{"id":153,"date":"2009-06-05T10:09:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T18:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/mission-street-food\/"},"modified":"2009-06-05T10:09:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T18:09:52","slug":"mission-street-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/mission-street-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Street Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, I took the mighty Caltrain Baby Bullet up to San Francisco to experience Mission Street Food<\/a>. This is not quite an underground restaurant<\/a>, in that they operate in the kitchen of an actual establishment that is (presumably) inspected and licensed and all that. That establishment would be Lung Shan Restaurant<\/a> (beware of automatic music if you click) whose flash-heavy website belies the essential cheesy-SF-Chinese restaurant vibe of the place itself. It is, as you might expect, on Mission St.<\/p>\n

MSF (as the cool kids seem to call it) brings in guest chefs to cook locally-sourced food in evening events that benefit local charities. It is quite the scene. I arrived about 15 minutes before the 6:00 pm opening, and I was one person behind the cutoff for the first seating. All the chairs are filled; if your party is not big enough to fill a table, you share with others. I came back at 7:00, and was seated with a couple who had ordered everything on the menu, to their great enjoyment. <\/p>\n

I didn’t go quite that far. I had the king trumpet – mushroom with triple fried potato, garlic confit and charred scallion sour cream on a homemade flatbread – $6<\/p>\n

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(my apologies for the exceptionally underwaterish iPhone photos. What ambience exists is created by turning all the overhead lights off and using candles and mini Christmas lights as illumination.)<\/p>\n

That was followed by crispy pork belly, filipino breakfast style. with fried garlic rice and a fried egg egg – $9<\/p>\n

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Both dishes were exceptionally tasty. The flatbread was flaky and warm, the mushrooms juicy with crispy edges, the sour cream rich and unctuous. I even ate up every bit of the fried rice, and I usually won’t cross the street for rice. I was also very happy with the portion sizes and the prices.<\/p>\n

And, evidently, so were many other people. As I said, I couldn’t even get in to the first seating, and when I left, I heard the hostess telling newcomers that they could maybe be seated at 9:30 pm. The atmosphere was definitely Mission Hipster, but cheerfully so, with people who love food and their neighborhood. (My table-mates were amazed that I had schlepped up from San Jos\u00c3\u00a9.) I don’t know when I’ll be back, but I’ll be following their blog from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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