Subject: Japanese Food and Cooking

• SF Weekly's Seven-Day Dish

  March 20, 2008

• Food Porn: Deep-Fried Shrimp Heads At We Be Sushi

  June 11, 2008

• SF Weekly's Seven-Day Dish

  July 22, 2008

• Food Porn: Yakitori and Kushi Katsu at Halu

  August 4, 2008

• Delica rf-1 Invented the Meat and Potato Remix

  September 24, 2008

• Salad Daze: Kyoto Sushi's Yasai

  October 27, 2008

• Beyond the California Roll: 10 Types of Hood Maki

  (S.F. sushi spots create specialties far more regionalized than just the California Roll; image via Flavor J) It's not that the California Roll isn't appreciated, but it sure is fun to see sushi joints naming their maki after the neighborhoods where they operate. Here are 10 that stand out: 1. Potrero Veggie Roll (asparagus, scallions, tofu, carrots, avocado, inari) at Blowfish Sushi (2170 Bryant) 2. Marina Roll (shrimp and avocado) at Enoshima (2280 Chestnut) 3. Castro Rainbow Maki (Crab

  February 18, 2009

• Dish Duel: Tempura Soba

  The first of our occasional series where we'll pit the same dish from two different restaurants against each other concerns tempura soba, the Japanese soup dish of buckwheat noodles paired with a side of tempura shrimp and vegetables for dipping, in a battle between Sunset District noodle shop Hotei (1290 9th Ave.) and Mifune Don (22 Peace Plaza) in the Japan Center.

  April 2, 2009

• Turning Japanese

  At this tiny spot, tasty skewered treats are served with a vintage soundtrack.

  December 10, 2008

• Izakaya? O Yes

  Small plates but big flavors in Japantown.

  April 9, 2008

• Snazzy and Jazzy at Yoshi's

  Some interesting and fancy Japanese cooking is paired with a glamorous restaurant and nightclub.

  March 19, 2008

• It'za Izakaya

  You can get (almost) any kind of Japanese food you want at Hime restaurant

  August 15, 2007

• Hard-Core Sushi

  Sebo raises the bar for quality and variety

  August 1, 2007

• Omnivorous

  In 2006, San Francisco is still a marvelous place to eat (stop the presses!)

  December 27, 2006

• Dinner and a Show

  The food duels with presentation at the best little sushi house in San Francisco

  July 19, 2006

• Picnic in the City

  Forget the burgers and brats; we're packing roast beef sushi

  June 28, 2006

• Noodle-icious

  Total immersion in a Japanese film retrospective prompts a lust for soba and udon

  February 15, 2006

• Tofu for What Ails You

  Tasteful design and designed tastes rule at the vegan Medicine Eatstation

  January 25, 2006

• Feckless Eating

  After a week of feral grazing, thoughtful food that you can eat out or take home

  June 1, 2005

• Best Japanese

  May 11, 2005

• Poetic Food

  Ingredients: Asian restaurants and April, spring flowers and sprouts

  April 27, 2005

• Comfort Food

  A delicious oasis of calm for pre- or post-holiday dining

  December 22, 2004

• Readers' Choice

  Two e-mail tips lead to delectable Japanese fare

  December 15, 2004

• Best Japanese Restaurant

  Kabuto A&S

  May 19, 2004

• Fish Story

  Kabuto's new digs are smaller, but its menu is still huge

  December 24, 2003

• If You Knew Sushi

  The freshest and most unusual fish is the draw at the eccentric Midori Mushi

  July 30, 2003

• Movie Meals

  A strategy for eating near the San Francisco International Film Festival

  April 16, 2003

• Best Japanese Restaurant

  May 15, 2002

• Down on the Corner

  26's Corner

  September 5, 2001

• Discovering Japan

  Takara

  August 1, 2001

• Sinking Sun

  July 25, 2001

• Maki

  June 13, 2001

• Best Oshinko

  May 23, 2001

• Best Japanese Restaurant

  May 23, 2001

• Best Music to Eat Sushi By

  Hanabi Japanese Restaurant

  May 23, 2001

• Kobe Seekers

  April 11, 2001

• Ready for Takeoff

  April 4, 2001

• Funky Maki

  December 20, 2000

• Hairballs

  August 30, 2000

• Battle Sushi, Part Deux

  June 14, 2000

• Best Sushi Restaurant to Which to Take a Microbiologist

  May 17, 2000

• Best Undiscovered Sushi

  May 17, 2000

• Former Alice Waters Assistant Turning His Hand to Bento Boxes with a Drop-Dead Sensibility

