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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

Come join us.

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

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!

We’re celebrating the Year of the Snake by throwing the Lucky Mission Festival, a month-long series of events that reinterpret, reimagine and reintroduce the traditions and foods of the Lunar New Year.

Meanwhile, adding more booze and dance music along the way!

We’re kicking things off with the Good Luck Biagarten, a pop-up beer garden and mess hall this Saturday, February 9th.

Also on the list: a family-style dinner, potsticker class and a pop dance party complete with Chinese lion dancers. More details below.

May this year bring you good health, wealth and pop-ups,

Valerie, Katie, Akia, Emily and Zoë

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Good Luck Biagarten
Vietnamese beer garden and mess hall

Where: Saturday, February 9, 2013
When: 6-10pm
Location: Florida Street Cafe, 710 Florida Street

Bia = beer in Vietnamese.

To kick off the Lunar New Year celebrations, we’re throwing a mess-hall slash indoor biagarten inspired by Vietnam streetside bars. On the menu: dishes that will bring you good luck in the new year. More here.

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Tết Holiday Banquet
prix fixe Asian family-style meal

Canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.

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Potsticker Party
Potsticker making class, complete with snacks, beer and tea

Where: Good Eggs, 530 Hampshire, #301
When: Sunday, February 17th, 4-7pm
Tickets: $40 / purchase here

Get down on this age old tradition: a potsticker making party.  Learn how to roll and fold two types of dumplings (pork and squash) while snacking on Vietnamese sticky rice and beer. You’ll leave with new skills, extra potstickers and hopefully some new friends.

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Lion Dance Party
classic party jams and Chinese lion dancers

Where: Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street 
When: Friday, February 22, 8pm-1am. Doors and dinner at 8pm. Music at 9pm.
Tickets: $10 (advance), $15 (door) / 21+ / purchase here

Rage like it’s the Year of the Snake. Also, get down on classic party jams spun by DJ Spinnerty of Grown Kids Radio as well as Vietnamese street food, a full bar and Chinese lion dancers.

Date: Saturday, February 9, 2013
Time: 6-10pm
Location: Florida Street Cafe, 710 Florida Street

To kick off the Lunar New Year celebrations, we’re throwing a mess-hall slash indoor beer garden inspired by Vietnam streetside bars. (Bia = beer in Vietnamese.)

The menu consists of items that bring good luck in the new year — such as Ham Sui Gok, fried mochi dumplings stuffed with pork and shrimp, and Vietnamese Imperial Rolls. Since they look like ancient money, they’re eaten to bring in more bucks.

Our beer list will contain our favorite local and imported brews. A-la Vietnam, we’re offering beers by-the-bucket so you don’t even have to get off your little red stools to get another cold one. Boom.

Menu

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

Appetizers

Taro Chips (v) - $5

Cha Gio - Imperial Rolls (g)- $7
fried rice paper rolls with shrimp, pork, cabbage and taro. served with lettuce, herbs and nuoc cham.
Long in shape, these rolls are like gold bars. Wealth in the new year!

Ham Sui Gok - Fried Mochi Dumplings - $8 
filled with ground pork and shrimp
Since they look like ancient Chinese money, you eat them for wealth in the new year.

Banh Chung - Tet Sticky Rice Cake - $6
sticky rice with ground pork and mung beans, steamed in banana leaves
The filling resembles the different layers of the earth - a humble representation of the earth we live in.

Mains

Buddha’s Delight (vg) - $8
cellophane noodle stir-fry with tofu, shitakke mushrooms, woodear mushrooms, lily buds and roasted ginko nuts
A vegetarian meal is often eaten to counterbalance to the richness of the new year festivities.

Pho Ga - Chicken Pho - $12
fresh rice noodles in housemade chicken broth, served with poached chicken. served with shaved onions, scallions, jalapenos, culantro and limes.
The broth is made from whole chickens, giving rise to prosperity, family, and joy. Fresh rice noodles symbolize long life!

Thit Heo Kho - Caramelized Pork and Egg Rice Plate - $11
spareribs braised in star anise, coconut water and fish sauce, served with a soft egg and broken rice
This classic Vietnamese New Year dish, represents family with whole eggs, symbols of life and fertility.

Saturday, January 26th

7pm

Gung Ho Restaurant - 680 8th Street (at Townsend)

$65 / Tickets here

Crab season ain’t over yet — and we’re not letting it pass without doing it up Cajun-style (and just in time for Mardi Gras!)

Our next installment of Dungeness Crab House is inspired by Vietnamese Cajun seafood restaurants, popular in San Jose and Garden Grove in Southern California — cities with large Vietnamese populations.

