About!MenuKenKen Tweets!Visit Ken Ken RamenKen Ken BlogSay Hello!Had the pleasure to sit down with Taka Hori, Ken Ken Ramen’s head chef to discuss Ken Ken’s new Canadian Crab Special Ramen.
A new special ramen using local ingredients and seasonable high quality Canadian Crab, a pescetarian stock made from dried grilled halibut, mackerel, sardine and other fish bones. Topped with Ken Ken’s famous slow cooked eggs and featuring a thicker wavy noodle this is an interesting complex and healthy ramen option for the winter that aims to offer a balanced experience highlighting seasonable crab.
Taka shared with me his thoughts on this new dish.
What attracted to you crab?
Taka: I wanted to make a seasonable special based on fish. Something that featured a strong unique winter season item. For all chefs this is an exciting item - crab. I wanted to make a fish broth ramen for our customers who are pescetarian and who love ramen. Crab is part of that effort.
Could you walk us through the broth and how you came about making it?
Taka: The broth in an old school Japanese fish stock. It has a lot of different fish bones to penetrate the core essence of fish. We are using grilled fish bones that I pick up from one of my sensei’s restaurants. He uses high quality fish in a sushi restaurant and I’m lucky to use the bones for our fish stock. We grill and dry the fish bones to extract flavors. We cook all the bones, freeze them to lock in flavor and then dry them in the sun for at least 3 days to get an extra dry concentrated taste. The bones take on a beautiful amber color. We cook these bones and this stock is the base that we mix and blend with our vegan broth using different seaweeds, veggies, mushrooms etc. Its almost like we are making a tonkotsu (pork bone) ramen but using fish bones instead.
What kind of fish bones are being using?
Taka: Halibut, Makeral, Spanish Mackeral, Sea Bass and Dried Bonito as well as scallops.
Do some fish bones have stronger flavors than others?
Taka: Yes - as you know Bonito or certain fish that we call “blue” family fish like sardine or mackeral has a a little bit of bitter fishy taste. Snapper, sole, haliput instead have what we call a “white or clear” fish taste. I then try to balance these “clear” taste bones with the heavier fish of the “blue” to create a pleasant experience. This is our original “dashi” stock.
Before Ken Ken - you worked also in Sushi restaurants. Did these experiences help in making this ramen?
Taka: Of course - because these original fish bones actually come from one of my sensei’s (teacher’s) high quality restaurant and I worked with him to really focus this style ramen.
The crab ramen features a new wavy noodle you developed - could you tell us more about that noodle.
Taka: The crab ramen features a lot of crab ramen with a light flavor fish stock. Very simple and clear, but this mild impact needs a strong noodle with a strong character to create harmony and impact. We tried many noodles and with the help of our noodle factory we came up with a wide noodle that has a strong impact. This creates a balance. Soft light airy crab, fish stock and a strong character noodle. I hope this creates a harmony for customers.
What kind of tare (flavor profile) are using to finish the broth?
Taka: I use aged soy sauce and a crunchy Mendocino sea ribbons to finish the stock. I hope customers will enjoy.
Ken Ken’s Crab ramen is available in limited servings on Tuesday and Wednesdays evenings.
The Brief Foray Into Japanese Psych Music Playlist
Track list:
1. Cherry Blossom - Susumu Yokota
2. Kodomotachi - Susumu Yokota
3. 1000 Knives - Yellow Magic Orchestra
4. Pink Lady Lemonade - Acid Mothers Temple
5. Star - Boredoms
6. Heart - Boredoms
7. Flood 3 15:00 - Boris
8. People Can Choose - Les Rallizes Denudes
9. Between 7-03-7-15 PM - Taj Mahal Travellers
This weekend!
West Coast Craft is a craft and design show featuring carefully selected designers, artists, and craftspeople living and working on the West Coast. Using a variety of mediums, including wood, metal, leather and paper, these designers create singular items that exemplify the mood and aesthetics of their West Coast lifestyle.
Cool but sunny, laidback yet innovative, they represent the best of west coast craft.
We’ll be there with our friends serving and hawking Japanese Bento Boxes! Made fresh!
Japanese Vegan , Veggie and Meat Bentos - 10$
Delicious!
