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Here we begin the chronicling of the Brawn & Fervor experience through articles and media sound bites. These articles, collected throughout an ongoing and exhaustive research project, are the history of Brawn & Fervor.

In 1999, Wendy Chamberlain was an SF girl. Hired to research and describe the ins and outs of life in the streets and bars of San Francisco, she doggedly pursued the essence of all that made the city experience a moving one. When this non-paying gig led her to relocate to New York, she began the transformation that eventually led to her becoming NYGirl.

Here, before you are the early reports that flowed in from across the nation to the SFGirl site, describing, as it happened, the birth of Brawn & Fervor.
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Osha Thai Noodle Cafe

Osha Thai Noodle Café has the best Pad Thai in the city and I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. Find a Thai restaurant that serves a better Pad Thai for under 6 bucks and dinner's on me. Bonus points if it's in my neighborhood. What is it about their Pad Thai that rocks my world? My Pad Thai connoisseur friend Joey would tell you that it's those delectable noodles, her equally discerning husband might say that it's the lovingly prepared peanut sauce. My opinion is it's all that and more.

How can you describe an ambrosia such as this? Go try it for yourself. Now, I'm going to write about a dish that isn't Pad Thai, and I know a good percentage of readers will lose interest at this point, so for all of you who think Thai means Pad Thai, just go ahead and skip to the next paragraph. Osha also has a good Panang Curry, which I'm forced to order because they don't have Yellow Curry Chicken, (which is my favorite and I require a weekly fix of). Perhaps someone could explain to me why they don't have Yellow Curry Chicken when every other Thai place in the city does, but my god, their Pad Thai more than makes up for it. Actually, Panang Curry, to my western taste buds, doesn't taste a whole hell of a lot different than Yellow Curry Chicken. It just doesn't have those mouth-watering curry-saturated potatoes.

Other good things about Osha: they stay open very, very late, and this probably more than anything makes Osha a popular destination. They are open to something like 3am every night (as you can tell I'm not so good at research). Their menu is very well-designed, and I've got to say that well-designed menus score a lot of points with me (as do well-designed signs, please see my last review. They also play some funky-ass techno music. Osha is conveniently located at the corner of Geary and Leavenworth, easily accessible by the 27 and 38, and the 2, 3, and 4 lines are just a block up.

(On the subject of Thai food, if you want really tasty Chicken Satay served over rice and smothered in coconut marinade and peanut sauce, go to the Thai place at Rincon Center for lunch some day. For a while there, when I was eating it twice a week, I was absolutely convinced they were putting some sort of addictive drug in the peanut sauce. I literally could not go three days without the stuff.)

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