Burma Superstar, Clement St. and art in SF.

The other day my lovely friend, Susan and I went to The City for an art date. We do this several times a year usually taking in special exhibits at the De Young and the Legion of Honor both in the same day. We drive up highway 1 to 35 to the Great Highway, it's a beautiful, stress free drive.

Both museums honor the same ticket which is great. Last week we saw the Botticelli to Braque exhibit from the national galleries in Scotland.

At the Legion we enjoyed the High Fashion exhibit from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection.

Susan had a recommendation for our lunch spot, half way through our day we are ready to sit and rejuvenate. Burma Superstar was the perfect place.

It was between our two museums on Clement St. and lucky for us it wasn't crowded when we arrived about noon. The decor is unassuming but easy on the eyes. The waitstaff efficent and pleasant. I knew I would be happy here when I discovered their house special tea was an rose tea, just tiny rosebuds in a pot.

We ordered samusas as an appetizer, similar to the Indian samosas, they were stuffed with a nice potato filling, wrapped in a thin wonton like skin and deep fried. They paired well with my rainbow salad, which you can see in the right of the photo below.

I wish I had been quicker to photograph my salad. It has 22 ingredients, including four kinds of noodles and a tamarind dressing.The plate comes to your table with many little piles of ingredients and the server tosses it, as you watch. It was light, crunchy and full of interesting flavors.

Susan had the lunch special, a tea leaf salad and samusa soup. That's right they put samusas in a light broth for an satisfying and very unusual soup.

After lunch we were delighted to find that Clement Street is full of interesting places to window shop, Asian markets and eateries, cool bookshops and more. We found it so interesting we agreed to come back this summer just to explore more, hopefully another lunch at Burma Superstar.

As we left Santa Cruz that morning, Susan's husband Steiny had one word for us : "Schubert's". It's a bakery that's been around since 1911, just down the street from Burma Superstar. Luckily our lunch was light enough we could indulge in one of their famous mousse cakes, the small ones, of course.

 It took us a while to choose...as you can see it was a feast for the eyes as well.
We both brought home treats for the husbands, as well :-)

We both agreed it was a very successful day, feeding all our senses.