If you can't commit to the over-the-top drag dinner theater of Teatro ZinZanni, visit Asia SF to admire its gender illusionists. Unlike drag queens, these svelte odalisques in low-cut evening gowns try to look convincingly female. On the hour, they perform lip-synch revues on top of the bar. The vaguely Asian decor includes rice-paper lanterns and shoji screens that shift from pink to gold....
AsiaSF Restaurant Review:
It takes seriously good food to keep your attention at AsiaSF, what with everything else going on. For one thing, the décor is outrageous, a sort of Asia-meets-the-Jetsons motif. Luminous shoji screens slowly change colors against two walls, while a sparse bamboo forest is set in front of another wall. Did we mention the waitresses? Every last one of them is an Asian male in drag. They're...
Holy Asian gender bender! Like Lucky Cheng’s sans the kitsch. Bachelorette parties and creepy middle-aged dudes gawking at supple, well-endowed waitstaff doing double duty as lip-syncing pop stars atop the bar on the hour. Food’s decent, too: tamarind chicken satays, baby back pork ribs, sake-steamed mussels, chicks with d@!%s. Wine Spectator award–winning wine list, even. Not cheap, but the...
Pan-Asian dishes along with transgender fun at SoMa's premier spot for a girls night out.:
The Scene
The party never stops at this only-in-San Francisco supper club, where the ""ladies"" (gender illusionists) flirt while they deliver big, colorful cocktails, then appear on the...