Probably most people who grew up in China, Taiwan, or Korea will remember eating roasted sweet potato (烤地瓜) as children. The specific variety is known as Japanese Yam in the Asian grocery stores here. It is yellow on the inside and has a sweet taste. I had not expected to taste it again in the [...]

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Darda is good for family dinner (very loud place so kids should fit right in). But it is northern style so expect to eat lots of sesame bread and knife-cut noodles – one of the best for it. Dynasty is HK/Cantonese but is more banquet style so very high-end and expensive ingredients = expensive price [...]

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After the demise of one of my favorite ramen spots, Gen Ramen, the sign on the door said that a new ramen shop will be replacing it at the same location, called Ajisen Ramen. Apparently it is a chain from Japan with locations in L.A., NY, and lots of cities in China. The new place [...]

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I was excited to hear about a new hand-pulled noodle place that opened recently in Fremont. I wanted to try it out to see if there can be a truly good Northern Chinese style noodle shop in bay area. We went on a Saturday and it turned out that it was the busiest day of [...]

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