Rintaro: Food and Stories from a Japanese Izakaya in California by Sylvan Mishima Brackett, Jessica Battilana
English | October 12th, 2023 | ISBN: 1958417009 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 158.02 MB
Nestled behind a leafy courtyard in San Francisco's Mission District, with the warm glow of lanterns illuminating well-worn wood counters, Rintaro is a beautiful escape; familiar and unexpected, bold and restrained. And its food is straightforwardly delicious: dashimaki tamago, juicy and piping hot; pork gyoza, each dumpling held together by a web of crispy batter; udon with hand-rolled noodles and a hot-spring egg; and a towering melon parfait with bright melon jellies that all but burst in your mouth. This is food that tastes both like Japan and California – not fusion food – but the food that you'd expect if the Bay Area were a region of Japan.