(Photo from the SFGate.com)
Chinese food doesn’t make national headlines very often, so it was a pleasant surprise to see a Chinese takeout-related story all over the news today. On Thursday, President Obama made a surprise stop in San Francisco’s Chinatown while in town for a fundraising event. He went to Great Eastern Restaurant, and after a round of hand-shaking, left with two big bags of takeout.
Ever since I started working on my book, I’ve been super curious about which Chinese dishes famous people like to eat. (Hey, it’s research!) Luckily, KTSF 26, a San Francisco Chinese-language news station, appeared to have gotten a photo of Obama’s dim sum order, which fellow food writer Michele Humes shared on Facebook. The President was apparently a big fan of pretty much all the dumplings, plus the egg tarts, deep-fried crab claws, and deep-fried shrimp puffs (I get those cravings too…)
And changed his mind about the sticky rice.
(Photo from KTSF.com. Click to view larger version on their site.)
Obama’s half-sis is married to a Malaysian Chinese….maybe that’s how he has learned to enjoy dimsum! Pssstt… that bro-in-law’s parents live here in the same city! I know…it is a stretch!
Imagine the crowd for the restaurant the next day, brilliant! Good share!
President Obama grew up in Honolulu, which is the only place in the entire state that can boast decent dim sum places. Wonder where he has dim sum when he returns home. . . Legend? Hee Hing? Mei Sum?
Thats right, President Obama grew up in Honolulu, where eating Dim Sum is like going out for burgers.
Living in Hawaii is a blend of many cultures and we all grow up eating different cuisines.
I love that picture of him
aloha
Diana, you’ve got some 404 issues on your site. Clicking that linked photo brings the user to a 404 page. And “You Gnarly’d it, dude” is kind of an obnoxious message when it was you, dude, who gnarly’d it. I’ve encountered similar problems with some of the “Related Recipe” links on other posts. Not trying to be a jerk, just offering some Q.C.
Matt – Thank you for the heads up. The weird phrasing of the 404 message is actually the default message on WordPress blogs, not something I would have typed up on my own, and which I didn’t know how to change until now. And I agree, the default message should definitely be something less obnoxious.
The issue with the photos might be a bug that came with the last upgrade. I’ll have to look into that. As for the recipes, I apologize that you’ve been coming up with empty links. Please let me know which ones you come across that are getting 404′d so I can fix the links! Again, thanks!
Thanks for the response, Diana. Didn’t realize the 404 was an auto-response from WordPress. The other 404 errors I noticed earlier seem to be fixed, too. Usually it would occur on the “Related Recipes” links below an article. The link structure seemed bad: it would be: appetiteforchina.com/recipes/recipes/name-of-recipe, essentially doubling up the “recipes” menu item in the link structure and throwing an error.
I just breezed through some of those links and they were in good working order, so the problem seems fixed.
Congrats on the cookbook, btw!