Hong’s Cave

Well, it was completely a surprise!
There once was this ramen-ya in San Jose called Do-Henkotsu. What made this place unique among a dozen or so ramen-ya in the area was its regional color and the owner’s (whose name I never got to know) pride in it.
The ramen itself was pretty good, maybe not the [...]

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1814 Hillsdale Avenue Suite C
San Jose, CA
408.445.9696
M-Sa: 11:30 - 22:00
Su: 16:30 - 21:30
I love sushi: Not the rolls, not sashimi, just nigirizushi. But I am also cheap. :p
For the past couple of years, the sushi place of choice for my wife and I were Sushi Maru in Sunnyvale, CA. It was a [...]

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I don’t know if it’s just me, but for the past several months, I think I am seeing a very interesting trend in the crude oil price and the gas pump price.
Take a look at this AP graph of the recent trend in the crude oil prices. Basically, it’s been hitting record high for [...]

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375 Saratoga Ave. Suite M
San Jose, CA
408.246.3933
M/T/Th/F: 11:30 - 13:30 / 18:00 - 21:30
W: Closed
Sat: 11:30 - 14:00 / 18:00 - 21:30
Sun: 11:30 - 14:00 / 17:00 - 20:00
This seems to be the latest ramen-ya in the South Bay. From their website, Ramen Halu (ラメン晴) opened in early 2003. I came across the [...]

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4330 Moorpark Avenue
San Jose, CA
408.255.8244
M: Closed
T-F: 11:30 - 14:00 / 17:00 - 21:30
Sat: 11:30 - 15:00 / 16:00 - 21:00
Sun: 11:30 - 15:00 / 16:00 - 20:30
As I was looking for different ramen places around the area, I found this shop last December. It might have been around longer, but I didn’t know about [...]

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I like noodles with soup. I’ve always liked JanChiGukSu (잔치국수/”Party Noodle Soup”, Korean thin noodle soup) and KalGukSu (칼국수/”Knife Noodle Soup”, thicker Korean noodle soup), and have been digging Pho (Vietnamese thin rice noodle soup) ever since I came to the U.S. in 1994.
However, there is something special about RaaMen (ラ―メン/”ramen”). I am [...]

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Two things I observed last night…
I left work a bit early because I was a bit tired (the Monday thing). But when I got home, I felt like going to a bookstore. On my way there, I noticed a smoke trail (or moisture trail that is left by plains) up in the southwestern [...]

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