Not disagreeing that Chinese people can be ostentatious. What I means is that, in SoCal, there are also many other (well, at least a few other) ethnicities that are perhaps equally (if not far MORE) ostentatious… 
what ethnicity of people is there (other than the amish) among whom cannot be found very ostentatious groups?
The SFBA is also the world capital of tech, which has brought in way more money than the HQs of banks, insurance companies, and whatnot ever did.
Being in the Michelin guide didn’t hurt, either, though they dropped Hakkasan a year or two back.
lol
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And with Zuckerberg as their poster child, perhaps the antithesis of ostentation? LOL.
And, hey, thanks for that list!
Yeah, it’s not exactly rocket science. There’s more tech, big companies, and simply, more money in the Bay Area. More money equals more expensive, sophisticated restaurants.
Did they have wine and/or other alcohol on offer at this Yu Bo pop up?
If not, did you FTCers who went bring your own bottles? Good opportunities for sure with wine and sake in the future!
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I believe they offered a wine pairing that came with 4 wine that went with 4 of the spicier courses. Somebody brought in their own tea as well.
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If it were that simple, the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara area would have more expensive, sophisticated restaurants than the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont area, since from the 53rd to 98th percentile the South Bay has significantly higher incomes.
Seems to me the most likely sources of the disparity are SF having more tourists, gastrotourists, Michelin-star bean-counter tourists, and expense accounts.
SF is a metropolitan city, people living in the Peninsula and South Bay go there to eat at restaurants. San Jose is more of a gigantic suburb, that’s why the people living there bring their money to SF. The way the Bay Area works is people living in all areas go to SF to eat because it is the “big city”. Anyone from the Bay Area knows this. Also, why is the East Bay grouped with SF in your income stat? That skews it much lower…anyone here knows Fremont has nothing to do with SF…you either have no knowledge of the Bay Area or you are simply trying to argue for no reason.
Though the two most expensive restaurants in the Bay are in Santa Clara county–Baume and Hiroshi. That’s not including Manresa, either.
@sffood @robert I think we strayed a touch too far from the topic at hand at this point. Let’s just go from agree to disagree and leave it at that…
Appreciate the discussion though.
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I, for one, enjoyed this exhibition google-fu match.
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I’ve thought it was quite interesting and I learned things (which always makes me happy).
The Peninsula and South Bay are where most of the good Chinese restaurants are. That’s because, as in the SGV, there’s a high concentration of Chinese customers. There’s little or no reason for anyone who lives there to go to SF for Chinese food.
That’s a modern phenomenon. Up through the 80s, lots of suburban Chinese families would go to SF Chinatown on the weekends to shop and eat. Some Chinatown merchants blamed the decline on the freeway being demolished after the 1989 quake, but it was really due to the proliferation of Chinese supermakets, restaurants, and malls in the burbs.
Great write up and pics! Thank you!
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@chewchow are you going to any of the Yu Bo dinner? I would love to get your thoughts!
He’s doing s lunch at Majordomo this Sunday
the flagging of this post is bullshit
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agreed, i saw nothing on that post that suggested he was being a dick. he also got back on topic in the second paragraph.
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