home away from home.

stopped by the new and improved westfield shopping center in downtown SF, and i gotta say....wow. it reminds me of asia in a lot of ways - large, bright open concept mall, with a big proper food court and grocery downstairs. i'm happy to see stores like metropark, vans, lids, border's (a bookstore is always nice to have in a mall...a place to chill out), the french bakery upstairs (the name escapes me, but it's the same one on santana row next to straits cafe), straits cafe, out the door...

bloomingdale's men's also looks promising. i'm in full-on save $$$ mode right now so i didn't want to risk going in.

oh, and i'm looking forward to trying wichcraft someday. food network's been pimping tom collichio for ages.

it's nice to see that the higher-end stores are moving over to the new mall, and the rest is staying in the old mall - one of the things i always hated about the SF shopping center was the teenybopper appeal. walking in and out of the place was always a chore, with all of the fools loitering around outside.

so, taking all of that together, with all the rich indos running around with their gucci handbags, and the asian kids gangsta squatting outside the mall and smoking, it's just like being in taiwan or singapore.

ah, home.