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. Based on the [...]

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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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Lawrence Plaza is one of the newest Korean food court / shopping center located in Santa Clara. It is also one of the first and largest Korean food court in Northern California, taking a cue from similar centers in L.A. area. I like to call it “LP” Plaza since their logo actually spells out “LP”. [...]

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When QQ Noodle first opened last April in Fremont, many bay area residents were excited to hear about a place that actually “hand-pulls” noodle (手拉面) from scratch. Since then, I’ve written about a few other places which offers fresh hand-pulled noodles, which are the domain of Shandong style restaurants. These included Four Seasons in West [...]

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