More info @ http://westcoastcraft.com/
Tattoo
According to Aetius, a physician
of some second-century repute,
the ancients had their own receipt for it:
as if preparing for their funerals
they would take some corroded bronze
previously attacked by vinegar
and grind it solemnly with vitriol
and just a touch of predictable gall
before they applied it with needles
to the relative permanence of the dermis.
And now, at both ends of the M62
there are reports of the stricken natives
taking this rite of the hot scratch
some way closer to their raw grief
by asking their artists to grind
the course ashes of their beloved
with a suitably black ink
and to bury this finer dust
through repeated puncture wounds
in the form of words which go down
deep into their sore and grieving flesh:
Just like me / They long to be / Close to you.
From ’Frieze’
Fairytale Dreams.
Curious about Lolita styles? This doc. is probably the best on sharing the emotional card on what motivates this advanced style.
Not personally are steez, but fun to see a passion and energy behind these gals.
Suger Coated.
Tomoo Gokita was born in 1969 in Tokyo. He gained attention in the late 90’s for his extemporarily produced drawing works. In recent years he has created abstract paintings that simultaneously pay heed to specific motifs, including portraits which appropriate the colors of black and white.
Parklet Design Discussions - Open to the Public!
Kenken is working with the planning department of San Francisco on a Parklet in front of 3378 and 3376 18th Street.
We’ve gone through initial notification processes, planning requirements, SF DPW reviews, community outreach and are finalists for approval in the next few months for construction and approval.
We are working with 2 sets of architects on designs for parklet and would like to invite the community, our neighbors and interested parties to send feedback and participate in person at a public meeting at 6pm on 8/19/2013 at Ken Ken Ramen (3378 18th Street) to discuss feedback etc.
We’re open to all ideas on how we can design a parklet that is suited well to the community, is easy to maintain and improves the street.
8/19/2013 - 6pm @ 3378 18th Street.
Open to the public.
We’ll provide full current architectural plans and renderings and invite others to give feedback, critiques and ideas.
Above rendering is one design option Kenken is considering.
Meet artist Julia Lemke, designer of Auger + Ore, a 22 year old San Francisco resident, beekeeper, and pinball enthusiast. Finishing up her last year as a graphic design student, Julia works part time at Voyager/Revolver, and keeps our jewelry shelves well stocked with her handmade pieces. This past week Julia let us into her home/workspace to let us have a look around at some new creations and let us know what she has planned for her brand Auger + Ore.
Revolver: Can you tell us a little bit about your background and how you started Auger + Ore?
Julia: “I have a graphic design background, and I think that has had the most profound influence on me. There are many opportunities in design to dabble, it has gotten me into photography, styling, marketing, packaging, product design, all relevant skills to developing a brand. I’ve always had drive to create, I think I got that from my parents. My mother is an artist, and growing up she taught me all sorts of crafts: Ukrainian eggs, glass fusing, basket weaving, quilting, silversmithing. My dad’s influence was design. He is an industrial designer, we were always designing, and building things, tree houses, wooden toys, furniture. My aesthetic is a mix of both of my parents: Folk Art and Minimalism.”
Revolver: What is your creative process like?
Julia: “It’s kind of a mess. Honestly, I can be scattered with my ideas, I get really excited about new ideas and projects and it can be hard to focus. My notebook is full of frantic scribbles, sketches for projects, and so many lists. I tend to have ten projects going at once. Sometimes I will spend a morning working one idea, and than with other projects I can devote months to. I mostly like to learn new things, I tend to bounce around from project to project. I will be obsessed with ceramics, the next day textiles. It can be overwhelming,but it keeps me excited about my work.”
Revolver: What are your favorite materials to work with?
Julia: “Texture is always the driving force. I am very tactile, mixing contrasted textures and weights. I like things that have a human quality to them, and don’t feel too polished: smooth, heavy ceramic, rough twine,raw wood, and hammered brass. I try to incorporate natural elements whenever possible, and lately have been experimenting with mixing moss or seaweed into my tapestries.”
Revolver: What are you looking forward to next?
Any upcoming projects you are excited about?Julia: I’m really interested in weaving. I love kilims and dhurries, and I would be thrilled to make my own.I just started learning, but my next endeavor is going to be building my own loom.
Revolver: How would you describe Auger + Ore in four words or less?Julia: Organic, Primitive, Simple, Warm
Revolver: What artists or designers inspire you? Are there direct influences to your jewelry?
