In case you aren't familiar, Pink Zebra is a “Mediterrasian perma-pop-up" that popped up last year inside Tao Yin restaurant in the Mission. Its chef, Jesse Koide, cut his teeth in the kitchen at Mission Chinese Food, and he opened Pink Zebra inside someone else's kitchen and established restaurant the same way Mission Chinese opened in the now former Lung Shan. Given all that hipster cred, it stands to reason that Koide would be tapped for Vice's ongoing Munchies video series (previous participants have included Dominique Crenn and State Bird chefs Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinksi). Watch as he and his wife Angela, his pal Riley, and his sushi chef Ryo head out on the town to House of Prime Rib, The Alembic, and to the Lone Palm. And, Koide notes of House of Prime Rib, "I always forget to ask about the fish [on the menu]. I've never seen anyone order it."

"Have you guys seen some of these episodes?" asks Benu chef Corey Lee when chef Daniel Patterson and his wife Alexandra make their first stop on a Vice tour at his restaurant. "You guys should be totally f**ked up by now!" But, Patterson's tour of the city is a little less debaucherous than some of the other Vice Munchies segments.

Watch as he and Alexandra, along with two of his business partners Ryan Ma and Jeff Sarver, have drinks at Patterson's other S.F. restaurant Alta CA, where they meet up with Scribe vintner Andrew Mariani and they all head together to Kin Khao for some Thai food. And more cocktails. Then they head back to Oakland to Patterson's former restaurant Plum, which recently underwent a makeover as a Japanese restaurant that's now called Ume.

Also, there's some pretty food porn at the beginning of the video showing dishes being plated at Patterson's flagship Coi, which we were just talking about yesterday in relation to their new ticketing system.

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Previously: Go Eat This: Yum Yai Salad At Kin Khao
Watch The State Bird Provisions Chefs Go On A Food And Booze Crawl With Vice

We loved that debaucherous, totally envy-inducing night in which Vice took the State Bird Provisions crew, and some of their friends, out to Ramen Shop and back to the city to drink and then back to the restaurant for 3 a.m. curry. Now the Munchies series is back with a girl-power video starring Atelier Crenn chef and all around hottie Dominique Crenn, and featuring Bar Tartine co-chef Cortney Burns. Also along for the ride is Crenn's friend Mika Takeuchi,

First, the trio goes to Rich Table and eats a feast. Then they head to Gourmet & More around the corner in Hayes Valley, which Crenn says reminds her of her childhood with all the cheeses and French sodas and macarons. Then—though this isn't as debaucherous an affair as the previous video—the ladies go downtown to Trou Normand and sip on some Calvados cocktails — Crenn is actually from France, so this is a fitting stop.

In case you missed it when it arrived on the web scene last year, VICE Magazine went inside North Korea and did a 3-part series in which head bad boy Shane Smith took a cameraman pal inside the DMZ and as deep into the country as they were permitted to go (after the jump, CBS's Early Show had Shane on to comment this morning). At one point in Part 2 of the series shown here, Shane makes the prescient observations that "these are some serious, serious dudes." Shooting willy-nilly whenever they got the chance, Shane and his pal were, like Euna Lee and Laura Ling, threatened with being charged with "grave acts against the republic," (around 9:30) but in Shane's case, he's really too drunk and too entitled to take them seriously. If only North Korea had chosen this moment, 16 months or so ago, to nab a couple of American North American journalists in a political stand-off.

In a relatively affordable act of civic duty and nostalgia, we've just subscribed to the print edition of the , "The Voice of the West."

Our first day's paper arrived this morning, and what a thrill it was to put on our slippers and go down to the sidewalk to fetch it, just like we've seen people do in the movies.

Of course, we turned right to the serious stuff: "Obama's Gamble on Geithner Bank Fix," an analysis of recent economic developments. But the story turned tawdry in its final paragraphs on page A16. The Obama administration, it seems, is caught "in a vice."

Whoa! This takes us back to the Clinton administration!

Since SFist's content is rigorously screened by a small army of sharp-eyed and union-wage-earning proofreaders, we feel authorized to mock the spelling, grammar, and word-choice "vices" of other publications.

As Merriam-Webster tells us:

VICE (noun): moral depravity or corruption. [We see that both the Clinton and Bush administrations are covered.]

VISE (noun): any of various tools for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam.

Note that -- surprisingly -- only one of these terms is etymologically related to the word "screw."

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