THE GOCHISO GOURMET: Goin’ to the Hukilau
December 10, 2009 by Leave a Comment
While the Bay Area clan was visiting during the Thanksgiving holiday, we accompanied them on requisite trips to several local restaurants and the main shopping trip to Ala Moana Center… four-plus hours at Ala Moana. And this was already on top of several hours spent previously by the family on Black Friday (gift shopping should NEVER […]
Hawai‘i Five-O: Five Days on Oahu
December 3, 2009 by Leave a Comment
This November, I attended the destination wedding of a college friend in Hawai‘i. The couple — who reside in L.A. — had guests from across the United States and Japan, so one couldn’t exactly blame them for choosing Honolulu — a well-connected midway point — for their important day. That said, traveling for a wedding […]
THE GOCHISO GOURMET: Offal isn’t Awful
November 26, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines offal as: 1: the waste or by-product of a process: as a: trimmings of a hide b: the by-products of milling used especially for stock feeds c: the viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal removed in dressing: variety meat 2: rubbish I love definition No. 2. It really doesn’t make it […]
THE GOCHISO GOURMET: Pigs and Pinot
November 12, 2009 by Leave a Comment
We barely had time to catch a couple of winks aboard Northwest Airlines’ red-eye flight out of Honolulu before touching down at SFO and heading straight to the Ferry Building Marketplace and the Saturday Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. Why the rush to go grocery shopping? To find the freshest produce and meat for the Pigs […]
Benkyodo Company Unveils New Seasonal Sweets
November 5, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Ricky Okamura takes piping hot steamed sticky rice flour and fashions it into circular globs, exhibiting the masterful skill of mochi-making. “I’m making blueberry mochi,†he said, “because blueberries are in season, and I wanted to try something different.†The Okamura brothers of San Francisco Japantown’s Benkyodo Company are continuing a tradition of Japanese confectionary […]
MORE THAN A HILL OF BEANS: Hodo Soy Beanery Opens New Factory in West Oakland
October 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment
OAKLAND — Dressed in a bright yellow plastic apron and blue-striped engineer’s cap, Minh Tsai, the founder of Hodo Soy Beanery, is leading a tour of his company’s new West Oakland factory. With one hand, he presents a palmful of re-hydrated organic soybeans, and with the other he gestures enthusiastically to the large silver soymilk […]
THE GOCHISO GOURMET: The ABCs of Nutrition
October 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Nutrition really is that simple. Like A, B, C or 1, 2, 3. There are no magic potions, no magic nutrient combinations, no hocus pocus. Many “experts†publish books on the ideal diet more often than not focusing on some ideal nutrient ratio or combination that will make you shed pounds while others downright feed […]
New SF Confectionary Minamoto Kitchoan Offers Sweet Treats
October 22, 2009 by Leave a Comment
As pretty as poems, the confections at Minamoto Kitchoan — a new Japanese sweets shop in downtown San Francisco —almost look too good to eat. The pastel paper wrappings make many of the sweets resemble perfect little presents. And the glass cabinets, filled with artfully arranged models of pastries and seasonal fruits and foliage, bring […]
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