Julia: Doug Johnston, Cy Twombly, Ruth Asawa, Anton Alvarez, and Maja Ruznic are my favorites right now.Tribal art from around the world is an obvious influence in my work. Someone recently gave me this book of tribal decorations from Africa and it completely blew me away. It is truly stunning.
Revolver: How do you take your coffee?
Julia: Tons of cream.
Revolver: Describe your perfect sandwich.
Julia: Pesto, goat cheese, artichoke hearts & arugula on ciabatta.
Auger + Ore is available at Revolver and Voyager in San Francisco . Also check out her site here.
Julia is amazing!
Something eerie and magical. Soft. Photography by Colin Snapp.
Images are from www.colinsnapp.com
House visit with former model Kanako and product designer in her 30 year old Tokyo Condo.
“Six years have passed since Lieko Shiga came to Miyagi Prefecture" -
We learn entering the photographer’s latest exhibition.
After finishing a residency in Europe, Lieko returned to Japan and headed straight to Miyagi after she saw the beauty of the beaches that pulled her in. Suddenly, she came to a place by the ocean, dense with pine forests, and found herself “falling in love” with it. There was a community along the beach called Kitakama. She started knocking on doors to ask if there was an empty house available in which she could live. She introduced herself as a photographer. The first few residents were puzzled. It was the first time that a little woman calling herself a photographer had come knocking on their doors to ask for a place to live. They took her to the former director of the community center, who was culturally exposed, and he took her to the neighborhood association chief. The community center director said that the area had never had a historian and archivist, and it would be good to have a photographer living in it who could be entrusted with that responsibility. The neighborhood association chief said he knew a small house, the owner of which lived elsewhere. This person was called up, agreed to Lieko living there for a pittance, gave her carte blanche to do whatever she liked with it, “but just be careful, for the house is very old.” So, Lieko became the community photographer. This was a new identity for her, a “title,” distinct from that of an artist. It demanded a different set of skills that made her initially very nervous, but also gave her immediate access to the life and spaces of the community. For almost a year and a half after that, she concentrated on teaching herself this kind of public, often bureaucratic, photography. She also started sorting the funeral portraits at the local shrine and scanning old photographs of the grave markers, doing little work of her own. It was photography that allowed her in, and art that made her an “alien.”
Being an alien within a community. Fun in a “mad, chaotic” way, with everybody saying “straight away” exactly what they thought about her life and work. Yet, this candor, with its capacity to form instant relations, did not make the people of the community, and its shifting network of relationships, any less complicated and inscrutable in Lieko’s eyes. To her, they were “talking bodies” that began to entrust her not so much with their lives and histories as with their words and bodies. This was the way they drew her in, but also made her wary of losing her distance and freedom as an artist to the ethics and emotions of working within a community. The people of Kitakama gradually eased her out of her nervousness with official photography. She also lost her shyness with the karaoke mike: “I didn’t exist if I didn’t sing.” She photographed the meetings in the community center, the summer and autumn festivals, the annual holiday for the elderly in September, the athletics, golf, gateball and beer-drinking, the rituals in the shrine and the seasonal flowers.
For more than a year, this work within the community remained separate from Lieko’s work as an artist. But the difference between photography that was art and photography that was documentation was not relevant to the residents. One day, an elderly woman came to Lieko and asked for her funeral portrait to be made. The woman wanted to keep the portrait in her shrine at home so that her family members would understand that this photograph should be used for her funeral. Lieko was surprised, because the woman looked quite robust. She had come to be photographed on her bicycle and her hair was all over the place. So, Lieko took a comb and arranged her hair before photographing her. A new quality of ritual entered the shoot, and it felt to Lieko that she had crossed a line. From around that time, the line between her work with the community and her art began to blur.
However, the residents needed her strangeness, as much as she did, in order to maintain their distance from her. So, as an artist, her relationship with ethics had to be fundamentally different from that of, say, an anthropologist or historian. Yet, her long encounter with these “talking bodies,” rooted in her love for a place that she came upon almost by accident, was making her work a “cross-point” between the individual and the community. Rather than alienating the residents, what was inexplicable in the art she made with them became the basis of a new set of relations. Both the artist and the residents were equally in the dark about what the images meant and where they came from. This became a new game that united, instead of divided, them. What fascinates Lieko is that the residents would enjoy looking at this work at every stage of its making, but they never asked “why.” They were only curious about “how” she made it and “what came next”: “I am in the world before the image. That’s why nobody asked why.”
