Down South an Hour or So

Howdy people interested in Austin. I'll admit I've jumped ship and started a blog about San Antonio. I think most of the people in Austin know that there's usually junk to do in Austin but I haven't come across a blog dedicated to San Antonio the way I have other cities. Everyone knows that Austin is a pretty cool place and it's not hard to find something around the corner. My boyfriend's coworkers usually sigh with boredom over having to go to San Antonio because there's nothing to do when he and I manage to always find something to do. Also, I love San Antonio.

#13: Specialties

I was in San Antonio not too long ago and I found myself craving bubble tea from Tong's Thai - the 1st place in San Antonio to ever sell bubble tea. In particular, I was craving their Thai-Grrr drink which is an awesome combination of mango, papaya, and coconut milk. Aside from making it yourself, really, the only place you can get it is Tong's Thai.

This is an Austin blog, so mirroring this "I can only get this here" theme in Austin is Short 'n Sweet's Kurazzee drink (Crazy). Probably the craziest thing about this drink is how it's a mixture of puddings, jellies, and tapioca floating around in some kind of refreshing...tea? juice? I hear it's winter melon juice. Anyway, the moral of this story is, if you ever go to a restaurant or cafe, get their special. Seriously, they're good at making it, and they like making it (isn't that the definition of a specialty?) Among other things, if you can only get your certain something at a specific place, they don't want to be remembered for being screw ups (especially on something they claim to be good at.)borrowed from yelp

#2: Discomfort

I recall approximately six years ago there being an article in the San Antonio Express News about Twin Sisters Bakery and Cafe being a restaurant that belonged in Austin.

- you see, even us San Antonians can feel when something wandered onto the wrong side of the tracks -

What is it about Twin Sisters that made it so Austin like? Sweet potato muffins, the chocolate zucchini cake, and the short lived beet cake. It's healthy. It's healthy all over. Their zucchini cake consists mostly of zucchini by weight!

Austin provides a very different atmosphere from San Antonio. Everything boasts being organic, eco-friendly, and healthy. Despite that, coming from an emerging foodie, Twin Sisters really belongs to San Antonio for one reason: Twin Sisters hasn't sacrificed taste.

Things in San Antonio just taste better. It's currently 1:38AM and I know two places in San Antonio where I can get a good chicken fried steak. Austin? 0. In Austin, I'd have to resign myself to eating some kind of vegetarian taco or over priced burger, both of which I find very irritating. Austin lacks comfort food. Being organic, and healthy just doesn't compensate for a lack of taste. Twin Sisters can make that compromise in San Antonio, and it has to because the competition in San Antonio dictates, if a place has nothing that tastes good - it goes out of business.

Twin Sisters Bakery and Cafe (San Antonio)

Star Seeds Cafe (Austin) Has a chicken fried steak, but some of the meals here taste like TV dinners, and by some, I mean the meatloaf. Try at your own discretion.