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Yesterday night, went to Kan Zaman to have some food and drinks with friends before I leave for my travels. It was great and we had the best seats of the house to be able to see the Belly Dancing performance. The food was so-so, but the belly dancing, atmosphere, music played and company of good friends was wonderful !!

I was driving on Saturday evening to go to the East Bay, when I stumbled upon the Chinese New Year Parade on Market St. I parked and got a few shots before going to the East Bay. The Chinese New Year Parade of San Francisco is among the biggest in the non-asian world. It was a huge procession with lots of floats and participants. I was very impressed for the short time I got to enjoy it.

I was strolling in Chinatown in San Francisco this past week and they were having a pork delivery. Looks pretty gross and sad how these pigs are sliced sideways in two.

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Yet another Bohemian Carnival that I went to. This time though, as I have been to many of the previous ones maybe, I had kind of seen most of the acts and it was not as novel and as much fun as the first times and furthermore, the crowd was very different - a lot more of a marina-esque and drunk people that any other bohemian carnival I went to, but as usual they did a good entertaining show.

 

San Francisco is host to the best steet musicians and today while on Haight St, i saw this awesome beatles performance by Alex Rok! He was excellent !!! I wish he does get some gigs in the city. He said he's looking for gigs ! Lots of talent !

I came back home and googled him as I thought he was excellent and I found out that, that guy holds a Guiness Records

"Alex broke the Guinness Book of World Records mark for “Longest Concert by Solo Artist”. He played 32 hours at Pub Bourbon Street in Radomsko, Poland from June 20 to 21, 2009. He performed from memory nearly 500 songs, including nearly all the Beatles songs."

He has his own website (http://www.alexrok.com/) and has been touring Europe etc..

SF Streets is always full of good surprises !

 

 

Every Valentine's day, there's a Pillow Fight Flash Mob in San Francisco. Many hundreds of people gather at a public space and pillow fight each other !! Today, yet again, another valentine's day, another pillow fight !!

Read more about the SF Pillow fight here.

http://www.pillowfight.info/

Here's a video I took of the event

We celebrated the year of the Tiger at Wayne and Hiren's place with a potluck and great company and great food. I cooked pancit noodles with purple cabbage, carrots and shrimps. It came out a bit salty as I cooked too much noodles in a small pot and could not evaluate correctly amount of salt to put in and could not turn well. So, I called my new dish - Salty noodles :)

Attached a collage of all the pics from the party. I just discovered this feature in Picassa.. pretty neat feature !

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Tonight I had the hottest ever dish in my life - Chicken with Explosive Chili Peppers at the Z & Y Schezuan Chinese restaurant in San Francisco Chinatown. I think it had more peppers than chicken - very tasty though. I can't wait to try all the other hot schezuan specialities at Z & Y.