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- Showed me around the city in a zip car<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Invited me to her lovely apartment, where I admired the beautiful jackets she is working on for her Etsy shop.<\/li>\n
- Treated me to a drink at a fancy hot chocolate place. (I had Chocolate Thai Iced Tea. She had Spicy Hot Chocolate.)<\/li>\n
- Took me window shopping on Fillmore and, like ENC<\/a> and K-Line<\/a>, tried to convince me that EVERY color goes with navy. I still feel dubious about this.<\/li>\n
- Finished up our part of the day with a glass of white wine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I foolishly neglected to have someone take a picture of us in our coordinated Target tops (hers by Thakoon and mine by Temperley) before Annie put me on a bus and sent me to Mai of Fashionist<\/a>. Mai is a street-style photographer, so I surprised her in a boring way when I showed up in jeans and a Target sweater. But, as I told her, my daytime style effort is limited to the wearing of red lipstick, heels and jewelry. I don’t put much effort into what falls in between those items. <\/div>\n<\/div>\nDespite my appearance, Mai gave me a tour of the Mission neighborhood and:<\/div>\n\n- \n
- Brought me to her apartment where we played Boggle while waiting to get to the top of the list at nearby Mission Street Food<\/a>. The restaurant is more like a happening<\/a> that takes over a Chinese restaurant on Thursday and Saturday nights. Profits are donated to charity, and local chefs serve great food very inexpensively. Last night, the chefs were from Nopa<\/a>, which is the very hot restaurant we tried and failed to get a reservation at the night before.<\/li>\n
- Took me to Bi-Rite Creamery<\/a> for the salted caramel ice cream.<\/li>\n
- Took me to the Receiver Gallery<\/a> to see the pleasantly perverted work of the artist Porous Walker<\/a>. While Mai was buying a piece of art, a guy walked over and politely handed me a silver dollar. I’m not sure if it was the artist or just a dude who likes to share the joy of silver dollars, but either way, I’ll save it as a souvenir.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nMai and <\/span>Karen<\/span><\/a>, one of the folks behind Mission Street Foo<\/span><\/span>d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SdhMJ-UxwyI\/AAAAAAAAHlY\/os9pAHgryfs\/s320\/IMG_0416.JPG\")
<\/a><\/p>\nDetail of a Porous Walker work made with hundreds (thousands?) of plastic toy<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\nI’m thinking Annie and Mai should start the Annie & Mai San Francisco Tour Agency. If they do, make sure to book early. They’re going to be more popular than Nopa.<\/p>\nUPDATED TO ADD: Check out Annie’s photo of me in the Target sweater here.<\/a><\/div>\n
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I had the ultimate tour of San Francisco today thanks to two gorgeous bloggers. Annie of Poetic & Chic: Showed me around the city in a zip car. Invited me to her lovely apartment, where I admired the beautiful jackets she is working on for her Etsy shop. Treated me to a drink at a…<\/p>\n
- Took me to Bi-Rite Creamery<\/a> for the salted caramel ice cream.<\/li>\n