Panda Express

Berkeley’s beloved food scene is set to take on yet another familiar dish: cookies. Both Crumbl Cookies and Insomnia Cookies are opening their first stores in the East Bay neighborhood just a couple of hundred feet apart on Bancroft Way.

A new Panda Express location is expected to open on Bancroft Way, between Bowditch St and Telegraph Ave, in the spring or summer of 2023, according to Panda Express Area Coach of Operations Kenny Huang.

The idea of living so far from home is completely new (and very scary) territory for me. I had it easier than most incoming freshmen at UC Berkeley: I grew up only an hour away.

Whether it’s in the STEM fields or the humanities, UC Berkeley’s size and funding means that there’s almost certainly someone here on campus researching something you’re interested in.

Ippudo, the chain restaurant brainchild of “Ramen King” Shigemi Kawahara, will open July 28 at its new Berkeley location, on 2015 Shattuck Ave.

I segued back into my former omnivore lifestyle with a pescatarian diet. After a few days, I moved past seafood. At first it was easy; I could detach myself from the animal. But then it wasn’t. As silly as it seemed, my meaty meals challenged my moral premise. I often woke up full, more from shame than from the meat itself. If I ate seafood the night before, I spent my mornings considering the water pollution offset by overfishing and farming fish. On a more emotional level, I thought about the fish and their fish lives, drifting in water only to be caught and eaten. I thought about what made me entitled to eating another sentient being. What was it about being human? Did my willpower snap in half under the weight of what others told me was simply natural for me to engage in?