A Labor-Free Labor Day in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park
The Salmon Ochazuke at B Star restaurant, 127 Clement St. in San Francisco
Yesterday I was in the mood to get out of dodge for a while, otherwise known as Novato, so we left Tabs in charge of the office and headed to the city.
We ended up in one of my favorite San Francisco neighborhoods, Clement Street in the Inner Richmond. I lived right around there when I worked in downtown SF, and I’ve always had a soft spot for the area (El Hub and I actually met for the very first time on the sidewalk in front of a great local bookstore on Clement St. called Green Apple). It’s a very old and diverse neighborhood, with lots of mom-and-pop stores and a big Asian population.
And a TON of great restaurants.
We were craving rice and turned to Yelp, which directed us to B Star restaurant’s Burmese-Asian fusion.
I had the Salmon Ochazuke — Japanese style comfort food with pan fried rice, green tea broth (yup, they poured the tea over it right in front of me), poached egg, pickled mustard green, lotus, hijiki, green onion and pickled plum.
El Hub had the Tuna Don.
Tuna Don — seared tuna, gingered rice, scallions, pickled ginger, hijiki, daikon sprouts, sunny-side egg, furikake and avocado
Lychee Iced Tea
With actual lychees, yum!
After lunch and a leisurely stroll around the neighborhood, we zipped over to Golden Gate Park and Stow Lake, where we rented a paddle boat for an hour.
Incidentally, it was about a million times easier than the 4-hour kayaking adventure on Lake Tahoe last month, OMG!
If you’re ever in Golden Gate Park when the weather’s nice, oh! — you gotta try it. It’s easy enough for people of all ages (we even saw an older gentleman with a walker getting his paddle boat on), and they have boats for 2-6 people, as well as canoes (which are a little harder to maneuver).
Turtle power! A hero in a half-shell…
