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BEST KOREAN? THE JURY’S (NOT) OUT

Purple Hippo says...

Ohgane

It is perhaps not by mere coincidence that our restaurant pick for our second week of blogging is…Korean…again.  We live in an area endowed with a high density of Korean restaurants — mostly mid-level in service, specialty and food quality, but satisfactory nonetheless, from quickly-tossed noodles to slow-cooked black goat stews.  If you are looking for decent Korean food (and actually a handful of choices to worry your foodie head about within a 5-mile radius) north of L.A. — or even just north of Santa Clara / Cupertino — the Korean food in Oakland is most likely your best bet.

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WEEKLY MASHUP

Blue Elephant says...

While Hippo scrambles to make some of super secret special chicken wings in time for her friend’s birthday bash, we thought we’d throw up our blog’s first weekly mashup. Ok, ok, so it was supposed to be the Friday mashup, but I’m sick and she’s busy, ok?

Every week (maybe often on Fridays!), we’ll bring you a mashup of the week’s oddities, delicacies, splurges and/or disasters, all in picturesque form. Here goes!

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RAVEN POOP, ANYONE?

Blue Elephant says...

Huarache sign

After a hard long week of couple trouble, we finally sat down for a well-deserved meal of…

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OH, HONEY

OB Chicken Town
Purple Hippo says...

It’s Saturday night.  Dinner time.  It’s going to be the first entry in our blog.  We settled for an old standard, a favorite comfort food joint on dear ol’ Telegraph Ave.  Just to test the waters for collaborative blogging.  Nice and familiar food.  Can’t go wrong.

But tonight’s different.  I have to start off this blog with my humble two-cents on something so homely and yet magnificent - the Korean-style Fried Chicken.

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