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It is a city government job, in a place where many artists and musicians are either unconcerned with or directly opposed to city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to actually be one of those artists who did not really feel like the city had anything to offer me,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/kev-choice\">Kev Choice\u003c/a>, a musician and educator who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13875113/oakland-appoints-cultural-affairs-commissioners\">joined the Cultural Arts Commission\u003c/a> in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for artists savvy with grants — or those who get hired or contracted by nonprofits, which is to say nearly all artists in Oakland — the role of a Cultural Affairs Manager provides crucial support. 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Hired in 2016, Bedoya worked as a liaison to other departments, argued against cuts and grant delays, ran the public art program, drafted Oakland’s first-ever cultural plan and, importantly, secured money for the city’s arts and culture sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Tuesday’s protest, Bedoya spoke at the city council meeting to note $1.9 million in federal funds and $5 million in public-private partnerships that he had facilitated, and promised that, even in retirement, “I will help you find revenue.” Before he could finish, his microphone was cut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13957786']The protest and city council meeting on Tuesday stood in stark contrast to the news that, across the Bay, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13978179/san-francisco-artist-grants-sfac-2025-2026\">San Francisco had awarded more than $10 million in grants to artists and arts organizations\u003c/a> just that morning. Vanessa Whang, the chair of Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Commission, said the grants showed that San Francisco’s leaders were being “smart” about their priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though they are also facing deficits, they understand an investment in the arts and culture sector is what is going to make the city come back,” Whang said, noting the revenue-generating impact of the arts. “The most positive narrative that we have for Oakland right now is our culture. 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Raquel Iglesias, the former cultural funding coordinator who managed the grants program for five years, said that she and Bedoya had urged city administrators to issue grants in 2024 that were delayed, causing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13957786/oakland-art-and-soul-festival-canceled\">cancellation of events like the annual Art & Soul Festival\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Iglesias said, the Cultural Affairs Divison was given no access to general fund monies for grants. “We had just roughly $180,000 in hotel tax money that we gave out in \u003cem>tiny\u003c/em> grants,” Iglesias explained, adding that she and another staff member had as of last week raised roughly $600,000 from private foundations to backfill the money that the city rescinded for general operating grantees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Symphony CEO Mieko Hatano, jazz musician and educator John Santos and Living Jazz executive director Lyz Luke joined those who spoke at the council meeting. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In most American municipalities, the elimination of one management job in city government would hardly garner notice. But Oakland is not most American municipalities, which explains why, at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, more than 30 people had gathered on the steps of City Hall to call for reinstating the staff position of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11976824/oakland-hires-its-first-cultural-affairs-manager\">Cultural Affairs Manager\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As simply as I can put it, the arts will not get by without this position,” said Cat Brooks, the Oakland artist, activist and previous mayoral candidate. “Anyone who is in the town, lives in the town or loves the town knows that arts and culture is our heartbeat. So if you’re interested in the heartbeat of Oakland, this position matters to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It marked the third straight week of organized protests against the elimination of the position in Oakland’s latest budget, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043553/alternative-oakland-budget-aims-to-halt-fire-station-closures-boost-police-staffing\">adopted by city council\u003c/a> on June 11. New city expenditures, which cutting the Cultural Affairs Manager would help pay for, include $1.4 million in sideshow prevention, $1 million for the establishment of entertainment zones and an increase to police staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-01-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks speaks at a rally outside of Oakland City Hall protesting the elimination of the Cultural Affairs Manager position from the city budget on July 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Explaining the need for a Cultural Affairs Manager to the average citizen poses a challenge, several attendees noted. It is a city government job, in a place where many artists and musicians are either unconcerned with or directly opposed to city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to actually be one of those artists who did not really feel like the city had anything to offer me,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/kev-choice\">Kev Choice\u003c/a>, a musician and educator who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13875113/oakland-appoints-cultural-affairs-commissioners\">joined the Cultural Arts Commission\u003c/a> in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for artists savvy with grants — or those who get hired or contracted by nonprofits, which is to say nearly all artists in Oakland — the role of a Cultural Affairs Manager provides crucial support. Equal parts advocate, fundraiser, intermediary and ambassador, its impact more than justifies its \u003ca href=\"https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=roberto+bedoya&y=\">$170,000 annual salary\u003c/a>, attendees on Tuesday said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978249\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-09-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired Cultural Affairs Manager Roberto Bedoya gives public comment at an Oakland City Council meeting advocating against the elimination of the Cultural Affairs Manager position from the city budget in Oakland on July 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most people spoke highly of Roberto Bedoya, the former Cultural Affairs Manager who retired in 2024. Hired in 2016, Bedoya worked as a liaison to other departments, argued against cuts and grant delays, ran the public art program, drafted Oakland’s first-ever cultural plan and, importantly, secured money for the city’s arts and culture sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Tuesday’s protest, Bedoya spoke at the city council meeting to note $1.9 million in federal funds and $5 million in public-private partnerships that he had facilitated, and promised that, even in retirement, “I will help you find revenue.” Before he could finish, his microphone was cut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The protest and city council meeting on Tuesday stood in stark contrast to the news that, across the Bay, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13978179/san-francisco-artist-grants-sfac-2025-2026\">San Francisco had awarded more than $10 million in grants to artists and arts organizations\u003c/a> just that morning. Vanessa Whang, the chair of Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Commission, said the grants showed that San Francisco’s leaders were being “smart” about their priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though they are also facing deficits, they understand an investment in the arts and culture sector is what is going to make the city come back,” Whang said, noting the revenue-generating impact of the arts. “The most positive narrative that we have for Oakland right now is our culture. That’s why we get mentioned in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-10-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250701-OAKLAND-ARTS-FUNDING-PROTEST-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vaenssa Whang, chair of the Oakland Cultural Affairs Commission, gives public comment at an Oakland City Council meeting advocating against the elimination of the Cultural Affairs Manager position from the city budget in Oakland on July 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The grants in San Francisco are funded by a hotel tax similar to Oakland’s hotel and lodging tax. 