Tianjin Baozi/Jian Bing Shop Coming to San Diego, Half Door Brewing Company, and the Missus's Favorite Beer and Snack

Here's a variety of items for a beautiful May Tuesday.

Tianjin Baozi/Jian Bing Shop replacing Mercury Grill:

Candice recently mentioned at baozi shop was coming to San Diego in this strip mall. I finally saw a sign a couple of days ago. Unfortunately, it was written in Chinese. So I drove by with the Missus who told me the sign mentions Tianjin Baozi, one of my favorite things and Jian Bing a dish that takes the Missus back to Her days in Beijing.

Sad to see Mercury Grill close. But I'm really excited to see this.

Man, first Dumpling Inn expands (yawn) and then Myung In opens (meh...plus/minus). Now this. I guess when it rains it pours.

8046 Clairemont Mesa Blvd
San Diego, CA 92111

Half Door Brewing Company:

Speaking of Candice. We decided on grabbing a beer a few months back and she suggested Half Door Brewing Company.

Located on Island Avenue in East Village....I really wasn't too sure

But I was pleasantly surprised. I enjoyed the slightly sour, not too dry Berlinerweiss. A nice middle of the road version. I loved the set-up...in an renovated older building...I gotta find out a bit more about it. The place is owned by the family who owns The Field, so I may drop by and have the Fish and Chips one day.

In other words; I'll be back.

Half Door Brewing Co
903 Island Ave
San Diego, CA 92101

Speaking of Beer:

We were speaking of beer, right?

The Missus's current favorite is the Chili Pepper Spicy Ale form Six Rivers Brewery. It's actually quite good with rich, gamey, stuff like duck rillettes or confit. It's no lightweight, you get a bit of citrus, then boom......nice serious heat. It's not that great with spicy food as the heat from the food nullifies the beer.

The Missus has also developed a fondness for Lays Creamy Forest Mushroom flavored potato chips. I got this as an impulse buy from Balboa Market. It does have an interesting cream of mushroom flavor......nice and savory and the Missus has taken to it.

What we didn't take to was the Rogue Sriracha Hot Stout. We like our chili beers and this one; while a decent stout, good coffee flavors really wasn't true to Sriracha.

Kind of weak and wimpy. Too bad, the Missus loves the Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar with Chocolate.

Can't win 'em all.

And finally:

I often have folks send me...ummmm...."interesting photos". Like this one.

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Hope you're having a great week!

Comments

[kat]

have a nice week!

[caninecologne]

Sriracha stout, hmmmm. My husband might try that. Cathy gave me a bag of those mushroom chips not too long ago. We liked the flavor.

We've been to Half Door twice and enjoyed our breakfast there. Nice folks.

[Kirk]

You too Kat!

Check out that Sriracha Stout CC.....we didn't care for it, mainly because the heat just wasn't enough. In terms of being just a stout, it was decent.