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Author: ItsiW

places/dandelion-chocolate.md

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+name: Dandelion Chocolate
+cuisine: Dessert
+address: 740 Valencia St
+area: Mission District
+lat: 37.761013
+lon: -122.4216972
+phone: "+14153490942"
+menu: 
+drinks: False
+visited: "2025-02-17"
+taste: 1
+value: 2
+instagram_published: False
+---
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+This is a chocolate place that makes expensive fancy chocolate and hot drinks. The best thing about it is that you get to **infinitely sample all the chocolates** while you wait in the line! And all the chocolate is vegan, just cacao and sugar. It's an adventure in the beans themselves, and they're very tasty.
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+The main thing to get here though are the **hot chocolates** and **mochas**. They can do most of them vegan if you just do it with an alt milk, just not the European drinking chocloate. I usually get the **Mexican Mocha** which is a spiced hot chocolate with a shot of espresso.
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+They also have a vegan carrot cake, I think other people like it but it tastes a bit generic vegan to me.
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+The drinks are a bit pricey, like $9 with tax and tip, but I think it's worth it with all the samples. The vibe inside is a little sterile so I like to grab a drink and go to Dolores Park.

places/hila-gelato-caffe.md

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+name: Hila Gelato Caffè
+cuisine: Dessert
+address: 951 Valencia St
+area: Mission District
+lat: 37.7576972
+lon: -122.4210101
+phone: 
+menu: 
+drinks: False
+visited: "2025-02-18"
+taste: 2
+value: 3
+instagram_published: False
+---
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+Awesome **ice cream** place. The owner is this very funny Italian woman who clearly loves her job. She puts in a ton of effort to the vegan flavors, and does pretty experimental things. One time she made this cucumber sorbet.
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+Also she said she could do custom flavors, because I asked if she could do a vegan pistachio one. She quoted like $100 for 5 liters. Just in case someone with a budget gets ideas.

places/himalayan-hub.md

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+name: Himalayan Hub
+cuisine: Himalayan
+address: 508 Valencia St
+area: Mission District
+lat: 37.7646493
+lon: -122.4221182
+phone: "+14158606972"
+menu: https://himalayanhubs.com/page3.html
+drinks: True
+visited: "2025-02-18"
+taste: 1
+value: 3
+instagram_published: False
+---
+
+Great new Himalayan place on Valencia St. It's super cheap, each dish is under $15 and they're big. The **chili momos** were awesome, deep fried and saucy. Could be hotter though. The jhol momos (steamed in suace) were a little bland. And we got a **thali plate** that they could make vegan, which had 5 dishes of which 3 were great. And that was just $16 which is crazy these days.
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+Great place! Go here.

places/spices-3.md

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 name: Spices 3
 cuisine: Chinese
 drinks: True
-visited: "2022-08-06"
+visited: "2025-02-24"
 address: 370 12th St
 area: Downtown Oakland
-taste: 1
-value: 2
+taste: 2
+value: 3
 lat: 37.802305882468936
 lon: -122.27004915721817
-menu: https://order.mealkeyway.com/merchant/774675624b30566763665969787245344a78653569773d3d/main
+menu: https://www.bestfoodtodayus.com/ordering/restaurant/menu?restaurant_uid=1b46614b-2a6b-4463-8fff-68ba208a3c79
 phone: "+15106258889"
-instagram_published: True
+instagram_published: False
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-This is a **Sichuan place** with a menu that is frankly too large. However that means there's a lot of veggie options. However that means there's a lot of ways to order the wrong thing. I think I got something ok, but coulda been better. I got the Hunan steamed eggplant with chili, it was fine, standard eggplant in gluggy sauce. Some of the fried dishes looked a lot better. Also they've got an entire stinky tofu section.
+One would think looking at a place with a menu this large that it would be bad. But it is, in fact, pretty great. I can't believe I've been sitting on this place for so long.
 
-I think I'd only come here again with a lot of people to try some things.
+Also after tip and tax, for a huge feast, it was $20 a head.
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+It's a Sichuan/Hunan restaurant. Tons and tons of vegan options, we only got into a little of it. 
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+Get:
+- numbing spicy cucumbers (incredible)
+- Mung Bean Noodle
+- Spicy Fried Tofu w/ Explosive Chili 
+- Fire Burst! Cabbage w/Garlic
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+Don't get
+- Hunan steamed eggplant with chili
+- Stinky tofu (unless you like it, but maybe you should explore and try it)
+- Iron Pot mixed Tofu
+- Sesame Noodles
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+Way more to explore, I will be here again.