Have Food Will Travel: Pearl River Delta from Leonard on Vimeo.
Born as the son of a restaurateur, my father reminded me the power of Chinese food and that this cuisine has feed billions of people around the world. Look around, there are Chinatown’s all over the world.
Watch the clip above that I found from [...]

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Living with family members, let alone working with them can make life miserable. So, it was refreshing and encouraging to read about an entrepreneurial family that has had great success working with the family. Read the full article here.

3 Tips When Working w/ Family Members
1) Create detailed contracts for all maters involved with money
2) [...]

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Yelp!, I’m addicted. Cleverly written in Biz Journal, Sarah Duxbury wrote a piece titled Restaurant Learn to Yelp. She informs the transformation of user generated reviews.
Here are a few of my points.
Community. If you’re a restaurant owner, you need to have a comment box that people actually use. In this case, Yelp is [...]

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A customer once jokingly said that Lee’s Deli one of the fastest sandwich makers west of the Missisippi. Hard to dispute, after all the workers behind the sandwich counter can assemble a sandwich in a matter of minutes.
Serving a few thousand office workers daily, Lee’s Deli has been an icon for fast and [...]

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Otaku has often been used to describe obsessive collectors but in the case of the ramen world, this term applies to the cult following of this famous Japanese noodle dish. Through out the years, ramen diners have infiltrated the entire globe. Ramen can be considered the popular choice for comfort food. Popular [...]

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Happy 4th of July to my readers. Today I continue writing about my adventures at the Buy Fresh, Buy Local food tasting. Spotting an ice cold chest of apple juice, I marched forward and was greeted by Kendra, the director of Nana Mae’s Organics.
With a charming smile, she invited me to taste her [...]

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3 Worst lines followed by “Let’s be Frank….”
a. “I see you as my friend, you’re my teddy bear.”
b. “You’re not smart enough for me to date you.”
c. “Sorry, but you remind me of Shrek.”
Best line followed by “Let’s be Frank…”
“dogs gone good, made from 100% grass-fed beef”
After full bodied wines, nutty hard cheeses, and a [...]

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Last week, I was invited as “Press” to Buy Fresh Buy Local Food Guide Press Release Party at 1 Fort Mason. Once step into Fort Mason, I have arrived to fresh food heaven. With a wine glass and food tray in my hands, I danced away to my eating adventures.
For starters, oysters on a half [...]

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