1. Not all of San Francisco looks like this. But this is the Tenderloin district and it goes for blocks and blocks.

2. One of Michael Edelstein's favorite vegetarian restaurants, the Golden Era, is in the middle of this and before the lockdown, we would eat there about once a month. The guy can put down rice and greens.

 I order "The Queen," which is soy "chicken" carmelized in chili soy sauce embedded on spinach.