the way to Milpitas Square to try Ay-Chung’s oyster pancake. I found it through Yelp, and may I say, it’s the best I’ve had so far in the Bay Area.
