Showing posts with label japanese desserts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label japanese desserts. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Thwartation


Without going into the dreary details of my workday, suffice to say that today was a day of thwartation* (*not a real word). At every turn I was thwarted, starting with my early a.m. review of the day's plan. I found out that the reading I was excited to attend was not in fact today, but on Friday (thwart 1). Upon learning this I decided I would go to the formerly homeless shoe-shine guy to support him and learn a little about his experience, only to find that he had a court date at that time (thwart 2). I decided that since my day had been dreary (no details needed), I would go to Zubio chair massage, for a quickie, only to find out that Zubio (as its former self) had closed and was now being run by a single guy as Break Point who was booked when I walked in (thwart 3).

After a series of minor disappointments and little creativity to find something new to do, I stumbled upon an interesting little shop, Minamoto Kitchoan which is located almost next door to my office building at 648 Market Street San Francisco (415) 989-1635. The atmosphere made the desserts appear precious. Although clearly the intent was the sale of gift boxes, I was not intimidated to go in and ask them about their specialties and if I could buy just one. So I selected a little mochi with a black bean paste (delicious) and returned to my humble work abode with a sense of success.

  • Life Changing: 1 (hardly)
  • Fun: 3 (fun enough)
  • Easy to implement: 1 (easy)
  • Worthy of repetition: 5 (absolutely)
  • Try This: 5 (try this)
  • Cost: 2 (my mochi was $2.50 - not a wallet buster, but this was a little treat)