From uni to wagyu: Get restaurant-quality Japanese ingredients from this San Mateo wholesale company

Turn your home kitchen into a sushi bar via Kiyoi. Fresh fish such as tuna (left), shishamo (a type of smelt native to Japan, center) and ingredients for tamago onigirazu are among the many items now available from Kiyoi in San Mateo. (Images via Kiyoi Facebook page) Thanks to a pandemic pivot, you can now buy the same high-quality tuna, Hokkaido uni and wagyu beef served at some of the Bay Area’s ...

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From tonkatsu to lumpia, Peninsula pop-up marries Filipino and Japanese flavors

Meet the Daly City culinary couple behind Ox & Tiger. Ox & Tiger’s miki malabed, an egg noodle soup in a clear but rich pork broth. (Photo by Elena Kadvany) Ox & Tiger’s miki malabed is the kind of soup you turn to when you’re sick, hungover, bone tired or … deep in the throes of an unrelenting global pandemic. The noodle soup is named after miki, or egg noodles, and Malabed, a ...

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