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"content": "\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/\">San Francisco’s official Pride celebration\u003c/a> takes over the Civic Center this weekend (with headlining sets by Michaela Jaé on Saturday and Saucy Santana on Sunday), and Friday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.transmarch.org/\">Trans March\u003c/a> and Saturday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045907/sf-dyke-march-returns-in-full-force-for-pride-weekend-with-inclusivity-at-its-core\">Dyke March\u003c/a> anchor the festivities at Dolores Park, the city will be filled with queer people of every persuasion and revelry on pretty much every corner, all weekend long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help plan your \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/pride\">Pride\u003c/a> weekend, we’ve rounded up 10 of the hottest parties worthy of adding to your calendar. Remember to stay hydrated, make sure to check the venues’ Instagrams for deets about other parties throughout the weekend, and as always, bring dollar bills to tip your performers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13915270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56905_001_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56905_001_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56905_001_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56905_001_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56905_001_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56905_001_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56905_001_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants in the Trans March fill Market Street in San Francisco on June 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://tockify.com/elriosf2/detail/3895/1751072400000\">Bustin’ Out: Official Trans March Afterparty Against the Prison Industrial Complex\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>El Rio, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 27, 6 p.m.–2 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>$30\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nWith relentless legislative attacks on trans rights underway this year, the Trans March reminds us that Pride has always been a protest. Its official afterparty is a benefit for the \u003ca href=\"https://tgijp.org/\">Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project\u003c/a>, which supports currently and formerly incarcerated trans people. Their work is more crucial than ever as President Trump’s executive order recognizing only two “biological sexes” has relegated trans women to men’s prisons, where they face extreme risk of abuse. DJs Blaize, Based Grace and ASL Princess will get the dance party started at historic queer bar El Rio, known far and wide for its affordable drinks and laid-back patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978012\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miss International Queen contestant Kataluna Enriquez of the USA is wearing her national costume to compete in the national costume category of the Miss International Queen 2024 transgender beauty contest in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(nusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jolenessf.com/events-tickets\">Trans National and UHaul\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jolene’s and Reverb, San Francisco \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 27, 9 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>$20 and $30, or $40 for both parties\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nWhen it comes to sexy dance parties for women who love women, Jolene’s is a San Francisco go-to. On Friday, after the Trans March, the bar will host Trans National, with a lineup including DJs Louie El Ser and Artkoi, performer Epiphany Kali, go-go dancers and a special appearance from Kataluna Enriquez, the first trans woman to be crowned Miss USA. 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Either way, Beaux in the Castro is a top destination for drag brunches all weekend long. Their Saturday party still has space available, and features Nami Flare, Pony Bambino, Biddy Bee, Sexxen City and DJ Dakota Pendent. [aside postid='science_1997477']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/le-femmes-tickets-1406665447219\">Le Femmes\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Stud, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 28, 9 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>$28\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nWhile right-wing billionaires attempt to divide and conquer, a united front of dolls, twinks and bimbos has the potential to save the world — or at least put on a great party. That’s the premise of Le Femmes, a drag party starring Britney Smears (the alter-ego of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13970682/soft-core-takes-readers-on-a-delirious-ride-through-sfs-kinky-underground\">\u003ci>Soft Core\u003c/i>\u003c/a> author Brittany Newell), Bettyie Jane, Melanie Sparks and Evian, with DJs Chelsea Starr, Finish Her and Goyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/7zgU_mOVInE?si=dCK6c3k0nP0THsLg\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bearracuda-san-francisco-pride-2025-tickets-1217134665549\">Bearracuda\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Public Works, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 28, 9 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>$36\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nBearracuda promises 1,000 underwear-clad men at this epic blowout. 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Its official afterparty is a benefit for the \u003ca href=\"https://tgijp.org/\">Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project\u003c/a>, which supports currently and formerly incarcerated trans people. Their work is more crucial than ever as President Trump’s executive order recognizing only two “biological sexes” has relegated trans women to men’s prisons, where they face extreme risk of abuse. DJs Blaize, Based Grace and ASL Princess will get the dance party started at historic queer bar El Rio, known far and wide for its affordable drinks and laid-back patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978012\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GettyImages-2166374823-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miss International Queen contestant Kataluna Enriquez of the USA is wearing her national costume to compete in the national costume category of the Miss International Queen 2024 transgender beauty contest in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(nusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jolenessf.com/events-tickets\">Trans National and UHaul\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jolene’s and Reverb, San Francisco \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 27, 9 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>$20 and $30, or $40 for both parties\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nWhen it comes to sexy dance parties for women who love women, Jolene’s is a San Francisco go-to. