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I am a perpetually hungry twenty-something journalist, born and raised in Menlo Park and currently working at the Palo Alto Weekly as education and youth staff writer. I graduated from USC with a major in Spanish and a minor in journalism. Though my first love is journalism, food is a close second. I am constantly on the lookout for new restaurants to try, building an ever-expanding "to eat" list. As a journalist, I'm always trolling news sources and social media websites with an eye for local food news, from restaurant openings and closings to emerging food trends. When I was a teenager growing up in Menlo Park, I always drove up to the city on weekends with the singular purpose of finding a better meal than I could at home. But in the past year or so, the Peninsula's food culture has been totally transformed, with many new restaurants opening and a continuous stream of San Francisco restaurants coming south to open Peninsula outposts. Don't navigate this food boom hungry and alone! Feed me your tips on new chefs and eats and together we'll share them with the broader community.
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A franchise of Chinese dessert chain SweetHoney has opened in downtown Mountain View.
SweetHoney opened at 841 Villa St., the former home of Korean restaurants
Song Pa and Totoro, in late April.
SweetHoney serves a range of "Hong Kong-style" sweet and savory desserts that are unusual for the Midpeninsula, like red bean tofu pudding, durian pancakes and toddy palm jelly.
Menu items are listed in both Chinese and English (and thankfully, with photos).
Red beans and grass jelly, topped with green tea ice cream pictured on the SweetHoney Dessert Dublin's Instagram page.
There are more than 600 SweetHoney locations in China, Southeast Asia and Australia alone. Locally, there are outposts in Colma City, San Leandro and Dublin with a dozen more promised for California.
SweetHoney Mountain View is open Tuesday-Sunday, 3-11 p.m. on weekdays and until midnight on Friday and Saturdays.
