Note: The 2010 scavenger hunt is over (a concluding post will come soon) and we got first place out of 121 teams! This is a series explaining the background and thinking of our missions of the SF Street Food Scavenger Hunt 2010!

What does it mean when I am not available? I send my other team minions! Usually for the hunt, I took it upon myself to do most of the photo/video mission, assuming that others certainly don’t want to embarrass themselves. Bust most importantly to assert my creative vision. Ok, so I have some superiority issues! But like in any field, when you can trust your team members to do the job, you may be extraordinarily surprised!

There were two missions that I couldn’t do:
1. Visit the booth for Sukhi’s. I had tried calling them asking when they would be available. Unfortunately, I couldn’t make it to the Jack London Square Farmer’s Market…and how would I have known to do that mission if I couldn’t be there. Rather we were busy eating this. And not to mention, wasn’t that a difficult mission? To send us all the way there when we were only notified barely 24 hours in advance? I wanted to see my parents, grandparents and my sister who was just visiting for one week—who I hadn’t seen for more than 8 months! That’s disrespectful, but hey all in good fun.

So our dear lovely team member took it upon herself to purchase a frozen dinner from Sukhi’s.

Grocery stores (*cough*) aren’t exactly friendly to people taking pictures. So I give many props to Cynthia for pulling this off!

And of course…a drum circle. I don’t know what the original prompt was, but it was to go to Revolution Cafe and make a drum circle. Extra points if you get others involved.

And Cynthia, Jeff, and Chris did…while I was wittling away at work. Chris bought all his drum sticks—expensive ones—from his Rock Band collection. As I heard, Chris and Cynthia practiced a drum beat on the caltrain, but basically tossed it aside when they arrived at the destination, which happened to be around the corner from where I live. The music was too loud.

Of course, as seen in the video…many people were completely stoned. And they were more than happy to participate in a random drum ordeal!

Cynthia got excited and turned the camera on its side thus the orientation switching in the middle of the recording!

Good job, team!