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]lash back to 2015, when the hottest restaurant in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/oakland\">Oakland’s\u003c/a> Dimond District wasn’t a trendy Asian fusion spot, or a Michelin-endorsed palace of fine dining, or a temple to California cuisine. It wasn’t even a proper restaurant, really. Instead, crowds of hungry people would line up inside the Two Star Market liquor store on MacArthur for a taste of slow-roasted pernil, grilled chicken thighs with garlic and caramelized onions, and fragrant, annatto-stained arroz con gandules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The liquor store takeout spot was called \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/borinquen-soul-dishes-out-puerto-rican-grandma-food-inside-an-oakland-convenience-store-2-1/\">Borinquen Soul\u003c/a>, and it specialized in what founders Eric “E” Rivera and Chris Caraballo liked to call “food for the homesick boricua.” At the time, it was the only Puerto Rican restaurant in the East Bay, and even though the place didn’t really have any seating to speak of, it routinely drew customers from as far away as Stockton and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it just kind of disappeared. When Borinquen Soul closed in 2017, the two owners went their separate ways, and Rivera opened a new restaurant, W.E.P.A.!, that lasted less than a year. After that, nothing. Seven years passed without any word from the business. No explanation was ever given for why it had closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until a couple of months ago, that is. That was when Rivera, aka Chef E, suddenly reemerged at a little \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DHb5KNvypBd/\">pop-up takeout window in Vallejo\u003c/a>, where for a short time he was selling the same food I remembered from all those years ago — the same yellow rice flecked with pigeon peas and pimento olives, the ultra-crisp tostones and tangy mayuketchu. And if all goes according to plan, next month Rivera will complete his comeback. He’s opening a new restaurant in East Oakland’s San Antonio neighborhood called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/puertoricanstreetcuisine/\">Puerto Rican Street Cuisine\u003c/a> that’ll serve all of the old favorites from Borinquen Soul. It will once again be the only full-fledged Puerto Rican restaurant in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Puerto-Rican-Street-Cuisine_EG_27_qed.jpg\" alt='Two men stand on the roof of a restaurant holding a large Puerto Rican flag. The sign on the restaurant reads, \"Puerto Rican Street Cuisine.\"' width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Puerto-Rican-Street-Cuisine_EG_27_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Puerto-Rican-Street-Cuisine_EG_27_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Puerto-Rican-Street-Cuisine_EG_27_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Puerto-Rican-Street-Cuisine_EG_27_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chefs Eric Rivera (center) and Chris Lopez and stand on the roof of the 23rd Avenue restaurant in East Oakland. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This place is going to be an incredible spot in these next few months, where you can just get the best of the best food,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as it turns out, there was a good reason why Rivera put his business on pause for seven years: He spent most of that time in jail, awaiting trial for a crime he says he didn’t commit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Life-Changing Turn of Events\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Born and bred in the Bronx, Rivera moved to the Bay Area to live with his aunt when he was a teenager, graduating from Independence High School in San Jose in the early ’90s. Back then, he was an up-and-coming rapper, performing under the name Mookie D. He was a member of the San Jose rap crew \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7SMjhzvxQ4\">Red Black & Green\u003c/a>, which put out an EP produced by KutMasta Kurt. He was good friends with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13868241/sway-calloways-free-block-party-celebrates-oaklands-cultural-well\">Sway Calloway\u003c/a>, too, in those early years before Sway became one of the hip-hop world’s most prominent interviewers and tastemakers — Rivera even wound up rapping on one of the first episodes of Sway’s \u003ci>Wake Up Show\u003c/i> on KMEL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After high school, Rivera moved back to New York before returning to the Bay for good in 2008, dabbling in different jobs before he got serious about cooking. He was an amateur MMA fighter for a time and then worked as a strength and conditioning coach for the Oakland Raiders. In 2012, he and fellow Bronx transplant Chris Caraballo officially launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/borinquensoulwepa/\">Borinquen Soul\u003c/a>, initially as a food truck — the very first Puerto Rican food truck in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, Rivera recalls, it was just about impossible to find proper Puerto Rican food in the Bay: “When we came from New York, we got homesick right away. The food here wasn’t hitting home.” He and Caraballo started pulling up to Bay Area nightclubs, blasting loud salsa music from the truck when the clubs were letting out for the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977875\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977875\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_16-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rivera prepares a plate of food for workers at the businesses surrounding his restaurant. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It just became an overnight hit,” Rivera says. “People were hitting us up like, ‘Bro, I don’t know how to pronounce your name, but man, that was the best food I ever had!’ It was just the best feeling in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck quickly built up a large fan base, which stayed loyal through the business’ remarkable three-year run inside the Two Star Market liquor store, from 2015 to 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, then, the summer of 2018 was the high point of Rivera’s cooking career. Even though he’d closed Borinquen Soul after parting ways with Caraballo, his new restaurant, W.E.P.A.! (Where Everybody Parties At), was already \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/wepa-at-brix-581-rises-from-the-ashes-of-borinquen-soul-2-1/\">making a name for itself\u003c/a> with its menu of homey Puerto Rican dishes served inside a Jack London nightclub. Then came the ultimate validation: In June of that year, W.E.P.A.! got the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1oCNZuaF4I&t=247s\">\u003ci>Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives \u003c/i>treatment\u003c/a>, as the Bleached One himself gave Rivera’s loaded plantains and chicken chicharron mofongo the Flavortown stamp of approval. For a small, relatively unknown restaurant like Rivera’s, that kind of national TV exposure had the potential to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.eater.com/2018/12/20/18150707/guy-fieri-diners-drive-ins-and-dives-good-for-restaurant-business\">life-changing\u003c/a>. “It was like a dream come true, man,” Rivera recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977878\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_23-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A tray of fried plantains under a heat lamp.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_23-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_23-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_23-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_23-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tray of tostones and fried sweet plantains kept warm under a heat lamp. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just a month later, that dream turned into a nightmare. Rivera says he was getting ready to open the restaurant on a Thursday afternoon when police officers showed up — without a warrant, he says — and grabbed him in the doorway. Rivera was arrested on a robbery charge and wound up serving five and a half years behind bars for a crime he insists he didn’t commit. He says there was even video evidence that proved he was at his restaurant the night the robbery took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera eventually signed a plea deal, though, after he’d already been held in Dublin’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945438/community-and-civil-rights-groups-hold-vigil-and-rally-over-recent-deaths-at-santa-rita-jail\">notoriously dangerous\u003c/a> Santa Rita Jail for four years without a trial. He says Alameda County prosecutors kept finding reasons to postpone the trial — a sign, he believes, that they knew they didn’t have a case. Still, the long years and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11918230/grand-jury-major-health-and-safety-violations-at-santa-rita-jail-require-urgent-attention\">awful conditions\u003c/a> in jail had worn him down. Rivera’s mother passed away while he was at Santa Rita. And like many of the inmates there, he spent most of his time in “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/prisoners-rights/i-spent-16-months-solitary-confinement-and-now-im\">23 and 1\u003c/a>” solitary confinement, trapped inside his own thoughts, allowed outside his cell for only one hour a day. Rivera says prosecutors led him to believe that if he signed the plea agreement, he would be set free right away on time served. Instead, he wound up spending another year and a half in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole ordeal turned Rivera into something of an activist. Toward the end of his time at Santa Rita, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/protest-at-santa-rita-jail-over-inedible-food-and-sheriffs-profit-on-rising-commissary-prices\">participated in a hunger strike\u003c/a> to protest the inedible, often rat-feces-infested food there (now the subject of a \u003ca href=\"https://clearinghouse.net/case/17341/\">class action lawsuit\u003c/a> that he’s joined). He’s also preparing to file civil lawsuits against both OPD and the California Parole Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Rivera believes his time in prison ultimately helped him to become a better, stronger person. He’d once turned a bit of common Puerto Rican slang — “\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/what-wepa-puerto-rico-aid-bill-named-slang-means-cool-704857\">wepa\u003c/a>,” meaning “cool” or “all right!” — into a restaurant concept. One day, while he was in solitary lockdown, a new acronym appeared to him in a vision. Instead of lamenting, “why me,” Rivera spun those letters into a more positive mindset: “Whatever Happens, You Must Embrace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I focused on how do I make myself better,” he says. “That’s essentially what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977872\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Pink beans strained in a colander held over a large pot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_09-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Habichuelas guisa — pink beans stewed in a sofrito base. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And, as it turns out, he was able to start cooking again. Rivera says he was put in jail so soon after his feature on \u003ci>Diners, Drive-ins & Dives\u003c/i> that the episode was still airing regularly. When he was transferred to the state prison in Jamestown, a prison officer who had seen the show recognized him and said, “Man, I know you! What are you doing here?” The prison officer wound up recruiting Rivera to cook in the Jamestown prison kitchen, which he agreed to do — feeding 3,000 inmates at a time — as long as they let him make Puerto Rican food. Eventually, he was transferred over to become the head chef at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/ben-lomond/\">Ben Lomond fire camp\u003c/a>, in the Santa Cruz mountains, where he was tasked with cooking for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021720/californias-reliance-on-incarcerated-firefighters-sparks-debate-over-low-pay-and-dangerous-work\">incarcerated firefighters\u003c/a> assigned to battle the region’s ongoing wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was cooking yellow rice. I was cooking carne guisa. We were doing habichuelas guisa,” Rivera says, laughing. “We were giving them the best food they ever had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An Improbable Comeback\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since getting out of prison in December of 2023, Rivera says he’s been slowly working his way back into the Bay Area food scene, doing a handful of pop-ups and festivals and picking up catering jobs here and there. The whole time he’s been struck by just how many customers he’s run into who still have fond memories of Borinquen Soul — of snagging a piece of crispy pork skin from the Two Star Market location’s weekend pernil or, even earlier, buying chicken-and-rice plates off the food truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13972834,arts_13960344,arts_13920581']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>For a tiny liquor store food operation that was only open for three years, Borinquen Soul had an outsized impact on the local food ecosystem. In fact, almost every notable Puerto Rican restaurant or food truck that’s opened in the Bay Area in the past decade has ties to that tiny convenience store kitchen. Anthony Lamboy of Boriqua Kitchen, the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13960344/puerto-rican-food-truck-boriqua-kitchen-bay-area-richmond\">only active Puerto Rican food truck\u003c/a>, did a stint at Borinquen Soul before branching out to open his own business. Cheo Ortiz, the chef-owner of La Perla, also started out as a cook there before taking over the Two Star Market’s kitchen once Borinquen Soul closed. He eventually expanded La Perla into a full-fledged Puerto Rican restaurant — \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2021/2/1/22256408/la-perla-puerto-rican-restaurant-oakland-opening\">Oakland’s only one\u003c/a> until it relocated to Castro Valley \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DGFfaNdxfJr/?hl=en\">earlier this year\u003c/a>. And Lourdes Marquez-Nau, aka Chef Lulu, of vegan Puerto Rican spot \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/casaborinquena/\">Casa Borinqueña\u003c/a>, used to work the festival circuit with Rivera during that earlier food truck iteration of Borinquen Soul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Call it the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nba.com/news/gregg-popovich-hall-of-fame-profile-2023\">Greg Popovich coaching tree\u003c/a> of Puerto Rican chefs in the Bay. As Rivera puts it, “Borinquen Soul was a big springboard for a lot of people to do really, really well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two chefs add sliced onions to a big pot of stew.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_11-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rivera (center) and Lopez work on a big batch of pollo guisado. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rivera says he’s still close with all of those chefs. Just last week, Lamboy came over to the new spot to help him raise a Puerto Rican flag up on the roof. Meanwhile, Marquez-Nau, who just opened a second location of her restaurant \u003ca href=\"https://billypenn.com/2025/06/10/casa-borinquena-philly-vegan-puerto-rican-food-east-kensington/\">in Philadelphia\u003c/a>, recalls that she first got to know Rivera mostly as a customer — she, too, was a homesick New York boriqua who was craving real Puerto Rican food. She wound up helping out with the food truck, and when she decided to open her own business, Rivera came and showed her staff how to make the dough for alpacurrias (stuffed plantain fritters).