Seems random, but like every fusion of cultures, there’s a backstory. After immigrating to the States, many Vietnamese families settled in the Gulf Coast, where “boiling points” or crawfish houses reign supreme.

Like any good New Orleanian, the Vietnamese also have an affinity for rice, spice, and seafood. Inspired by Creole cuisine, Viet-Cajun joints came to be — with an added Southeast twist of lemongrass, muoi tieu chanh (a lemon, salt, and pepper dip) and garlic noodles to go along with boiled crustaceans bathed in butter.

These restaurants are known in Vietnamese as “quan nhau” — basically, a restaurant where you can get crunked.

So in true Vietnamese and Louisianan spirit, come dine and be sure to leave the table with empty crab shells and beer bottles — always a sign of a good time.

Tickets are $65 and can be purchased here.

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Menu

Crawfish Étouffée Bouchée

thick crawfish and sea snail gravy served in a puff pastry

Louisiana Shrimp, Pork and Pomelo Salad

with cucumbers, mint, and fried shallots

Southeast Cajun Crab

1/2 Dungeness crab and corn simmered in lemongrass and Old Bay Seasoning. served with a trio of sauces: tamarind, garlic butter, and salt-pepper-lime.

Garlic Noodles

housemade oyster sauce, butter, garlic and topped with Grana Padano cheese

Grilled Okra

with a housemade XO sauce

Bananas Foster & Beignets

rum bananas, fried beignets and fish sauce ice cream

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More details and tickets here

We started 2013 with a New Year’s Day Brunch a new pop-up location: Whiz Burgers, located on 18th and Van Ness.

For a while this location intrigued us. We weren’t sure who owned it or how to approach them to do a pop-up. Our curiosity pushed us to ask anyway.

We met John Kim, whose father owns Whiz Burger, one day at the take-out window. John told us that Whiz Burgers has been around since 1955. Twenty years ago, his father owned a liquor store on 14th and saw that Whiz Burgers was for sale — so he bought it. It’s been run by the Kim’s ever since.

Since Whiz Burgers was closed for New Year’s, the Kim’s allowed us to pop-up in the space for our brunch. “I wanted to support another small business,” John said.

Thanks to the Kim’s for letting us pop-up and everyone who came out to start 2013 with us!

And don’t forget to get a fresh banana shake and seasoned fries from the Whiz sometime this year :)

Photos by Andria Lo
See full set here
More photos from Doc Pop here

This year, we were lucky enough to have our New Year’s Day Brunch photographed by Doctor Popular.

He’s a fellow Mission District dweller who does everything from DJing to building LEGO dioramas.

While hanging out with us, he got behind-the-scene shots inside the Whiz Burgers.

Using his Minolta SLR and rolls of expired Konica film, he captured the vibes of the iconic burger joint.

See more photos on Doctor Popular’s website here.

New Year’s Day Brunch
Date: Tuesday, January 1st 
Time: 11am-5pm
Location: Whiz Burgers - 700 South Van Ness Avenue (at 18th)
Eat in / grab & go

We’re popping up for our annual New Year’s Day Brunch at Whiz Burgers, the iconic burger joint on the corner of 18th and South Van Ness avenue.

On the menu: fried egg banh mi’s and pho and Vietnamese coffee and everything else to make life feel alright (and maybe even awesome.)

Excited to start the new year with y’all.

Valerie + Katie + Zoe

Menu

Apps

Pâté Chaud - 5 
puff pastry filled with ground chicken, pate, and wood ear mushrooms

Salt-and-Pepper Tofu - 5
Crispy fried tofu, served with wok-fired shallots, green onions and jalapenos

Mains

Breakfast Banh Mi - 9
Two fried eggs and cha lua (Vietnamese ham) with housemade pate, mayo, daikon pickles, cucumbers and cilantro

Adds-ons: + $2 housemade bacon

Vegan Banh Mi

Soy-based “duck” with Vegannaise, housemade daikon pickles, cucumbers and cilantro

Hanoi-Style Beef Pho - 12
fresh rice noodles in a housemade beef broth with hanger steak and stewed beef shank. served with shaved onions, cilantro, scallions, and limes.

Dessert

Vietnamese Yogurt w/ Grapefruit Marmalade - 5
housemade yogurt sweetened with condensed milk and topped with grapefruit marmalade and candied kumquats

Drinks

Vietnamese Iced Coffee - 3
slow dripped Trung Nguyen Coffee with sweetened condensed milk over ice

Invite your friends here.

See photos from last year’s inaugural New Year’s Day Brunch.