{"id":3441,"date":"2012-04-20T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2012-04-20T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T04:25:00","slug":"sam-wo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=3441","title":{"rendered":"Sam Wo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing through Google News stories tonight, I spotted an article called\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/news\/story\/2012-04-20\/San-Francisco-restaurant-known-for-rudest-waiter-closing\/54446238\/1\">San Francisco restaurant known for &#8216;rudest waiter&#8217; closing<\/a>.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0Much to my surprise, as soon as I clicked on the link, I thought, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=63\">We&#8217;ve eaten there<\/a>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I confirmed my suspicion by checking Google Street View, with which you can take an inside tour. \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?q=sam+wo&amp;ll=37.79494,-122.406803&amp;spn=0.006977,0.00839&amp;sll=37.795041999999995,-122.40673199999999&amp;layer=c&amp;cid=3657634039439433211&amp;panoid=DmiSsUtsbbg0VeA6OwLfcg&amp;cbp=13,300.5,,0,-58.05&amp;hq=sam+wo&amp;t=m&amp;z=17&amp;cbll=37.795009,-122.40673\">Here&#8217;s a view of the sign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t know about the restaurant&#8217;s legacy when we went. \u00c2\u00a0The rudest waiter even has his own <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sam_wo\">Wikipedia page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the restaurant might have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2012\/04\/20\/BAJH1O73B6.DTL\">a second chance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been talking a lot about how to choose good restaurants lately, since Berck&#8217;s favorite economist <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">blogger<\/a> has just published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/An-Economist-Gets-Lunch-Everyday\/dp\/0525952667\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1334981766&amp;sr=8-1\">book<\/a> on the subject. \u00c2\u00a0In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/05\/six-rules-for-dining-out\/8929\/?single_page=true\">article<\/a> he wrote on how to pick a good place to eat, he explains the why about things that we already knew.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s getting easier to find gems with reviews about everything on the Internet and sites like Yelp and Urbanspoon, which are conveniently aggregated under Google Maps. \u00c2\u00a0But it&#8217;s always fun to just walk around and find a good spot.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how we found Sam Wo and had a meal we&#8217;ve remembered ever since.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/samwo-restaurant.com\/images\/Outside_Building.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing through Google News stories tonight, I spotted an article called\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;San Francisco restaurant known for &#8216;rudest waiter&#8217; closing.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0Much to my surprise, as soon as I clicked on the link, I thought, &#8220;We&#8217;ve eaten there!&#8221; I confirmed my suspicion by checking Google Street View, with which you can take an inside tour. \u00c2\u00a0Here&#8217;s a view&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonclassified-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}