RICE PAPER SCISSORS

Join us for Vietnamese brunch! 

• When: Sunday, April 21st / 11am-4:30pm

• Where: Dear Mom - 2700 16th Street @ Harrison

• Service: A-la-carte brunch + full bar

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Starters

Ham Sui Gok - 8

fried mochi dumplings filled with pork and shiitake mushrooms 

Numbing Sichuan Noodles (vg) (g) - 6

wide cellophane noodles in housemade Sichuan peppercorn oil, served with spring asparagus, fried peanuts and cilantro.

(+) Add cold sliced Five-spice Braised Beef Shank - 3

Pâté Chaud - 6

puff pastry filled with ground chicken, pate, and wood ear mushrooms

(+) Add a fried egg - 1

Mushroom Pâté Chaud - 6

puff pastry filled with ground chicken, pate, and wood ear mushrooms

(+) Add a fried egg - 1

Soup

Pho Ga - Chicken Pho - 12

fresh rice noodles in ginger chicken broth, served with poached chicken, shaved onions, culantro, scallions and lime leaves

Vegetarian Rice Porridge (v) (vg) - 11

spring vegetables, salted quail eggs, Chinese donut, marinated tofu, preserved mustard greens and cilantro

Banh Mi

Breakfast Banh Mi - 9

two fried eggs and cha lua (Vietnamese ham) with housemade pate, mayo, daikon pickles, cucumbers and cilantro

Vegetarian Breakfast Banh Mi (v) - 9

two fried eggs with housemade mayo, daikon pickles, cucumbers and cilantro

Vegan “Smoked Duck” Banh Mi (vg) - 9

Dessert & Drinks

Vietnamese Yogurt with Local Kiwi - 5

housemade yogurt made with a hint of condensed milk

Vietnamese Iced Coffee - 3

slow dripped Trung Nguyen coffee with condensed milk

Suan Mei Tang Sparkler - 3

smoked plum and hawthorne tea with ginger ale and aloe

Prices include sales tax

(v) vegetarian (vg) vegan (g) gluten-free

Ham Sui Gok (pronounced HUM-SOY-GOK) is a dim sum dish we put on our menu during the Lunar New Year and haven’t taken off!

Katie discovered them on her trip to Hong Kong last year and fell in love with the fried mochi dumping. The outside layer is a subtly sweet crispy and chewy mochi. Inside you’ll find a savory pork and shittake mushroom filling.

Come try them at our Thursday pop-up at Mojo Bicycle Cafe or at our Dear Mom pop-up on Sunday.

Our Lucky Mission Festival in February came to be because we wanted to celebrate the Lunar New Year with the traditions we enjoyed growing up — but with more booze and dancing.

Usually, the Vietnamese/Chinese New Year is celebrated in the family home, with meals and red envelopes filled with money (not bad things, at all!).

However, we wanted to reimagine it and make it a holiday that more people can get into. After all, it’s about food, family and friends — and we can all use more of that in our lives.

The result: a month of pop-ups and partying!

We kicked things off with the Good Luck Biagarten, an indoor beer garden reminiscent of casual drinking spots in Vietnam. You could buy beers by-the-bucket OR the bottle.

The Potsticker Party was a casual cooking class we threw to teach people a new craft. People made Pork and Squash potstickers over beers and got to enjoy the fruits of their labor in Good Eggs HQ in the Mission.

To get people raging for the Lunar New Year, we hosted the Lion Dance Party at the Verdi Club. Lion dancers from the Chung Ngai Dance Troupe broke it down to “Sexy and I Know It” — combining the old the new. DJ Spinnerty spun classic party jams (everything from Robyn to Christina Aguilera) while 12FPS held it down on the photobooth.

(Best Chinese lion dance photobomb ever.)

We hope you’ll join us for next year’s Lucky Mission Festival!

Photos (top to bottom): Pete Lee, Akia Graybill, 12FPS

We picked up kabocha squash from Thanh Ho Farms, one of our favorite vendors at the Heart of the City Farmers Market. During the winter, they introduced us to kabocha squash.

