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Liz的2星評語： Okay, I ADORE Jamba Juice. But... * This location is highly understaffed around lunch time. You think that since it's located in the high traffic area that is the Cellar of the biggest Macy's in Northern California, it wouldn't be. I've seen this place being run with only two people around lunch. * I don't want to name names, so let's call a certain employee..."L." For the year plus that I've been visiting this location, "L" has been the laziest Jamba employee I have ever seen. * "L" talks on the phone while he's ringing up customers. * He jokes around with his coworkers as they are frantically trying to work, effectively slowing them down while there are 20 smoothies to be blended and 10 customers waiting to order. * "L" constantly flirts with women, often taking 5 minutes to get one order because he's so busy telling them "Dayam girl, you lookin' guuuuuude toooo-day!" * Where are the darn managers when you need them? Oh right. They're in their little office shootin' the shit...yes kids, we, the customers on the outside, can hear you even with your door closed as you talk about your romps with your girlfriends. Really, it shouldn't take 20 minutes to get my smoothie! Sigh. Maybe I'm just bitter because "L" has never told ME I was 'lookin foine.' What's a girl gotta wear so that she can get her peach pleasure within a reasonable period of time?
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Liz的5星評語： Where is this illusive Studebaker Cheesecake-ery?? The only thing you get is the P.O. Box address found on the sticker outside of the container. If you try to Google them, there is no website, no history lesson, no pictures, no phone number. So, that leaves me with a very limited amount of knowledge about Studebaker: they are a Bay Area company (and I'm assuming a rather small one at that); their cheesecakes are sold at Molly Stone's and various bakeries around the city; their cheesecakes are dense, creamy, tasty, zingy, satisfying but makes you crave more, "all natural" as the box says, yummy, induces mouth-watering, to.die.for... Well, who cares if I can't verify that Studebaker is not really this huge cheesecake conglomerate run by Nabisco or Mars, Inc? Ultimately, I guess, it's that latter point that really counts. -
Liz的4星評語： I only come here for the desserts. Well...and maybe to soak up some HK-ness and get my fix of sago. What the heck is sago? You ask... Well go to Golden Island and see for your own darn self! -
Liz的4星評語： This is like all other Tapex's around town. My fave that's not on the menu: sesame milk tea. Never had it? TRY IT. Ambiance wise: it's very typical Asian Tapex. You got your Pokemon-ish vending machines where a quarter yields some plastic Anime character. Next to those machines you have your Hong Kong tabloids. Don't know who Andy Lau is? Don't worry! Chinese tabloids to the rescue! This Tapex is a lot smaller than most, but it serves it's purpose. Most of the time it's filled with Asian teenagers that have no where else to hang out after school (this place is 2 blocks away from a high school) or late into the night (it closes at 10 PM on weeknights). Also, depending on the time of day you go (or the workers there), you will either be treated to top 40 hip-hop or top 40 Canto- and/or Mandarin pop songs. Yes, I do go here a lot. And no, I don't hang out here. I get my sesame milk tea (the only place that makes it right) and scram. Although I have been known to tap my foot to the beats of some Chinese pop song once or twice... -
Liz的4星評語： Let's draw the similarities between Krispy Kremes and this place, shall we not? + When both landed in the Bay Area, they caused immediate ruckus rivaling that of the Beatles' arrival in the US. People stood in line in the cold and hot to catch a glimpse of this phenomenon. Even those skeptics were generally turned into fans through first taste. + A Beard Papa cream puff boasts 230 calories per puff. Though the original glazed donut from Krispy Kremes is not to be underestimated with 200 calories per holed delight. Despite these nutritional errs, both places have succeeded in luring the health-conscious into denial through sugars and fair pricing. + Devouring these treats is no easy feat. One oozes sugar; the other flakes and melts into stickiness. Both a danger to your fingers, lips, chins, cheeks, and even your shirt. + You can smell both a least a block away. The aroma of butter and sweet baked goodness serves as perfume to its neighbors. Take the Beard Papa at Westfield shopping center for example...you can smell them from the 4th floor (although at first whiff, you wonder if McDonald's has infiltrated the mall and started making A LOT of eggs). + Alas, however, both will begin to lose it's luster (actually, for KK's, it already has. BP's just following in its footsteps...) Lines are no more. People walking around the street with boxes boasting from either of these chains are almost non-existent. (You should have SEEN the streets of Downtown when the first Beard Papa opened up. Couldn't go anywhere without being knocked around by a yellow box.) But, since this is a review for Beard Papa, I will say this: they are less sweet than KK's donuts, thus enabling me to devour two to the one donut. That effectively lifts the caloric intake to 460 against the 200 from the donut. ........ I just saw that last line in actual writing. I need to be in denial again... -
Liz的5星評語： "Hot, Now!" says the neon sign in front of the donut shop. "Score!" I scream as I veer into the parking lot. "Suckas!" I think as I exit Krispy Kreme with my free glazed donut in hand and mouth. I only go here when the glazed donuts are fresh out of the oven and they're giving away one free donut to every person in line. Then I leave, shameless. And that is how I roll... -
Liz的5星評語： Since I'm an ABC, I had no idea what 'boba' or 'tapioca drinks' were until this place opened up on Irving. Every person that loves tapioca drinks knows that this is the birthplace of the boba explosion in San Francisco. It still makes the best tapioca milk tea in town. Forget about the chains in the name of Tapioca Express and Quickly (both of these chain store names allude to speed in preparing the drinks, but honestly, they're not that hard to make, so you can get it real fast ANYWHERE). I just wished they made a sesame milk tea drink... What's not on their menu anymore but they will make for you if you ask is their shaved ice bowl: Shaved ice and 3 layers of anything you want..whether it's grass jelly, tapioca balls, red bean...etc. It is so good, you can enjoy it even in this SF cold weather. -
Liz的5星評語： I absolutely adore this place. It has the BEST hot chocolate in town, scrumptous salads and sandwiches. Their pastries are quite yummy. The only thing, is it's a crap shoot when it comes to their cakes and confections. Their tiramisu in a cup just doesn't cut it...but for everything else, they still get 5 stars. -
Liz的4星評語： This place is so good, the owners go on vacation for about 3-4 months out of the year. Now, that is UNHEARD of in Chinese business management. We open all days of the year...Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and even Chinese New Year's. We open when we're sick. If our kids are sent home early from school, they're gittin' home by themselves cuz mommy and daddy aren't going to close up shop just to pick them up! So the owners of Golden Gate Bakery MUST be making serious bank if they can afford to close for a few months in the year. -
Liz的2星評語： The stars are for the egg puffs. The tapioca drinks don't EVEN compare to other places in the city. And this place is so...bare. It's a mish-mash of wannabe cutesy-teenage hangout and cyper cafe. Although I did take one of those sticky pictures from the booth while I was waiting for my egg puffs to come out. You can find me on a little pink sticker on the lower right corner...
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Liz的1星評語： I guess if you've never eaten at the authentic ones in Hong Kong and China, this place would be good. But if you have, like myself many many times, this place is REALLY bad. For one thing, their mangoes don't compare because I don't think they get it from Southeast Asia like the ones in China. Also, when they make their ice cream, it's chunky and icy. Nothing like the fresh sorbet it's supposed to be. I was so excited when they opened this up in SF after trying the one in Milpitas, hoping the one in SF would adhere more closely to the original. But alas...I'll never be going there again.