Her goal was to not only photograph this isolated village – a population of about 320 – but to assimilate, converting from stranger to villager and in turn revealing the town’s hidden stories.
Selections of Shiga’s photographs of the town – 240 of them – were exhibited in a swirling pattern at the Studio Mediatheque in Sendai giving visitors an unsettling experience of experiencing the feeling of approaching an new place and community.
“—En el fondo —dijo Gregorovius—, París es una enorme metáfora.”
(“In the end - Paris is a one giant metaphor.” Said Gregorovius.“)
Julio Cortázar, Rayuela, 26
For those Spanish speakers - Rayuela by Julio Cortazar is a masterpiece of Latin American Magic Realism. An awesome "hopscotch” adventure set between Paris, Buenos Aires, and your mind.
The book alone is a great - but A mad genius has mapped out points in the book onto the Google map of Paris to make it even better. For the helpless romantics who are swept away by the affair between La Maga and Horacio check the following map out. Magic.
|| CREST OF THE STRAWBERRY MOON ||
June 21 is the astronomical summer of the Northern Hemisphere.
June 23 is the solstice full moon.
On June 22, 2013, we invite you to Bolinas, California, to dedicate the night to the solstice and revel under the FULL MOON at the peak of the season.
Bolinas is a clandestine coastal community in Marin County, California. The census-designated place is located on the California coast, approximately 13 miles (21 km) northeast of San Francisco by air.
On June 22 the climax of the solstice will be imbued with the milky volume of the moon’s illuminated disc. We invite you: our dear creators: to build a cathedral with us, a pantheon to the solstice moon in Bolinas.
The show is hosted and inspired by Mickey Murch’s unique honor-system farm stand, an experiment with trust and vegetables on Gospel Flat Farm. Mickey’s single room space was constructed with intention, to house artist practice and performance. It’s a nexus of creativity, fertility, community, and exchange.
Please help us fill this vessel, and create an undeniable invitation to ascend. Suspended sculpture. Mobiles. Wind chimes. Art in space.
DIRECTIONS & DETAILS > > > > > > >
Camping is $7/person - there are only spots for 30 or so folks…so first come first served!! We’ll accomodate as many of you as we can but there will be a limit!
We’ll be making a spread of food so dinner should be covered.
BYOB encouraged. Also: BRING YOUR OWN DRINKING VESSEL! Plan to drink out of your own cup all night. :)
Parking will be in the nursery or the church parking lot just across the street. NO PARKING in front of the Farmstand - the community still needs to get to the veggies! Let us know if you need a ride up, or a tent, or other accoutrements and we can help arrange.
PERFORMANCES by:
Freemountain Pulsewave
Skate Laws
“One question for technology boosters—maybe the crucial one—is why, during the decades of the personal computer and the Internet, the American economy has grown so slowly, average wages have stagnated, the middle class has been hollowed out, and inequality has surged. Why has the information revolution that is supposed to be as historically important as the industrial revolution coincided with a period of broader economic decline?”
GEORGE PACKER in his article CHANGE THE WORLD
Silicon Valley transfers its slogans—and its money—to the realm of politics.
Something to consider between the dynamics of class, work, employment, policy, government in the Bay Area.
Interesting read.
Solid Nepenthes Lookbook: ”TOTTORI” Directed by Masumi Sakamoto
Summer Island Ryokan Adventures.
Window with Fake Newspapers @ La Biennale de Venezia 2012
Dutch artist Mark Manders on his Fake Newspapers.
“I covered all the windos of the entrance with fake newspaper. Like a thin layer of skin, the outside world is separated from an inner world.
I cannot use real newspapers because my work would then be linked to a certain date and place in the world. All of my works appear as if they have just been made and were left behind by the person who made them. There is no difference between a work made twenty four years ago or just a single day ago. Like the words in an encyclopedia, they are linked together in one big super-moment that is always attached to the here and now.
The newspapers consist of all the existing words in English language. Each word is used only once.
In this exhibition, I only use a small portion of the words that are in the these papers: cup, bone, chair, table, head, newspaper… The photos in the fake newspapers are taken in my studio and are mostly of studio dust. I try to avoid including language in the pictures”
It’s art Dad.
Razzle Dazzle Camouflage is the best.