  Peko-Peko's kakuni, made with pork from Marin Sun FarmsEven in this town, many of us know Japanese food as monster maki, fast-food ramen, and greasy tonkatsu cutlets. Sylvan Brackett wants to change that. The former assistant to Alice Waters is making bento boxes combining authentic Japanese technique and Slow Food sourcing. Make that Sylvan Mishima Brackett. The 33-year-old wants you to know he has a Japanese mom, grew up in a Japanese-style house, and spent two years cooking in Japan. Bracket

  May 21, 2009

• Tsunami Mission Bay's Boxless Bento: Splurge Worthy

  Janine KahnYeah, we noticed it's not technically in a box.Unless you do sketchy things with other peoples' money for a living, $15 for lunch is probably out of reach. Except on super special occasions, like making it through another week still employed. Next time you have something to celebrate, head to Tsunami Mission Bay (302 King at Fourth St.), which is owned by the same folks who run Nihon Whisky Lounge, Café Abir, and the NOPA sushi bar of the same name. Tsunami's new bento box ($15) offe

  July 20, 2009

• Four West Coast Restaurants Changing Sushi As We've Known It

  elkanah5730/FlickrThe new traditionalist: Sebo's Michael Black.​It's ironic -- sushi, a cuisine that fetishizes a few simple, pristine ingredients, just might be the last restaurant genre to pick up the ingredient-centric mantra of modern food. But a sustainable sushi revolution that ignited in San Francisco has gradually spread to other West Coast cities, causing more and more sushi lovers to question where the tuna in their nigiri is from, and whether or not it's depleting global fish st

  August 6, 2009

• Vegan Eats: Cha-Ya's Japanese Cooking Sticks to Your Ribs

  Hana Gomoku: Sushi rice with kaiware, shiitake, green bean, carrot, lotus root, tofu pouch, yam cake, hijiki, burdock, broccolini, daikon, cauliflower, and zucchini.​We heart eating vegan, but have never felt quite so nourished and satisfied as we have after eating at the recently opened Sunset branch of the Japanese vegan restaurant Cha-Ya (1386 Ninth Ave. at Judah -- also 762 Valencia at 18th St. and 1686 Shattuck at Lincoln, Berkeley). Greeted by a seemingly endless men

  August 20, 2009

• Pace Yourself

  September 9, 2009

• Organizers at U.C. Berkeley Want to Make the World's Longest California Roll. Why?

  revjim5000/FlickrThe length to beat: 300 feet.​Yeah, this is how we roll: Food history may be made on Sunday, Nov. 8, when a group in Berkeley attempts to make the world's longest California roll. Eight years ago, a group in Maui set a record for a 300-foot-long roll. The Cal organizers hope to beat the record and "bring the California roll record back to Cal!" Eaters, you will be able to eat the results of the sushi made with crab (or, um, krab), cucumber, and avocado, all wrapped in vin

  October 26, 2009

• Early-Bird Special: Yu-Zen

  cygnoir/FlickrYu-Zen's futo maki.​An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. We all know the taste of mid-grade sushi-joint food like we know the taste of a McDonald's burger: starchy tempura, elaborately gooshy fantasy rolls, watery miso soup. Get something better, and it seems like revelation. That's the case at Yu-Zen (4036 Balboa at 42nd Ave.), a no-frills Outer Richmond sushi bar where the sprawling menu offers up modest delights in the form of chirashi sushi, izakaya

  November 3, 2009

• Yu-Zen and the art of sushi

  November 4, 2009