LogFAQs > #952560040

I prob won't only look for pizza/chinese and mongolian, but that is my main focus as it's the kind of foods it's hardest for me to get here (that is good or great).

BBQ would also be worthy of a stop (especially beef ribs which don't exist here).

I do have a pretty restricted pallet and I can make really good steak/chicken etc. The things i can't make myself at high quality taste are Chinese food mainly. Even mongolian I can make fairly well at home (It's just not easy and I don't have a hot enough grill etc). I could buy things to make it possible in a pinch though.

Yeah CA is crazy, I don't remember the places in LA, I know there was a great on on Sunset blvd, for instance but don't remember it's name. My uncle lives in Malibu though and between me recognizing the places and his knowledge I should be good there.

Meanwhile I have the bay area on lockdown for good food, at least as far as places that have not opened in the last 10 years or so. I used to know all the good mongolian bbq places there but i'm sure many/most have closed either over time or due to covid at this point *sigh*.

Porky's pizza in San Leandro is a def stop though. Pnochios in Gilroy as well, there was one in Millipetes that was yum and another in pleasanton (in the shopping center that used to have safeway/albertsons but now that they are the same company who knows what happened to them).

Meanwhile there is good Chinese food everywhere in the Bay, I literally have way to many places I want to go try again, I almost need to be there for a month just to get started. I mean, there are places that have the best *blank* that I wanna try again, enough that I would be eating for like 20+ days straight just to try each lol.

I would def need to stay awhile in other places as well. Don't know chicago for instance, but NY is gonna be hard, I wouldn't just do the pizza there (though I know one of the best pizza places, it's on Long Island and my family basically swoons over it and grew up there). There is also REALLY good meatball subs in NY along with the best (that I have ever had) Calzones as well. I will have to kick it there for awhile as well, and that isn't even touching the Chinese food situation there as well (and the fact that so many of the good places deliver lol).

I also love fish and chips for instance, but I would prob hold off on trying that much on the trip. I wanna kinda hit that when I travel over seas where it's not likely i'll have many good pizza/Chinese choices etc (especially since I'll be in Ireland/England alot).

Not gonna youtube it either, just ....wanna travel while I still can, if it becomes possible again. Can't do the whole mask thing for hours, so it pretty much is gonna have to be a road trip (and means no Europe trip for awhile till/if things even get back to a semblance of normal).

I love pizza probably more than anything, but I miss good Chinese more than that (because there is still semi-decent pizza available around here, and I can make fairly good pizza myself (just can't get really good cheese is the biggest restriction for me).

Pot stickers at Pinapple Express in Gilroy are superb (I can make a similar type/method but mine are not nearly as good, and those are just insane). Mongolian Beef at shangralai in dublin (not the best chinese in that area, but the place that was right next to outback steakhouse in dublin seems to be gone!!).
So many good places looking em up would take hours actually. Even just in Hayward/fremont there are like 10+ I would want to try again. I so miss the good (actual chow mein) compared to the (low mein) here in washington (chow mein here is different...and the low mein isn't nearly as good).

As far as mongolian bbq, I knew a bunch but don't remember the names. I don't think I hit cupertino much though, so maybe I missed those. That being said there were so many good choices in the bay I never had to travel far to get my mongolian bbq fix (as apposed to here in Olympia, where the closest one takes over an hour drive now (there was one in olympia that was good but it closed within 2 years of moving here...sigh).


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