Dazzle Camouflage Canoe (for Peter) / 2008 / c-print / 45 x 60 inches by CARRIE SCHNEIDER
Killswitch is a game that was supposedly created by Soviet gaming company Karvina Corporation in 1989. Only limited copies of the game were produced (between 5,000 to 10,000 copies) and it was very popular among Soviet gamers. The game itself was a pioneer in the survival horror genre. You had to choose between two characters, a girl or an invisible demon. The goal of the game was to navigate through an abandoned coal mine while battling demons and coal monsters. As it was hard to navigate the game with an invisible character people choose to complete the game with the girl character. Unfortunately, No one ever completed the game with the demon, because upon beating the game all trace of it would be erased from your hard drive.In 2005, an unopened copy of the self-deleting game surfaced on Ebay where it was promptly bought for $733,000 by a man from Japan named Yamamoto Ryuichi. Ryichi had planned to document his play through of the game on YouTube. The only video Ryuchi posted was of him staring at his computer screen and crying.
Our friend and artist Dennis Hoekstra is featured in the upcoming issue of Modern Painters. Some b-roll shots of his latest work and NYC Studio.
Always fun to see friend’s studios and work expanding.
See an original by Dennis at Ken Ken!
File this in magical places to visit.
Agoshima - if this place has any surf - we’re headed.
“Aogashima is a tropical volcanic island in the Philippine Sea, it is 3.5 km in length with a maximum width of 2.5 km. It is administered by Tokyo despite being located approximately 358 kilometres (222 mi) south of Tokyo. The caldera is occupied by a secondary cone named Maruyama. As of 2009 the island’s population was 205.
‘The history of human settlement on Aogashima is uncertain. Most of the people in Aogashima are Japanese. The island is mentioned in Edo period records kept at Hachijō-jima, which record volcanic activity in 1652, and from 1670-1680. An earthquake swarm in July 1780 was followed by steam rising from the lakes in the Ikenosawa Caldera. Further earthquakes in May 1781 led to an eruption. In April 1783, lava flows from the Maruyama cone resulted in the evacuation of all 63 households on the island. During a massive eruption in 1785, some 130-140 of the population of 327 islanders perished.’ - Wikipedia
Certificate of Final Completion.
A very expensive and stressful piece of paper to get.
Done and back to making ramen!
LIGHT SHOWERS
Photographs by Dominic Santos
OPENING and ZINE RELEASE
MARCH 29th 2013 7-10pm
MUSIC by Tomorrows Tulips
Our friend Chris runs this little gallery. Sick little space. Go support!
Geoffrey B. Small EVJO1 Suit
“A suit designed to last for over 25 years, the EVJ01 is hand cut with ultra-light suplux super 210s fabric woven by Fatelli Pizcenza, the world’s oldest woolen mill, founded in 1733, pure silk lineings from Como, real horn buttons from Parma, Italy. The interior construction has no glue, no fusing. Instead its soft structure is achieved with over a thousand invisible canvas hand-padding stitches in the lape and collar. Its 20 button holes are made by hand in pure silk Bozzolo Milano Reale threads and require 3 hours of expert work on the button holes alone. The hand dying process requires over 10 hours of painstaking work. Built with a total of 100 working hours in a small workroom in Venezia - the suit is pre hap the most comfortable and most valuable designer suite in the world today”
Sonya Park - Arts & Science.
Something to strive for - slow and steady.
18th Street Parklet Meeting
Japanese Architect Jun Ueno is an award winning Tokyo based architect and American designer Chika Nii are working with the Mission community to build a public parklet concept in front of Ken Ken Ramen! They’ve asked us at Ken Ken Ramen to help garner support!
We’re initial planning stages with city departments and are garnering feedback from the community. We’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback below. Initial rough specs are above. We will work with local authorities in construction of a public, friendly facing parklet! We think the parklet will help improve the appearence of 18th street and serve the city!
We’re going to host a Community Meeting for the parklet to garner support on March 11th and 6pm at Ken Ken Ramen.
Swing by and meet the architect. Give us feedback and discuss with us on ways to improve the city!
Questions: +1 415 578 3196! !
Via Twitter: @kenkenramen More information at: http://eatkenkenramen.tumblr.com
Welcome to the Mission!
Watch a thief on Camera Steal from our Chef’s Car!!!!!
Catch this fucker!
Beer + Balls! You can’t go wrong.
