"Two burgers, two shakes and two fries. Come eat with two hungry big guys!" So goes the theme song to We Eating TV, a Web video series profiling Bay Area eateries set to a hip-hop soundtrack and hosted by two insiders of the local music scene: Big Jon of the veteran DJ crew Style Beyond Compare (SBC) and The Homie Gus (aka GuS-tomer Service), a promoter and host for events under the banner of the JunkYard Gang. The show fulfills a desire for these two longtime friends and Bay Area natives to work on a project together; they also have local music video director Mono of Baysick Entertainment manning the camera and editing stations.
"The Bay Area is blessed, we are a melting pot of culture," says Gus. "If you want to hit up a Thai, Ethiopian, vegetarian, Japanese, Hawaiian, breakfast, soul food, Vietnamese, Latin, Filipino, Indian, American, or Italian [restaurant], we've got it all. There are endless locations for us to explore and introduce not only to Bay Areans, but foodies worldwide!"
With episodes so far dedicated to burritos, cheesesteaks, BBQ, and deli meat, this isn't exactly fine dining, but it does cover an eating sector where the price is definitely right.
Name: Chocolate Covered Coconut Shortbread
Brand: Kika's Treats
Origin: San Francisco
Found at: San Francisco International Chocolate Salon
Cost: $7.50
Ingredients: Semisweet chocolate, unsalted butter, unbleached wheat flour, rice flour, unrefined cane sugar, Rapadura sugar, unsweetened coconut, kosher salt, coconut extract, vitamin E
Why I bought it: Kika's Brazilian Honey Cakes are lovely, but the shortbread is a new offering from this La Cocina Incubator Kitchen-operated business.
Tasting notes: The Rapadura (dried sugarcane juice) gives this a caramelized tinge that's appealing. There's a good crunch and it doesn't make a big, crumby mess like regular shortbread.
Would I buy it again? Yes, although the Honey Cakes are beckoning . . .
What other blogs/sites thought of it: A Yelper calls these "so dark and addictive it's almost criminal."
