Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Chocolate Fish

There was a ton of things happening in San Francisco last weekend, in addition to it being close to Penga-Dad's birthday.  My family brought up some friends from home for a jaunt through the ever-traffic-heavy city by the bay, first stopping by the 10th annual Poke Festival.
Salmon poke

It was small, and I don't know if it really counts as a true festival since it seemed more like a promotion for the business in which lot the event sat.  But none the less, they served some pretty delicious poke.  They ran out of all the varieties other than tuna really, really quickly though. And then they started serving fried strips of spam.  Spam fries.  Covered in a mayo sauce.  And yes, I did eat some.

Anyway, after a quick eat, we packed up and headed to the 16th annual Chocolate Festival at Ghiradelli Square.

It was super duper crowded and there weren't as many sample-vendors as usual so lines were really long.  (And yes, I did a double-take of someone who looked familiar, I think it was you Ashley! Though without the cosplay I got confused. :P)
Applesauce in a tube.  Not sure how this counts as chocolate...
Chocolate coconut water. Very strange.
Anyway, I'm not sure if fish + chocolate was a great idea, because I was feeling kinda strange later in the day.   It was fun though!

Do you have a favorite local festival? What are you festive about?
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6 comments:

  1. BigAppleNoshSeptember 13, 2011 at 8:17 AM

    Yum, I love poke. I wish it were more readily available in NYC!

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  2. KimSeptember 13, 2011 at 8:27 AM

    Sounds like a fun and delicious weekend! I love the Fillmore Jazz Festival the best, but maybe that's only because it's a few blocks from where we live.

    P.S. Hope you avoided the BART craziness yesterday ;)

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  3. AlvinaSeptember 13, 2011 at 9:41 AM

    What?1 The fried spam fries sound amazing!! :-D

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  4. JenniferSeptember 13, 2011 at 1:44 PM

    Ohhh, my god, I just drooled on my keyboard!! We LOVE poke, and I didn't know they had a festival (or promotion, or whatever it is =)) for it!! We might need to plan ahead next year. Yummmm!!! And I love spam musubi, too! Come to think of it, I also love everything you talked about on this post!

    After living in San Jose most of my life, I still haven't been to the Gilroy Garlic Festival, which I hear is awesome. But I have gone to the Watsonville Strawberry Festival, and loved that!

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  5. KristinSeptember 14, 2011 at 7:32 PM

    HOW DID I NOT SEE YOU I WAS THERE WITH MY PARENTS AND HUSBAND!!!!!!

    I'm not brave enough to try poke :(

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  6. KristinSeptember 14, 2011 at 7:33 PM

    and by there i mean the ghiradelli chocolate festival. we didn't actually do the festival bit, we just split a $9 sundae.

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