For those who come from Taiwan, they’re used to the Taiwanese style cakes that are western in style but adjusted to the Taiwanese taste. This usually means cakes that are much less sweeter and containing less butter and less heavy creams.

In SF bay area, Taiwanese bakeries such as Sheng Kee and Sogo Bakery chains have [...]

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Among the many Japanese ramen shops in the bay area, Ringer Hut stands out as somewhat of a unique place. It serves a special type of ramen called champon, most famous from the city of Nagasaki. It is at this city where this style of ramen originated from the local Chinese restaurants.

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Although it is one of the four major styles of Chinese cuisine, restaurants based on the Beijing style has been far and few in between in the SF bay area. The other three major cuisines, Cantonese, Shanghai, and Sichuan style restaurants can be readily found here and elsewhere. The reason can be many.  But in [...]

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News of a place in Fremont that offers the famous Peking Duck (北京烤鴉) dish made its way to me and I was excited to hear about it. If a Peking Duck place exists in Fremont, that means I don’t have to drive up from the south bay to Berkeley’s Great China for Peking Duck. But [...]

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