From the monthly archives: August 2018
I’m obsessed with this burger.
A proud eater of any kind of dumplings — wontons, gyoza, shu mai, jiaozi — I love the idea of turning the standard filling for many of these Asian dumplings into a burger. I first read about it on the fabulous recipe-testing food blog, Food Gal, when she tested […]
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Growing up in Hawaii, we didn’t have a lot of ramen since saimin was the soup noodles for locals. But when it came to getting noodles at a Japanese restaurant, I was all over udon, the wheat noodles thick like worms that wiggled into my tummy in a comforting way.
Today, of course, ramen is […]
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PALO ALTO, Calif.
The latest ramen fascination is centered off University Avenue in Palo Alto where ramen lovers have been checking out nearly two-month-old Ramen Nagi.
The location is the first spot in the United States for the Japanese chain from Chef Satoshi Ikuta, who started Ramen Nagi in 2004 and has expanded to […]
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This is probably not the first time you’ve seen a whole roasted cauliflower dish. I’d say restaurants have been doing it for the last five years.
Lately I’ve been seeing a second wave of interest in whole roasted cauliflower, this time from a lot of home cooks on Instagram. I’m a big fan of cauliflower, […]
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More and more, people are discovering matcha.
This popular green tea from Japan comes in powder from, typically when the tea leaves are grounded in a stonemill. Thus the aptly named Stonemill Matcha, a new San Francisco cafe that’s bringing premium shade-grown matcha from Kyoto, Japan.
But Stonemill […]
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