It's hot! Where do you like to go during the rare Bay Area heatwave?

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I am thinking about eateries in malls, museums and hotels. Eat, and then do something else under the same roof:

Silk Road -- Central Asian Cuisine in a Shopping Mall Foood Court? [SF Stonestown]

Steam table Uyghur anyone? Yelp seems to be maintaining its new restaurants listing after all (scuttlebutt was that they were phasing out this feature) and the listing that caught my eye was for Silk Road in the Stonestown Mall Food Court. According to Yelp reviews, the owner is from Kyrgyzstan (which borders Kazakhstan and Xinjiang) and the food appears to include Uyghur classics. Per Yelp reviews and pics, offerings include laghman (“lagman souce” and “home-cooked noodles” are separate item…

Kin Khao in Parc 55 Hotel

Koi Palace, then Serramonte Center

Din Tai Fung, Valley Fair

Opening date is now spring 2016. Previously the opening date was to be winter 2015. Maybe they are trying to beat Koi Palace Milpitas’ record of delayed opening.

In Situ, then a little culture at the MOMA afterwards.

In Situ, SF MOMA: Context Matters

In Situ is one of one of the city’s most anticipated openings, right up there with the revamped SF MOMA where it is housed. After a recent lunch there, I think the museum setting is perfectly fitting, and it’s also perhaps the exclusive context in which such a restaurant can exist. The concept at SF MOMA’s new “exhibition restaurant” is unique. Unlike Restaurant Ikarus in Salzburg, where international guest chefs are invited to present their menus for a month at a time, In Situ features facsi…

MY China in Westfield, with the caveat of recent downhill alert

Chandavkl's Downhill Alert on M. Y. China? (SF)

Chandavkl has quite a bit to say about Chinese fine dining in SF.

LOL we were originally going to our old Father’s Day standby Panda Dumpling in San Carlos. When we called and inquired about potential wait, the server said, ‘no its pretty empty right now because its pretty hot inside’. Changed our plans immediately. Sorry, Panda.

And no wood fire pizza places unless they really crank up the AC.