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Mastering Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki with Fumio Tanga | Lindsay ...
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Okonomiyaki, a preeminent Japanese savoury pancake, is no exception.
Gaining momentum during the war as rice became scarce, it was an opportunity for the people of Japan to be creative and resourceful with the ingredients they had.
Literally translating to “whatever you want (okonomi) grilled (yaki),” as it’s name suggests, the dish brings together a mix of ingredients (usually with egg and flour) to be grilled, with the specificities around process and structure differing depending on the region.
On a recent trip to Melbourne (where he ran a pop-up restaurant), we caught up with Fumio Tanga, a Japanese okonomiyaki aficionado currently residing in London.
Before finishing up his four-year Sho Foo Doh residency at the Pacific Social Club, we spoke to Fumio about the significance of okonomiyaki in Japan, what it was like to learn from the master at Henkutsuya in Hiroshima and his new project Broad Island Shokudo.
Pacific Social Club in Hackney London - One of a growing number ...
One of a growing number of hip little cafés that have been popping up in unlikely Hackney locations.
The walls are lined with vintage album inner sleeves, and you can sit in little booths, or hole up in the salon at the rear.
Uchi, review, Clapton: ' It truly felt like a neighbourhood restaurant ...
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Clarence Road and the adjacent Narrow Way, the nexus of the Hackney riots in 2011, have of late become home to several Japanese restaurants.
Although Uchi started as a sushi delivery service, dropping off responsibly-sourced sushi around Hackney by bike, you would not know it from the restaurant.
Uchi is active on Instagram and Twitter but its printed menu is scant and its website bare, so I wasn’t sure what to expect.
Although they serve skewers, nigiri and rolls, Uchi is not a yakitori or sushi restaurant, but a self-described home-style café, offering a range of small dishes designed to be shared over several hours and many pints of cold Asahi, or high quality sake.
Uchi truly felt like a neighbourhood restaurant – minimal marketing, little to no press, no fanfare: it’s just quietly getting on with things, while locals start to filter in.
What's for Lunch? Pacific Social Club, Lower Clapton | Londonist
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Pacific Social Club is self-described on its Facebook page as a “coffee shop/social club/analogue recording library/drop-out centre/mixtape factory” that serves “nice coffee, ice coffee, ice tea, self help books, exotic sandwiches, coconuts, Nigerian soft drinks, cake … and healthy breakfasts.”
During our visit, a “Venezuelan sandwich” written up on the chalkboard menu caught our attention pretty quickly.
A large portioned melty manchego and pimiento mash up of our original request and some other chalkboard options later had us thinking that next time we pop in (and we definitely plan to pop in again soon), we might just ask the PSC folks to make us a sandwich with whatever's fresh without even taking a glance at what's on the menu.
Our lunch was followed by a stellar Americano (£1.70 and sans any coffee snob hyperbole), giving us some time to absorb PSC's lovely retro bric-a-brac clutter…with just enough tongue-in-cheek edge to the décor to keep the vibe from becoming too kitsch (the Cramps being piped through as background music toned down any twee tendencies as well).
Offering one of the best lunches we've reviewed for some time, Pacific Social Club is located at 8 Clarence Road, E5 8HB.
Yuzu, Spitalfields, restaurant review: conveyor-belting sushi and ...
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and co, as this Japanese eatery aims to prove with its takeaway and sit-down dining options My recent trip to the newly opened Yuzu necessitated some research into the history of conveyor belt sushi.
By day, it is a conveyor belt sushi restaurant.
By night, and through clever design, the conveyor track becomes a modern counter at which diners can share plates of carefully constructed Japanese comfort food served up by a friendly French duo, the owner and his head chef, in a modern tasteful environment, with hushed trance playing through the speakers, belying the solemnity of the industrial interior.
The first conveyor belt sushi restaurant was opened in 1958 by Yoshiaki Shiraishi, a small business owner with staffing problems.
Yuzu seeks to shift this paradigm by offering a place for City workers to grab an unpretentious daytime bite of very fresh, quality sushi, but morphing into a different beast in the evening with tasteful, slow-paced dining.