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Summers in San Francisco where I work 3 days a week are rarely hot let alone warm enough to come to work without a jacket. It is on days like that when you need something warm and soothing for your cold bones.

I normally take myself out to lunch then to a place called LongLife noodle house and jook joint.

This place is inside the Metreon on Mission St and 4th St in San Francisco where you can also find an Imax movie theater, a Playstation Store, a Sony Style store, Buckhorn Grill, Firewood Grill, Sanraku (japanese food), Julianne’s and Luna Azul which is a mexican restaurant.

When I go to LongLife I always get the same thing. Now if you read around on the web you are bound to find reviews of this place that do nothing but bash it. My only guess about that is these people are used to a certain kind of chinese food (usually Cantonese) or Szechuan style. This place is a little different. They take some classic dishes and change them a little. What I like is called Tampopo.

Their Tampopo, based on the movie classic of the same name consists of fresh Ramen noodles with barbecued pork slices, Menma (bamboo shoot), Naruto (white fishcake with a pink swirl) and thinly sliced green onions in a bonito broth. The broth is quite good with a mild salty taste but i always like to kick it up a notch. Seen here in the accompanying dish is a mixture of Sriracha hot sauce, chili oil, white vinegar and soy sauce. This gives the soup a good amount of heat to warm up even the chilliest day.

This will set you back a mere $8 for lunch. The bowl you see is huge, much of the time I have trouble finishing and I never drink all the broth.

Why am I writing about what I had for lunch? Mainly because almost every week I see an article on John Chow.com about his lunch or his “dot com pho” and I’m always intrigued at that. He likes to show how extravagant one can be when money isn’t an object. For bloggers just starting out though, it can be intimidating. You probably won’t see me bragging about a $60 hamburger topped with bacon and fois gras because I don’t like liver and no hamburger is worth that much money to me. The best burgers in the world are from Jack’s Hamburgers in Santa Cruz anyway…

I thought I would show you how other successful bloggers eat. I consider myself successful because I’m making money from my blogs now. Month after month I continue to pull in Revenue. Sure, it’s not JohnChow.com kind of money yet, but even he started somewhere. Besides I don’t want to be the next John Chow, I just want to be me.

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