nihonmachi: on the bridge.

udon/soba.
sandy, contemplating whether the sweet taste of plastic is agreeable with her palette.
a classic practice menu for your japanese 1a class. 天ぷら定食をお願いします!
again.
簡単な。
tempura.
done.
and on a completely different day . . . here we enter the metal, rubber, and smog congestion-filled maze that is the path towards the bay bridge.
a real time-saver! feel free to utilize this underutilized city resource should you be willing to roll the dice against a $271 ticket and (probably) a point!
phoenix yellow on a subaru and a nissan pickup truck!? why?
sub-8.0 capable bridge infrastructure.
cables ready to snap like the tyrannosaurus paddock in jurassic park.
unfortunately, this picture fails to capture the utter misery one has to endure in driving to this point.
some random building under construction. update: this apparently will one day become one rincon hill, "the tallest residential building west of the mississippi" according to this sfgate.com article.
heading towards the haight.
er, classic san francisco architecture. i guess.
more of that.
something to do while stuck in traffic.
prime parking directly in front of giant robot. compared to their la location, this one is fairly limited however.
and here we are.
random plant, photo courtesy of sandy.
サンフランシスコの日本町. unfortunately, this place seems to be shrinking over time. in the 1940s, it apparently once spanned 34 city blocks. *sigh*
our favorite yoshoku style restaurant! on the bridge.
the curry here is pure heaven. =D at 6x (or above) spicy, it is unparalleled in the bay area!
menu.
outside.
locomoco (middle, left), served to perfection.
manga, lining the tables.
sausages.
meat spaghetti!
loco moco with demiglaze sauce! i also highly recommend the locomoco w/ garlic sauce, one of my usual orders (besides the katsu curry)! =D
chomp.
gone.
this place also features a nice assortment of drinks including teas, ramune, calpico, strawberry sodas, beer, sake, soju, etc.
anime (on multiple screens).
done.

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