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s like a brother,” Marquez-Nau says. “I will support Eric any way I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera’s hope, of course, is that Puerto Rican Street Cuisine will be a similarly impactful restaurant — both for the local East Oakland community as well as the Bay Area’s wider Puerto Rican diaspora. To start, the restaurant will function just as a simple takeout window. He’ll sell all of the big Puerto Rican staples he used to serve at Borinquen Soul: pernil, chicken encebollado, carne guisa, arroz con gandules, empanadas, pasteles, alpacurrias, and both sweet and savory plantains. He’ll serve his signature dishes that \u003ci>Diners, Drive-ins & Dives \u003c/i>made famous, too — the canoa (loaded plantains) and the fried-chicken mofongo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977879\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The back of a red chef's jacket. The text above the palm tree logo reads, "Puerto Rican Street Cuisine."\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_24-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_24-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rivera’s custom chef’s jacket. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a couple of months, he hopes to open for dine-in customers as well. There’s also a whole outdoor area in the back that he says is like a “hidden oasis,” where he eventually hopes to host private events, putting to use his custom slow cooker that can roast four pigs at once. And who knows? Eventually he’d like to expand to other locations as well, using his East Oakland flagship as a central hub to train his staff, just as he once taught other inmates to cook when he was the head chef in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, Rivera’s journey to opening this new restaurant seems incredibly improbable after all these years. But he has lived and persevered through so many different lives already — a son of the Bronx, a rapper, a fighter, a coach, a chef, an entrepreneur, a prison activist, and now a chef once again. Who’s to say he’s done reinventing himself?\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/puertoricanstreetcuisine/\">\u003ci>Puerto Rican Street Cuisine\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> will likely have its soft opening around the second week of July at 1430 23rd Ave. in Oakland. To start out, the restaurant will be open for takeout only.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">F\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>lash back to 2015, when the hottest restaurant in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/oakland\">Oakland’s\u003c/a> Dimond District wasn’t a trendy Asian fusion spot, or a Michelin-endorsed palace of fine dining, or a temple to California cuisine. It wasn’t even a proper restaurant, really. Instead, crowds of hungry people would line up inside the Two Star Market liquor store on MacArthur for a taste of slow-roasted pernil, grilled chicken thighs with garlic and caramelized onions, and fragrant, annatto-stained arroz con gandules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The liquor store takeout spot was called \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/borinquen-soul-dishes-out-puerto-rican-grandma-food-inside-an-oakland-convenience-store-2-1/\">Borinquen Soul\u003c/a>, and it specialized in what founders Eric “E” Rivera and Chris Caraballo liked to call “food for the homesick boricua.” At the time, it was the only Puerto Rican restaurant in the East Bay, and even though the place didn’t really have any seating to speak of, it routinely drew customers from as far away as Stockton and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it just kind of disappeared. When Borinquen Soul closed in 2017, the two owners went their separate ways, and Rivera opened a new restaurant, W.E.P.A.!, that lasted less than a year. After that, nothing. Seven years passed without any word from the business. No explanation was ever given for why it had closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until a couple of months ago, that is. That was when Rivera, aka Chef E, suddenly reemerged at a little \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DHb5KNvypBd/\">pop-up takeout window in Vallejo\u003c/a>, where for a short time he was selling the same food I remembered from all those years ago — the same yellow rice flecked with pigeon peas and pimento olives, the ultra-crisp tostones and tangy mayuketchu. And if all goes according to plan, next month Rivera will complete his comeback. He’s opening a new restaurant in East Oakland’s San Antonio neighborhood called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/puertoricanstreetcuisine/\">Puerto Rican Street Cuisine\u003c/a> that’ll serve all of the old favorites from Borinquen Soul. It will once again be the only full-fledged Puerto Rican restaurant in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Puerto-Rican-Street-Cuisine_EG_27_qed.jpg\" alt='Two men stand on the roof of a restaurant holding a large Puerto Rican flag. The sign on the restaurant reads, \"Puerto Rican Street Cuisine.\"' width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Puerto-Rican-Street-Cuisine_EG_27_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Puerto-Rican-Street-Cuisine_EG_27_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Puerto-Rican-Street-Cuisine_EG_27_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Puerto-Rican-Street-Cuisine_EG_27_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chefs Eric Rivera (center) and Chris Lopez and stand on the roof of the 23rd Avenue restaurant in East Oakland. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This place is going to be an incredible spot in these next few months, where you can just get the best of the best food,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as it turns out, there was a good reason why Rivera put his business on pause for seven years: He spent most of that time in jail, awaiting trial for a crime he says he didn’t commit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Life-Changing Turn of Events\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Born and bred in the Bronx, Rivera moved to the Bay Area to live with his aunt when he was a teenager, graduating from Independence High School in San Jose in the early ’90s. Back then, he was an up-and-coming rapper, performing under the name Mookie D. He was a member of the San Jose rap crew \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7SMjhzvxQ4\">Red Black & Green\u003c/a>, which put out an EP produced by KutMasta Kurt. He was good friends with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13868241/sway-calloways-free-block-party-celebrates-oaklands-cultural-well\">Sway Calloway\u003c/a>, too, in those early years before Sway became one of the hip-hop world’s most prominent interviewers and tastemakers — Rivera even wound up rapping on one of the first episodes of Sway’s \u003ci>Wake Up Show\u003c/i> on KMEL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After high school, Rivera moved back to New York before returning to the Bay for good in 2008, dabbling in different jobs before he got serious about cooking. He was an amateur MMA fighter for a time and then worked as a strength and conditioning coach for the Oakland Raiders. In 2012, he and fellow Bronx transplant Chris Caraballo officially launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/borinquensoulwepa/\">Borinquen Soul\u003c/a>, initially as a food truck — the very first Puerto Rican food truck in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, Rivera recalls, it was just about impossible to find proper Puerto Rican food in the Bay: “When we came from New York, we got homesick right away. The food here wasn’t hitting home.” He and Caraballo started pulling up to Bay Area nightclubs, blasting loud salsa music from the truck when the clubs were letting out for the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977875\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977875\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_16-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rivera prepares a plate of food for workers at the businesses surrounding his restaurant. