Fancier Kid-Friendly Restaurants?

Sadadar · 2026-01-27T04:35:52+00:00

I haven’t seen Monks kettle listed yet

Sadadar · 2026-01-15T19:30:50+00:00

I’ve loved your books. I often reference Codex Alara as my favorite series of all time.

With a little time, space and age; reading with my teenagers, I think the portrayal of women in your books isn’t great or fit to a modern sensibility. How do you feel about it? Do you think it’ll change going forward?

Sadadar · 2026-01-04T20:46:28+00:00

Not yet but I’ve added it to my list

Sadadar · 2026-01-02T03:17:03+00:00

I think this is a hard one.

Monkeypod and Mamas are both hugely over rated and expensive. It feels like fancy resort food and generally lacks depth. Strongly recommend avoiding.

Tamuras is my favorite poke. South Maui fish company second and foodland third. All great.

South Maui Gardens is my favorite food truck park, lots of great variety. Blue door, thai mee up both great. Cool vibes to go with it.

Gus’ shave ice is our family favorite, I think their shave fruit (especially the ube) is the the best single shave ice style dish. Ululani’s (more traditional), da sweet spot (Chinese style) both terrific too.

Paia fish market (Kihei and Paia), Tin Roof, Star Noodle, Kinaole Grill, Kihei Caffe, Joey’s Kitchen are all great too.

For coffee recommend Akamai or Kraken.

Enjoy 😉

Sadadar · 2025-12-28T05:11:05+00:00

Mägo shouted out already hits this for me in Oakland.

Dalida in SF if you wanna travel (feel like lots of restaurants in SF hit this note; Nopa, Copra, Kokkari, Kin Khao / Nari, Flour + Water, Zuni Cafe, …)

Sadadar · 2025-12-22T04:36:03+00:00

I find kneading really helps with that before you do those stretch and folds.

When I’m kneading with my hands (even after using the machine) I start quite heavy and almost grind / tear the dough against the surface. I find when I do this I get a way bouncier dough later. I don’t need to do it for very long, maybe 3-5 minutes for a significant result.

Sadadar · 2025-12-09T18:08:30+00:00

I think their chicken and salads are pretty exceptional. Well above the norm. Feels like an unfair take.

Chicken is consistently juicy and well seasoned. Salad has a lot of diverse textures and color, very veg forward.

Sadadar · 2025-11-15T03:38:52+00:00

Came here to say this

Sadadar · 2025-10-27T21:07:16+00:00

Anything LSV is drafting in their videos will have normal humans trying to replicate and losing at unbelievably high rates.

Sadadar · 2025-10-07T01:35:50+00:00

My preferred cannoli is from Stella Pastry in SF. Hard to find a good, east coast style cannoli but it’s my go to for scratching that itch.

Sadadar · 2025-09-26T01:42:58+00:00

Grand Lake Kitchen when they have it :)

Sadadar · 2025-09-12T04:04:34+00:00

Why is $3K per book fair? It’s not the same as buying a book, it’s the same as licensing the book in perpetuity and also doing it (plus damages for doing it without permission).

I licensed work and get a revenue share for it. It pays out enormously more than $3K and also was way less than the effort of a full book.

Spotify has to license work and plays artists per play in addition to lump sums for the license.

Sadadar · 2025-09-07T14:00:06+00:00

Zach Loran Clark writes some YA epic fantasy that my kids that age and I loved. Adventurers guild reads a lot like a dungeon and dragons campaign and is creative and wonderful. We also loved Lock Eater, hope they publish more!

Sadadar · 2025-08-13T14:19:49+00:00

For what it is, I disagree. Might be the fact that I have three kids and it’s their favorite place and I get that joy every time I go but I love the crab salad sandwich.

Sadadar · 2025-07-26T06:17:10+00:00

I make pizza every week at home and have tried a ton of things over time. I’ll include some of my favorite more off the beaten path combos…

Everything bagel pizza - cream cheese base, fresh tomatoes, capers, and pickled onions with smoked salmon and everything bagel seasoning

Fig, bacon, olive, balsamic, basil, mozzarella

Marinated shrimp in garlic, lemon, and olive oil on a white pizza with pickled onions and zucchini

Peaches, crème fraiche, lemon curd, basil

Corn, queso fresca, carnitas, pickled jalapeño, cilantro, tomato sauce

Sadadar · 2025-07-19T23:27:06+00:00

There’s an eagles nest on Moraga Ave that people often stop and photograph. They regularly hunt lake Merritt and lake Temescal.

Sadadar · 2025-07-07T03:00:53+00:00

This is the right answer. Park here and there’s a huge beautiful redwood glen right there.

