@Chowseeker1999: posting pics from phone and typing text on tablet.
Day 3:
Dim sum, IMHO, doesn’t make sense when you have a party of 2. I somehow made it out of Dragon Beaux w/o ordering the baked BBQ buns (!!!), and I would’ve been interested in trying the geoduck congee and abalone tart. The amount of food we did order was a bit overwhelming. Roast pork belly was excellent, w amazing skin. XO dumpling were stuck to the steamer paper. I liked the topping, but the there wasn’t much flavor otherwise. Scallop siu mai were excellent. Fish chip and red rice wrapper were excellently cooked (fish filling was so light and crisp), but the dish was also bizarrely sweet.
Fried rice didn’t have a ton of wok hei and was a bit undersalted.
Loved the black sesame mochi.
In the end, I enjoyed the food from a technical perspective but would only return if I could come with a party of, like, 6.
Dinner was judt around the corner from us (lower Pac Heights) at the unimaginatively named “Osteria.” No pics, aside from the menu. Very much a mom-and-pop place, with warm service. Bread was very good, mozzarella (not burrata), cesar salad, and capellini were all fine. Not at all a destination, but not every meal needs to be a special occasion.