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It just became an overnight hit,” Rivera says. “People were hitting us up like, ‘Bro, I don’t know how to pronounce your name, but man, that was the best food I ever had!’ It was just the best feeling in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck quickly built up a large fan base, which stayed loyal through the business’ remarkable three-year run inside the Two Star Market liquor store, from 2015 to 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, then, the summer of 2018 was the high point of Rivera’s cooking career. Even though he’d closed Borinquen Soul after parting ways with Caraballo, his new restaurant, W.E.P.A.! (Where Everybody Parties At), was already \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/wepa-at-brix-581-rises-from-the-ashes-of-borinquen-soul-2-1/\">making a name for itself\u003c/a> with its menu of homey Puerto Rican dishes served inside a Jack London nightclub. Then came the ultimate validation: In June of that year, W.E.P.A.! got the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1oCNZuaF4I&t=247s\">\u003ci>Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives \u003c/i>treatment\u003c/a>, as the Bleached One himself gave Rivera’s loaded plantains and chicken chicharron mofongo the Flavortown stamp of approval. For a small, relatively unknown restaurant like Rivera’s, that kind of national TV exposure had the potential to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.eater.com/2018/12/20/18150707/guy-fieri-diners-drive-ins-and-dives-good-for-restaurant-business\">life-changing\u003c/a>. “It was like a dream come true, man,” Rivera recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977878\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_23-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A tray of fried plantains under a heat lamp.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_23-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_23-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_23-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_23-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tray of tostones and fried sweet plantains kept warm under a heat lamp. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just a month later, that dream turned into a nightmare. Rivera says he was getting ready to open the restaurant on a Thursday afternoon when police officers showed up — without a warrant, he says — and grabbed him in the doorway. Rivera was arrested on a robbery charge and wound up serving five and a half years behind bars for a crime he insists he didn’t commit. He says there was even video evidence that proved he was at his restaurant the night the robbery took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera eventually signed a plea deal, though, after he’d already been held in Dublin’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945438/community-and-civil-rights-groups-hold-vigil-and-rally-over-recent-deaths-at-santa-rita-jail\">notoriously dangerous\u003c/a> Santa Rita Jail for four years without a trial. He says Alameda County prosecutors kept finding reasons to postpone the trial — a sign, he believes, that they knew they didn’t have a case. Still, the long years and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11918230/grand-jury-major-health-and-safety-violations-at-santa-rita-jail-require-urgent-attention\">awful conditions\u003c/a> in jail had worn him down. Rivera’s mother passed away while he was at Santa Rita. And like many of the inmates there, he spent most of his time in “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/prisoners-rights/i-spent-16-months-solitary-confinement-and-now-im\">23 and 1\u003c/a>” solitary confinement, trapped inside his own thoughts, allowed outside his cell for only one hour a day. Rivera says prosecutors led him to believe that if he signed the plea agreement, he would be set free right away on time served. Instead, he wound up spending another year and a half in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole ordeal turned Rivera into something of an activist. Toward the end of his time at Santa Rita, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/protest-at-santa-rita-jail-over-inedible-food-and-sheriffs-profit-on-rising-commissary-prices\">participated in a hunger strike\u003c/a> to protest the inedible, often rat-feces-infested food there (now the subject of a \u003ca href=\"https://clearinghouse.net/case/17341/\">class action lawsuit\u003c/a> that he’s joined). He’s also preparing to file civil lawsuits against both OPD and the California Parole Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Rivera believes his time in prison ultimately helped him to become a better, stronger person. He’d once turned a bit of common Puerto Rican slang — “\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/what-wepa-puerto-rico-aid-bill-named-slang-means-cool-704857\">wepa\u003c/a>,” meaning “cool” or “all right!” — into a restaurant concept. One day, while he was in solitary lockdown, a new acronym appeared to him in a vision. Instead of lamenting, “why me,” Rivera spun those letters into a more positive mindset: “Whatever Happens, You Must Embrace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I focused on how do I make myself better,” he says. “That’s essentially what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977872\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Pink beans strained in a colander held over a large pot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_09-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Habichuelas guisa — pink beans stewed in a sofrito base. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And, as it turns out, he was able to start cooking again. Rivera says he was put in jail so soon after his feature on \u003ci>Diners, Drive-ins & Dives\u003c/i> that the episode was still airing regularly. When he was transferred to the state prison in Jamestown, a prison officer who had seen the show recognized him and said, “Man, I know you! What are you doing here?” The prison officer wound up recruiting Rivera to cook in the Jamestown prison kitchen, which he agreed to do — feeding 3,000 inmates at a time — as long as they let him make Puerto Rican food. Eventually, he was transferred over to become the head chef at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/ben-lomond/\">Ben Lomond fire camp\u003c/a>, in the Santa Cruz mountains, where he was tasked with cooking for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021720/californias-reliance-on-incarcerated-firefighters-sparks-debate-over-low-pay-and-dangerous-work\">incarcerated firefighters\u003c/a> assigned to battle the region’s ongoing wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was cooking yellow rice. I was cooking carne guisa. We were doing habichuelas guisa,” Rivera says, laughing. “We were giving them the best food they ever had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An Improbable Comeback\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since getting out of prison in December of 2023, Rivera says he’s been slowly working his way back into the Bay Area food scene, doing a handful of pop-ups and festivals and picking up catering jobs here and there. The whole time he’s been struck by just how many customers he’s run into who still have fond memories of Borinquen Soul — of snagging a piece of crispy pork skin from the Two Star Market location’s weekend pernil or, even earlier, buying chicken-and-rice plates off the food truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>For a tiny liquor store food