The San Francisco Bay Area is often an incubator of trends, so I'm surprised with the large Asian population the Japanese izakaya has largely passed us by.
These pubs are known to serve beer, sake...
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Short of giving you the shell, (which I'm sure they might if you really wanted it), the folks at Haru Ulala don't mess around when it comes to not wasting any part of the animal. The other night, I got an order of their conch sashimi, an item that I'd been dying to try after seeing the owner, a sweet older Japanese lady, crack 'em open time after time with such great skill.
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As much as people are closed-minded about trying other culture's cuisines, there sure seem to be as many similarities between the foods of different cultures as there are differences. I've met Mexican people that don't eat Chinese food 'cause it's strange and vice versa. My friend's Korean mom won't eat Italian food, why? Not because she's ever had it, but just because.
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More Fun (But More Confusing) Than Shoe Shopping: Izakaya Haru Ulala
I love variety. It's so much more fun having lotsa kindsa things to choose from...shoes, earrings, fobby stationery, colored pens, FOOD! On the food tip, I think I got the must-have-different-kinds-of-foods-to-eat syndrome from growing up in a Chinese family where every meal consisted of not just one, but several different dishes. Don't get me wrong, I do think alot of one-pot meals are mmm-mmm-good, but I'll take a bunch of different, smaller plates over that any day. That's why small plates restaurants and I get along so well. Tapas, dim sum, izakaya...anything where I can afford to try a little of this and a little of that usually floats my boat. My latest small plates find is of the izakaya, or Japanese bar food, type--one that I've patronized twice, yes twice, in the last week. Read on.
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