Starting this Sunday for Brunch!
We’re offering alcoholic Boba featuring the @BobaGuys
Alcoholic Boba flavors include:
Japanese Traditional Breakfasts coming Sunday 2/17/2013 to Ken Ken Ramen.
A traditional Japanese-style breakfast consists of steamed rice, miso soup, and various side dishes. Common side dishes are broiled/grilled fish, tamagoyaki (rolled omelet), tsukemono pickles, nori (dried seaweed), veggie dishes, and so on. We love making home made Japanese breakfast and we thought we’d share that love with the Mission!
Taking a break from noodle making all week - we’re offering Japanese Brunch starting this Sunday!
This week’s brunch menu features!
Sunday Brunch Set
Salmon Course Brunch $13.00
Salmon Shioyaki / house cured salted salmon
Tamago Yaki - Japanese Traditional Egg Dish
Atsuage, Daikon Nimono // fried tofu, daikon
Miso Soup with wakame & tofu
Nori - seasoned sea weed
Tsukemono - Japanese pickles house made in 30 year old nukazuke
Side orders @ $5
Kabocha Nimono - Japanese pumkin nimono
Snow White Salad Yukke Style - daikon, jicama, nagaimo, raw quail egg yolk
For Vegetarians we also offer a beautiful Veggie Main consisting of Grilled Eggplant in a miso / shoyu glaze
Open from 11 to 4pm - Sunday @ Ken Ken Ramen
Take a break from noodles and start your week right with a traditional Japanese healthy breakfast.
We’re also serving Boba Guys Drinks and the new Alcoholic Boba Guys Drinks we’ve been working on!!
Alcoholic Boba Drinks Featuring Boba Guys
- Boogie Beer (Sake + Beer + Guava + Beer + Boba)
- Ipanema ( Sake + Beer + Passion Fruit + Beer + Boba)
- Spiked Jasmine - (NIGORI Sake + Jasmin Milk Tea + Boba)
- Black Milk (Kuronama + Sake + Boba Guys + Dash Of Frozen Vanilla Frozen Kustard)
Super fun way to start your week right.
Homemade Frozen Custard Desserts by our friends Frozen Kuhsterd!
“I thought that was interesting
that all the places that are at my disposal right now,
the only place i find comforting is there, on that one chair closest to the corner.
I went there again, because it felt safe and calm.”
Cosmic Wonder SS13. As usual - next level madness…
The closest thing to what we would wear in a distant utopian radiant future.
Dear Community and Neighbors:
Writing on behalf of Ken Ken Ramen @ 3378 18th Street.
This letter invites you to a hosted open town hall public meeting to discuss renovation plans into 3376 18th Street and discuss ways we can create positive impact on the community and minimize residential discomfort.
The meeting is to be held January 7th, 2013 @ 5pm at 3378, 18th Street.
Ken Ken Ramen is a locally owned, Japanese restaurant located at 3378 18th Street , San Francisco focused on making quality Japanese Ramen since 2011. We have plans to open a small Japanese Bento Cafe, associated private gathering space and industrial commissary named Suika @ 3376 18th Street offering healthy Japanese snacks and options and are awaiting for zoning and appropriate approvals.
We are run by Mission residents and employ local residents as well. Currently the building is zoned under Urban Mixed Use and allows for a variety of business types ranging from industrial to commercial to service based business such as restaurants with the appropriate change of use application.
We invite you to read the zoning definitions of the planning department @ http://bit.ly/kvYllp We plan to renovate the current space @ 3376 into 3 parts. A front serving retail cafe, a private gathering space, and an industrial commissary. The small gathering space for private parties, poetry readings, live performances, desk concerts, art events, performances and group meetings at 3376 18th Street. The small intimate space is designed to encourage group activities, art meetings, and social interactions for residents in the community. The space historically was a Chinese noodle factory and contains an existing industrial commissary kitchen and associated equipment.
The commissary currently supports a variety of food based businesses including
Ken Ken Ramen LLC - Japanese Restaurant
Frozen Kustard - Midwestern Frozen custard style dessert
Boba Guys - Quality Tapioca Drinks
Black Magic Kombucha - Organic Kombucha Drinks
San Flan - Quality Japanese Desserts
The central commissary is used throughout the day by different teams in production of products. We have filed for Place of Entertainment and ABC Beer and Wine License for the gathering space SUIKA along with appropriate Building, Electrical, Plumbing and Zoning Permits.