Kabocha can be found year-round offers a super sweet taste. Vung Ho and his mom (the proprietors) told us how they enjoy making a Kabocha and Sparerib soup. We followed suit for a staff meal and liked it so much we put it on our Mojo menu for a few weeks.

To make the savory, buttery soup, we started out with a chicken stock made from a whole chicken. We blanched the spareribs, rinsed them and added them to the stock, and let it boil for two hours.

Afterwards, we threw in sliced kabocha and simmered until it became tender. To top it off, we added culantro and Thai chiles.

The soup can get nice and thick as it reduces in the pot, and of course, pairs perfectly with a side of rice.

A Side of Rice was a column we started as guest writers on the Good Eggs blog where we documented Asian produce and purveyors from the Heart of the City Farmers Market.

Inspired by farmers’ recipes and stories, we would make staff meals using their ingredients, in the way the they would. Many of these dishes found its way onto our menus.

Check back here for occasional dispatches from the market. You can find previous articles here.

Come join us.

Breakfast at Mojo Bicycle Cafe

Scenes from our interview with Warby Parker, where we munched on Pho Ga (Chicken Pho) and Mushroom Pate Chaud while we talked about our early pop-up days and how we got to call Mojo our home.

See more photos and read the interview here.

Words by Taylor Bennett, photos by Collin Hughes.

Lunar New Year Tradition #3: Candy!

What’s a holiday without candy?!

On a particularly warm MuuMuu Wednesday, we were shared this tray with our pals at 12FPS and Amos.  We drank Vietnamese coffee, ate banh chung, and got together over these sweet treats. 

We’re throwing the Lion Dance Party, our first-ever dance party, on Friday, February 22nd to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

It’ll be everything you know and love about Vietnamese/Chinese New Year, but with lots more booze, street food and Harlem Shake.

Here’s a taste:

Come do the Harlem (Lion) Shake with us this Friday. Deets below.

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Where: Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street 

When: Friday, February 22, 8pm-1am. Doors and dinner at 8pm. Music at 9pm.

Tickets: 21+ / $10 (advance), $15 (door) / purchase here

Full bar + Vietnamese street food by yours truly

Classic party jams by DJ Spinnerty

Lion dance performance by Chung Ngai Dance Troupe

Lunar New Year Tradition #2: Paying Respects to Ancestors

We’re not joshing when it comes to joss paper (aka ghost money), a common tradition in both Chinese and Vietnamese cultures. Joss papers are offerings that can take the form of patterned tissue papers or cardboard replicas of material objects. The joss paper is burned to ensure that ancestors and the deceased will be well kept in the afterlife.

As our team made a trip down to Chinatown to shop for decorations for the Lucky Mission Festival, we were impressed by the array of joss papers from fake dollar bills to iPads.

But Louis Vuitton bags? Well, if your grandma was a bonafide diva like mine, then the answer is yes and with shoes to match.

In the spirit the Lunar New Year, we bought (and burnt) some offerings for our ancestors. It was a cool experience to take a minute and think about the ancestors we never met, but are responsible for where we are today. May they be wealthy, healthy and well-dressed in the afterlife.

— Emily, RPS intern

Photos by Taylor Hoff

Where: Good Eggs, 530 Hampshire, #301

When: Sunday, February 17th, 4-7pm

Tickets: $40 / purchase here

As part of our Lunar New Year celebrations, we’ll be the honoring the craft god by hosting a Potsticker Party. What better craft to focus on than that of food?

Come to the Posticker Party at Good Eggs’ beautiful loft offices in the Mission, where you will:

- Learn to roll and fold two types of dumplings: (1) Pork and Leek and (2) Vegetarian kabocha and celery root

- Snack on Xoi Gac, red coconut sticky rice

- Drink Tiger beer and jasmine tea with candied kumquats

- Feast on your dumplings, boiled and fried

- Slurp down black sesame and mochi dumplings in jasmine ginger syrup

- Take away leftover dumplings and recipes cards so you can re-create the magic at home

Come join us for this age old tradition as we have re-imagined it!  Get tickets here!