Mission Mission

Yeah, we’re a little late to the game, but damn… I think this is the best $8 I have spent on food in recent memory. The newly established Mission Chinese Food’s invention, the Peking Duck Chinito (also comes in Vegan!) is really, really great.

It’s duck confit, crispy skin, cucumber, cilantro, and spicy hoisin sauce. All of this is stuffed in a “chinese donut”, wrapped in rice noodle, then chopped sushi-style. What’s a chinese donut, you ask? I wasn’t sure either but once I saw it, I recognized it as the puffed, oily, bread stick that I would dip in rice porridge or warm soy milk as a kiddo, a food item that was previously known to me as (roughly) “Yao-Jok -Gwai“.

The blending of crispy duck, sweet hoisin sauce, donut, and soft rice noodle was something completely new, but still distinctly familiar. The Chinito might really catch on, and I would not be at all surprised if we see some copycats popping up within a year, much like the Korrito. Get in on the ground floor, folks.

The atmosphere at Lung Shan was interesting to say the least. The older, weathered Lung Shan staff seemed to be casually lounging in the dining area while these youngsters shuffled around their kitchen. Looks like I wasn’t the only one curious about this odd dynamic, as Chow asked about it in this recent article:

I just couldn’t get over the strange-bedfellow relationship of the old-school Chinese restaurant and nouveau Chinese restaurant. I asked Myint, who features a Lung Shan dumpling dish as a kind of homage on his own menu, whether Lung Shan chefs would be “trained” to make items off the Mission Chinese menu, too.

“They don’t really need our training,” he said, pausing to let the ridiculousness of the question sink in. “They’ve actually taught us some things.”

Bonus: The kind server threw in the Szechuan pickles free of charge, thus confirming your suspicion that us orientals hook each other up.

Previously:

Mission Chinese Food Is Open!

I thought a little Friday afternoon hate might do us all some good. (Like by giving us a chuckle or making us think.) Some advice from a reader regarding a stolen-bike story from earlier in the week:

Guess your little U-lock you’all (yes, ya’ll, hip-loser) carry so cleverly on your belt isn’t getting it done.  Ever been to NYC? Ever see their locks?  Yes, they same type of shit they used to chain-up King Kong.  Get with it, SF pussies.

Thanks for the tip!

Photo by ajfis2.

Jesse Hazelip, the man behind a hundred rad pieces of street art we’ve all drooled over, is going to be exhibiting a bunch of stuff at SFMOMA starting tomorrow. And for free! And there’s a party! From the official press release:

The work for this installation involves large scale mixed media pieces on wooden panels, each commenting on contemporary sociopolitical issues in a cause and effect statement. Hazelip’s installation will be up from July 10 – November 13, 2010 and can be seen from the street 24 hours a day and seven days a week. The SFMOMA Garage Windows are located at street level 147 Minna and 150 Natoma St. (between Third and New Montgomery Sts.). The artist will host an opening reception at The Earth Bar at Temple Nightclub, located at 540 Howard Street on Saturday, July 10, 2010 from 2-7PM.

Kudos, Jesse!

This time around, you can presubmit your mixtape for Judges’ Choice consideration, so they’ll be able to really appreciate my putting “Party in the USA” by Miley Cyrus right up against “You Bet” by Kaela Kamura.

Get to work!

See the San Francisco Mixtape Society for all the details.

And what exactly is a “bad kid survival kit”? Click here to view tvbreakfast‘s photo in its entirety, and read some commentary. Some commenters seem to think graffiti might be involved.

What is the provenance of this peerless napkin? And what possibly supernatural phenomenon is being depicted? S. Pigeon has some theories.

Happy Friday, you guys! Quit looting department stores now and adopt a pet please!

Jack — 7 year old male

Jack is just your typical one-eyed friendly kitty! He is Mr. Personality and will win you over in no time at all! Want a best friend? Jack’s your cat. This fella has lived with other cats before, and might not mind a new brother or sister at all! Arrrrr matey! And don’t forget! Our Cat-A-Palooza specials continue through July…name your OWN adoption fee for all cats over 6 months of age! For reals!

Lakota– 10 month old male Doberman

Are you ready for a luxury-sized dog? Meet Lakota. He’s big (and likely to get even bigger), strong, friendly and playful. He’s still just an overgrown puppy and has a lot to learn. He’s looking for an active adopter that can keep up with his high energy level, and who will take him to a rewards-based training class right away.

All pets adopted from SFSPCA have received a pre-adoption veterinary exam and behavior assessment, vaccinations, spay/neuter surgery and a microchip.

Where: The San Francisco SPCA’s Maddie’s Adoption Center
Address: 250 Florida Street (at 16th – Street)
Hours: Open Tues – Friday 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday/Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Closed Mondays and major holidays.
Contact: 415-522-3500, www.sfspca.org
Follow SFSPCA at facebook.com/sfspca and twitter.com/sfspca.

Woah, didn’t this just happen less than a month ago? Well it looks like Sunday Streets in the Mission back for a second round this weekend. Not that anyone’s complaining.

Lots of cool free events will be scattered along the route including:

Circus Performance: Harrison Street at 20th (O’Connell H.S. lot)
Presented by Circus Bella
• 11:30-12:00 Parade down Harrison
• 12:00-1:00 Live circus performance

I caught Circus Bella last weekend at Yerba Buena and it was awesome. They set up their own circus ring and are accompanied with live music composed by local accordion hero Rob Reich. It’s going to be outdoors so you can bet that the trapeze will be hanging much higher than it was at their last performance at Amnesia.

Other than that, you can probably expect the usuals: purple robed guy on the tricycle with ginormo speakers, meligrosa snapping photos of her shoes, and a bunch of folks saying, “they should do this every week”.

More at Sunday Streets SF.

Reader subframe poses something of a moral quandary:

What do you do when there’s a cool bike locked up around the corner from your house for like 6 months?

It is pretty clear it’s been abandoned/forgotten. I’m certainly not about to steal a bike, although if I knew who’s it was I’d offer em money for it. Somebody WILL steal it eventually though, I’m sure.

I’d put up a post on CL, but that might simply alert thieves to a bike that’s ripe for stealing.

What do you do?

Photo by pdxdiver.

Every Friday morning, 24th/Mission BART commuters are serenaded with the lyrical stylings of this wandering shade of Johnny Cash.  Too bad I wasn’t able to capture “Walk the Line” in this particular instance.

Apologies for the shaky video, as I was walking with a slow, dragging limp.