The meeting is to be held January 7th, 2013 at 5pm at 3378 18th Street. This meeting is an informal meeting to discuss ways in which we can work together to improve the neighborhood.
We look forward to meeting with you.
Thank you, Ken Ken Ramen.
3378 18th Street. San Francisco CA 94110
Questions: 415 967 2636
Email: [email protected]
The Treasure Hunter’s Castle. Apartmento Porn of Takahiro Gouko
郷古 隆洋さん 『世界中から発掘したモノたちに囲まれた、蒐集家の城』
Swimsuit Department Store Owner: Takahiro Gouko
Ninjo - 人情 - Human Compassion / Feelings.
Love, affection, compassion and sympathy are the most important feelings that all human beings should nurture. In Japanese society (and most others) - this assumption is highlighted in a desire to create cooperation among people.
In daily life, the code of Ninjo binds ones actions towards other. For example- run out of salt while cooking, and you can visit your neighbor to borrow some. The reaction next door should certainly be very cooperative. Likewise in more complicated life’s events, when you receive you should also give. This give and take attitude is based on the belief in the wisdom of mutual reliance. When all is well with you, you are expected to help others and when you are in need of help, you can count on other. This sense of interdependence in the community is what constitutes ninjo.
We landed in Timbuktu… The town consists of clay houses built on sand. The clay and the sand are the same color, so the town looks like an organic part of the desert - a fragment of the Sahara shaped into rectangular blocks and elevated The heat curdles the blood, paralyzes the body, stuns. I did not encounter a living soul in the narrow streets and back alleys. But I found a house with plaque informing that here, from September 1853 until May 1854, lived Heinrich Barth. Barth was one the greatest travelers in the world. For five years he journeyed alone through the Sahara. Several times, sick and pursued by bandits, he bade his life farewell. Dying of thirst he would cut his veins and drink his own blood to survive. Eventually he returned to Europe, where no one appreciated the unique feat he had accomplished. Bitter, worn out by the hardships of his voyage, he died in 1865 at the age of forty-four, not understanding that the human imagination is incapable of traveling to the frontier he had crossed in the Sahara.
Remi Relief - Indigo French Terry Cardigan.
Spurred by his love of California, avid skater/surfer Yutaka Goto, injects a heavy dose of inspiration from 1970’s California, the Z-boys, and beach culture into his Japanese menswear line, Remi Relief. Under the motto “High Quality of Life”, Remi Relief creates “ultimate American basics” with a fanatical approach to textile development that is exceedingly rare outside of Japan, utilizing intricate dying, print pigment, and vintage finishing techniques.
Japanese Technique + California. Perfect.
Which is hard, because skateboarders are, at our core, assholes. All of us. Skateboarding is assholes running through a city, treating it like the playground it is instead of the money factory the men and women in ties and sweater sets want it to be. Skateboarding is blood and filth and beer and laughter, maybe a nut-slap when one asshole catches another off guard. It’s about shinners and swelbows and sketchy landings that prove how badly you want it. And finally, it’s about cheering madly for a friend who lands a trick even if that trick is easy for you.
Ken Ken Ramen opened a sister bento shop - SUIKA!
Come by! Hours during lunch - 11:30 to 2!!!
Daily bentos that change! Open some nights!
Explore!
3378 18th Street!
Help us catch a Bike Thief Crew!
Above are two frames from our security footage of a karmically screwed bike thief at work! The worst is that suspect look out riding with his styling bike.
That shirt in the 2nd frame helps identify the suspect!
Knowing anything? Recognize anyone? Let us know.
Lets see what we can do!
Herb Alpert: Oh, Miles Davis. I love Miles. Miles was the real thing.
Alec Baldwin: Why?
Herb Alpert: Well, because he was completely authentic. He was just playing the music that was coming out of him – no compromise. He understood space, the silence that happens between the notes. He understood that, and I think he was the key jazz musician of the 20th century…
Tahitian Farmer’s Markets are Sexy.
Ramboutans, Guavas, Breadfruit, Carambola, Oranges, Papayas, Sugarcane, Nape, Noni, Banana, Passion Fruit, lychees, mangos, watermelon, taro, manioc, yams, grapefruits…
Just saying these words brings sweetness to the mouth.
In Tahiti. Explore.
