This past weekend, I spent a delicious two days in San Francisco. I discovered that in addition to a farmer's market at the ferry building, there are food stands set up all long the pier. Always one for a smorgasbord of tastings, I couldn't wait to try them all. Unfortunately, my stomach is an eighth of the size of my appetite so I was only able to try a couple. First stop was at Roli Roti, where there was a crazy line. They offer rotisserie chickens but I'm pretty sure everyone was waiting for the ridiculous looking porchetta. Porchetta, pronounced
por-ketta, is a fatty, boneless pork roast generally layered with herbs and other aromatics and traditionally roasted over wood.
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you could hear the crunch of the crackling as they cut into it |
They serve the sandwich with a crunchy Acme ciabatta roll, some onion marmalade and greens. It's phenomenal. In my opinion, it surpasses Porchetta's (NYC) pork sandwich by miles.
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get in mah belly! |
As if this wasn't enough food, I headed to the Namu cart and ordered some gamja fries. Believe it or not, I ate most of this. It was pretty addicting.
My friends ordered a couple other things from the cart, both looked great as well. Everything was made fresh to order.
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beef taco |
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fried chicken with asian slaw and dashi gravy |
There is a reason why I keep visiting the ferry building almost every time I'm in San Francisco. It's really a food mecca for all things delicious. No matter how full I am before I go there, I always make room for more. I've contemplated all the ways I could live as close to it as possible without actually living in a boat off the dock. But perhaps that wouldn't be so horrible if I could wake up to a porchetta sandwich every Saturday.....
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