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Join us on April 26th from noon to 3pm for boba specials, giveaways, and special treats at your favorite Downtown San Mateo boba shops and retailers.

For a city best known for tangy sourdough and loaded Mission-style burritos, San Francisco is surprisingly home to quite a few pizza joints. From crispy Detroit-style to classic New York-style slices, you can find just about every type of pie in the Bay Area, and there are some pretty fun stories behind them. A perfect example is Del Popolo, a family-owned operation that grew from a makeshift food truck to earn a spot on Tasting Table's list of the best pizza places in every state.

EggBred, created by chef-CEO Albert Shim, specializes in overstuffed egg sandwiches, fried chicken and burgers served on toasted milk buns. The sausage and chorizo are made in-house for the Pork Sausage Egg & Cheese, which also includes an over-medium egg, sharp cheddar, smoked paprika spread and roasted pepper chimichurri.

whose family immigrated to Los Angeles in 1967, remembers vividly how his school lunch of braised pork and Chinese sauerkraut between two pieces of bread was looked at by his classmates. 'Oh, God, what are you eating? That's gross,' Chen recalled during a recent busy lunch hour at his San Francisco restaurant and bar, China Live, on the edge of the nation's oldest Chinatown. 'And now everybody wants the braised pork and Chinese sauerkraut. Hopefully, perception of Chinese (food) has now come a long ways.'

Characterized by bold and balanced notes of heat and sourness, southwestern Chinese cooking has been influenced by the many ethnic groups that call the region home, including the Miao, Dong, and Buyi peoples. Hengry's dishes come straight from Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province, where Au's family owned a restaurant in the early '90s.

Collectively, we have spent several decades in the grand Cantonese palaces of the San Gabriel Valley in search of the precision that nudges dumplings from fine to sublime and the attention to ingredients that ignite the senses like daybreak. One gleaned the proper thickness for dumpling wrappers and bounce-back softness of a superior bao under the discerning eye of her grandmother, Tina Wong, who was raised in China's southern Guangdong province, the capital of dim sum.

The secret's out: one of Greater Boston's most iconic restaurants is getting a new location in an unexpected spot. Kowloon, the Chinese restaurant in Saugus that has been on the map for more than 75 years now, is expanding to Revere Beach. By the sound of it, the expansion location will be a whole new experience. The Phantom Gourmet broke the news Wednesday morning on social media, with CEO and program host Dave Andelman assuring viewers that it was "not a joke!"