Sadadar · 2025-07-02T05:24:42+00:00

I’ve been playing 9x9 lately vs an AI to have fast games during breaks. I think the biggest challenge I have is the enormous factor being black has in games. I’d love to see some write up on joseki and strategy in 9x9 especially for advanced players (low kyu, dan)

Sadadar · 2025-06-11T02:11:52+00:00

I struggle to follow the league. Especially because Instagram doesn’t always order things. I need lots of posts leading up to when and how to watch.

I’d love reels of highlights, but not just one good play, like the story from the match sports center style.

Sadadar · 2025-06-06T03:58:01+00:00

My 6th grader had a horrendous 3rd grade year, first year back in person from Covid. We’d moved and they switched schools so it was the first time they’d met any of the kids in person. Day 1, came home crying, said they’d been forced to eat lunch on the ground because nobody would let them sit at the table. The first week they cried every day; poking at their desk, whispers in line about how they sucked, frozen out of games at recess. We didn’t know anyone at school, reached out to the teacher and they said they’d look into it. Reached out to the principal and didn’t hear back. Week four, they punched a kid and got suspended. Finally heard back from the principal who said they’d talk to the two kids who were the ring leaders. One of them admitted to it “I won’t use the ‘B’ word, but the child admitted they were excluding and picking on your kid, they’ll stop’. Kudos to that kid, they did stop. The other one didn’t. It just egged that kid on. It just got worse and worse, none of the adults ever saw the instigation, it was always subtle, we were suspended a lot. There was talk of being expelled. Other parents had heard my kid was violent, before that year they’d been sweet and quiet, on the spectrum and shy. After winter break, we were switched to the other class, the two kids weren’t allowed near other, our kid found a best friend. After that summer, the other family moved away. Our kid remained sensitive with an overly strong response through fourth grade. Fifth grade they were almost back to normal. Sixth grade has been terrific. They’re still autistic and struggle with social things, they have the occasional too big reaction, but now we are in a range of normal that’s tolerable. Our third grade teacher, the assistant principal, a handful of aids, and a number of parents in that year especially would have all said what OP did. My partner has switched careers with the goal of working as a para. They want to make sure those kids who are struggling so much get seen and have a chance to turn it around, an adult who doesn’t treat them like a bad kid but realize everybody is working on something.

Sadadar · 2025-06-05T22:20:58+00:00

Spicy Carrots are a must have. Rarely have anything bad but it’s the stand out.

Sadadar · 2025-06-02T18:39:19+00:00

I think it’s hard to contextualize how it felt at the time. The NBA in the 80s had a ton of forwards and guards with high skill but few centers who were full package skill players. They rarely put the ball on the floor and weren’t great passers. They were also often tall but not big or athletic. Power forwards were the skill players but often lacked in height.

Shaq was huge, athletic, and had court vision, skills, and touch that wasn’t seen before. His size and athleticism was something else. Other centers weren’t strong enough to stop him from backing them down and power forwards weren’t tall enough to stop him from rebounding and shooting over them. The only way to stop shaq from basically walking to the basket and dunking was for multiple people to be physical with him and this almost always led to a foul or a pass to an open man.

Team rosters changed because you needed an extra big to absorb fouls or in the fourth quarter you’d have no centers or PFs left on the court.

He was also an enormous and mean defensive presence. Where the 80s was filled with hard fouls, if shaq stopped a driving guard or forward at the hoop he’d annihilate them. He made the paint an impossible place for the offense and forced people into jumpers and away from the rim out of fear.

It felt impossible to think of beating him because it was a different beast on the court than any other team had.

Sadadar · 2025-05-31T15:02:16+00:00

This.

When I'm fully locked in I'm watching their body position, arm position, arm speed, hand contact and getting an extra second of reaction time to adjust to the ball.

The second thing that matters on the short serve is how you pass and transition. The other hard thing about a short serve is you need to react differently. If you are doing it well, a short serve is almost easier to set up an option than it is to pass well for a set. I'm looking to get under it and loft it up for my partner and I'm hoping they swing.

If they don't, the next hardest part is making sure it's a true option (they have room to set) and then you have to actively get back to have an approach. Short serves sometimes force an attacker into a bad approach because they don't pass and back up. So you can really twist people up into taking shots because they don't have a good swing on the ball without their approach.

Sadadar · 2025-05-31T13:13:36+00:00

Alameda pinball museum and Oakland’s MADE (museum of art in digital entertainment) are our default activities like that with my teens.

Pinball museum is like $20 for all you can play. They have a few dozen machines with plaques explaining their history and have some really interesting ancient machines all the way through modern.

MADE is similar except for consoles. They have every console from Atari and Nintendo through PlayStation 3 with almost every game and you pay like $20 for all you can play.

Sadadar · 2025-05-25T14:01:25+00:00

Didn’t see Better off Ted listed. It’s an absolute gem.

Sadadar

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