" Some decent Asian food in San Diego finally
Kok Lim, Singaporean who has been in San Diego for four years, doing his PhD in UCSD, took us to Tofu House in Convoy St for dinner. Convoy is like a mini-Chinatown for San Diego, which does not really have one.
The five of us were so happy to drive out here. The Asian food in downtown SD has been abysmal and this discovery was a welcome change.
You take the i-5 South, then into the i-52 East, and exit at Convoy, just 15 minutes drive from downtown. The place is like a Leng Kee or Jln Eunos, filled with many car dealerships. And lots of Asian food. The mall we went to was just after the Infiniti dealership.
This kind of place, tour bus don’t take you there one.
It was really cool to touch base with a fellow Singaporean, so many miles away from home. And he even drove out to meet us.
Kok Lim said, “Here, you have to drive everywhere. The public transport is not quite there, buses come like once an hour. To get here without driving, I would have had to take three buses and more than an hour. But driving only took me 15 minutes.”
When I first came here, I was not used to driving long distances,” Kok Lim continues, “but after a while, you don’t think twice about driving two, three hours to get to where you want to go.”
“Ya,” I said, “we Singaporeans drive a bit only say far.”
Gas (or petrol) here has seen a major surge in prices recently, just like us. It used to be around USD1.70 a gallon, Kok Lim told us, but now it is past USD3 a gallon, even touching USD4 a gallon at one point.
So I guess those who are driving those Hummers must be feeling the gas pinch now. But then if you can afford a Hummer, what’s gas, right?
You wait lah, USA. When a growing China starts to compete with you for natural resources like gas, you see whether your gas prices will be ONLY USD3 a gallon. Maybe it’s time to start riding the “IT’ bike, the one I saw on the hilarious South Park episode on TV tonight.
July 24th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
hi mr brown and mr miyagi, will you guys be coming to san francisco? i can bring you to makan places here too!!!
July 24th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Further down the road, you can find Dumpling Inn. The dumplings are very nice. Can also try the vegetarian ones. They also serve very good noodles. Their chili is REAL HOT!
USD10 jiak ka ba!
July 24th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
yeah man that place is a heaven for chinese foodie eaters like us :-) was there for work for 3 months and almost every dinner is taken there.
July 24th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
oh, and actually it used to be lower than 1.70 a gallon, depending where lor.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Wow,
Kok Lim was my housemate when I was on student exchange in San Diego just last year. Really a super nice guy and after looking at your article, it really reminds me of the days in San Diego, relazed and fun and all the great company there.
KC