operation that was only open for three years, Borinquen Soul had an outsized impact on the local food ecosystem. In fact, almost every notable Puerto Rican restaurant or food truck that’s opened in the Bay Area in the past decade has ties to that tiny convenience store kitchen. Anthony Lamboy of Boriqua Kitchen, the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13960344/puerto-rican-food-truck-boriqua-kitchen-bay-area-richmond\">only active Puerto Rican food truck\u003c/a>, did a stint at Borinquen Soul before branching out to open his own business. Cheo Ortiz, the chef-owner of La Perla, also started out as a cook there before taking over the Two Star Market’s kitchen once Borinquen Soul closed. He eventually expanded La Perla into a full-fledged Puerto Rican restaurant — \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2021/2/1/22256408/la-perla-puerto-rican-restaurant-oakland-opening\">Oakland’s only one\u003c/a> until it relocated to Castro Valley \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DGFfaNdxfJr/?hl=en\">earlier this year\u003c/a>. And Lourdes Marquez-Nau, aka Chef Lulu, of vegan Puerto Rican spot \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/casaborinquena/\">Casa Borinqueña\u003c/a>, used to work the festival circuit with Rivera during that earlier food truck iteration of Borinquen Soul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Call it the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nba.com/news/gregg-popovich-hall-of-fame-profile-2023\">Greg Popovich coaching tree\u003c/a> of Puerto Rican chefs in the Bay. As Rivera puts it, “Borinquen Soul was a big springboard for a lot of people to do really, really well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two chefs add sliced onions to a big pot of stew.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_11-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rivera (center) and Lopez work on a big batch of pollo guisado. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rivera says he’s still close with all of those chefs. Just last week, Lamboy came over to the new spot to help him raise a Puerto Rican flag up on the roof. Meanwhile, Marquez-Nau, who just opened a second location of her restaurant \u003ca href=\"https://billypenn.com/2025/06/10/casa-borinquena-philly-vegan-puerto-rican-food-east-kensington/\">in Philadelphia\u003c/a>, recalls that she first got to know Rivera mostly as a customer — she, too, was a homesick New York boriqua who was craving real Puerto Rican food. She wound up helping out with the food truck, and when she decided to open her own business, Rivera came and showed her staff how to make the dough for alpacurrias (stuffed plantain fritters).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s like a brother,” Marquez-Nau says. “I will support Eric any way I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera’s hope, of course, is that Puerto Rican Street Cuisine will be a similarly impactful restaurant — both for the local East Oakland community as well as the Bay Area’s wider Puerto Rican diaspora. To start, the restaurant will function just as a simple takeout window. He’ll sell all of the big Puerto Rican staples he used to serve at Borinquen Soul: pernil, chicken encebollado, carne guisa, arroz con gandules, empanadas, pasteles, alpacurrias, and both sweet and savory plantains. He’ll serve his signature dishes that \u003ci>Diners, Drive-ins & Dives \u003c/i>made famous, too — the canoa (loaded plantains) and the fried-chicken mofongo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977879\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The back of a red chef's jacket. The text above the palm tree logo reads, "Puerto Rican Street Cuisine."\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_24-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/PUERTO-RICAN-STREET-CUISINE_EG_24-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rivera’s custom chef’s jacket. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a couple of months, he hopes to open for dine-in customers as well. There’s also a whole outdoor area in the back that he says is like a “hidden oasis,” where he eventually hopes to host private events, putting to use his custom slow cooker that can roast four pigs at once. And who knows? Eventually he’d like to expand to other locations as well, using his East Oakland flagship as a central hub to train his staff, just as he once taught other inmates to cook when he was the head chef in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, Rivera’s journey to opening this new restaurant seems incredibly improbable after all these years. But he has lived and persevered through so many different lives already — a son of the Bronx, a rapper, a fighter, a coach, a chef, an entrepreneur, a prison activist, and now a chef once again. Who’s to say he’s done reinventing himself?\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]rom the 1990s golden age of suburban sprawl, one Bay Area mall remains iconic among \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/filipino\">Filipino\u003c/a> Americans: Serramonte Center in Daly City, aka “Serra-Manila.” Throwback to ‘94, when Jocelyn Enriquez dominated 106.1 KMEL airwaves with her freestyle track “I’ve Been Thinking About You” — the first Pinay from my generation to make it on the radio — and Serramonte was the place to go back-to-school shopping, ask for someone’s pager number, or hard-launch a budding romance by simply holding hands in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a time before cell phones and GPS, if you got lost, you always met up at the fountain in the center of the mall, which was so powerful, it gushed up to the skylight like Old Faithful every half hour. During the busy holiday season, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@danes_panes/video/7472969415697403182?_r=1&_t=ZP-8wuJkYr1Lqh\">it provided a resting place for tired shoppers and grandparents\u003c/a> looking to entertain the kids with a shiny nickel and a wish or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nostalgia couldn’t save Serramonte Center. The reality is that malls all over America have been dying for the past 25 years — pummeled by the Great Recession of 2008, mortally wounded by the rise of e-commerce via Amazon. For many of the Bay Area’s struggling malls, the pandemic was their swan song. At Serramonte, when the big box stores like Macy’s and Montgomery Ward started falling like dominoes, it was only a matter of time before the Spencer’s Gifts and Contempo Casuals followed suit. So, for years now, instead of packs of teens roaming the corridors, the mall has sat mostly empty. Its once-popular restaurants, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/food/history/article/This-Bay-Area-pizza-chain-rose-to-fame-in-the-16378714.php\">Pizza and Pipes\u003c/a> and Elephant Bar or the nearby Peppermill, fell by the wayside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In 2017, the owners even hired consultants to redesign the mall based on feng shui principles, replacing the fountain with Zen-like koi ponds and live turtles on lily pads. None of it made much of a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976955\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13976955\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt='Entrance to a fancy new Korean grocery store. The sign reads, \"Jagalchi.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jagalchi’s arrival marks the beginning of a new — and much more Asian — chapter for Serramonte Center. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, Serramonte Center is hoping to pivot in the same direction as the small handful of Bay Area malls that \u003ci>are\u003c/i> still thriving: It’s going all in on Asian food. Earlier this spring the mall welcomed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jagalchi_official/?hl=en\">Jagalchi\u003c/a>, a glitzy Korean supermarket named after a famous fish market in Busan, sparking long lines in the spot where JCPenney once stood. And for the first time in a long time, it looked like there was hope for Serramonte to plot a comeback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malls all over the Bay Area – and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/asian-malls-us-are-thriving-post-pandemic-bucking-retail-trend-rcna96276\">down in Southern California too\u003c/a> — have followed this same playbook. Stonestown Galleria on the west side of SF was the first place where I noticed it. While the retail apocalypse decimated other malls in the greater San Francisco region, from San Bruno’s ghost town Tanforan Mall to the COVID-crippled San Francisco Centre on Market Street, Stonestown has seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/sf-stonestown-asian-americans-18507747.php\">a resurgence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13976966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Shopping carts bunched up at the entrance to a grocery store.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shopping carts at the entrance to Jagalchi. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>How did it do it? For starters, when the once-beloved Olive Garden and Chevys moved out, Stonestown didn’t replace them with other similarly generic chain restaurants. Instead, it began to welcome unique Asian specialty shops that served Japanese soufflé pancakes, fresh-made udon and Taiwanese fruit teas. It even added a revolving sushi bar, complete with robot servers, to warp you to Tokyo without the need for a passport. Not only did these new restaurants provide a draw, but the long lines and limited hours at places like Matcha Cafe Maiko gave an air of exclusivity that captured shoppers’ attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Asian Americans composing a third of San Francisco’s population, and thanks to Stonestown’s prime location between the Sunset District and SF State, the pivot worked. And we’ve seen other malls follow the same formula: These days, San Jose’s Westfield Valley Fair — probably the most successful mall in the Bay Area — consists almost entirely of restaurants and retail shops geared toward Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976960\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13976960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Shoppers inside an upscale Asian bakery.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customers shop in Jagalchi’s bakery section. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976964\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13976964\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Grocery store shelves full of different varieties of instant ramen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many different varieties of ramen. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I was growing up, Daly City was mainly populated by middle-class Filipino families, who I can proudly say are part of a foodie-obsessed culture. Our geographical proximity to other Asian countries means we can eat Korean BBQ, Singaporean noodles and Vietnamese pho, and wash it down with Thai iced tea — all in the course of a day. Our craving for food is international, and there is no line too long or reservation system too complicated for us to not eventually dominate. So I’m betting that Serramonte Center leaning into its Filipino customers’ insatiable appetite will be the thing that finally makes us get off our couches to pay this old-school, once-forgotten mall another visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, I was invited to Jagalchi’s press preview and got to peruse the aisles sans shoppers, noting what might attract folks from all parts of the Peninsula to its mall location. Though there is no H-Mart-style food court, the supermarket does have a Michelin-pedigreed restaurant onsite and a deli section that offers plenty of samples to try. Each area of the supermarket was spacious, with entire sections dedicated to specialty products that would be relegated to the one “ethnic” aisle at your local Safeway. It wasn’t like Pacific Super on Alemany (RIP), with its cramped aisles and pervasive fishy smell — that was actually my comfort zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976957\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13976957\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A shopper reaches for a package of Kewpie mayonnaise on the grocery store shelf.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author reaches for a package of Kewpie mayonnaise. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976963\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13976963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Packaged grilled eel lunchbox from an Asian grocery store.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1265\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED-800x506.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED-1020x645.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED-768x486.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED-1536x972.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED-1920x1214.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grilled eel dupbap, one of the many prepared meals sold at Jagalchi’s deli section. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I stuffed my face with free kimbap and bulgogi samples like only an SF public school kid could. Meanwhile, the special press dinner at the sit-down restaurant, POGU, left much to be desired (it was all cold!). So I planned on coming back when Jagalchi was actually open to see how the rest of the mall fared in comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13956683,arts_13974308,arts_13939383']\u003c/span>A couple weekends ago, I pulled up to Serramonte’s food court parking lot and slowly made my way toward the other side of the mall, where Jagalchi was. What I noticed were more and more Asian food businesses I hadn’t seen before. First, I grabbed a still-warm madeleine muffin from Uncle Tetsu, which specializes in Japanese cheesecakes. To its right, a sign advertised the Izumi revolving sushi bar, coming soon. And as I reached the once-famous fountain, I saw it had been replaced by a mochi donut stand, what was left of the fountain now reduced to a mere trickle. The mall is now also home to the Taiwanese bakery chain 85C, a Korean hot dog kiosk and a stand selling trendy Dubai chocolate strawberry cups. And in the mall’s southern wing, where Jagalchi is housed, I was greeted by a huge billboard for the much-heralded Koi Palace dim sum restaurant, which is moving its flagship from its Gellert Boulevard location to the mall next year, nearly doubling its seating capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, Serramonte’s Asian pivot is already well underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even on a regular weekend, Jagalchi was still bustling in comparison to the rest of Serramonte, and for now, foot traffic doesn’t seem to have increased much. Only time will tell if new businesses like the dim sum palace and the revolving sushi restaurant will draw customers to the rest of the mall, the way Stonestown’s specialty food court has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976959\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13976959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits in a mall foot court holding a madeleine cake.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author tries a madeleine from Uncle Tetsu, a Japanese bakery specializing in cheesecake. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing I did miss was the makeshift Sari Sari store that once stood where the mochi donut spot is now — a quaint Filipino snack stand in the center of the mall. With all the new Asian businesses moving in, none of them seem to cater specifically to the Filipino community. Moving forward, it would be nice to see some Fil-Am restaurants or dessert shops geared toward those day-one supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nostalgia aside, it’s clear that at least in the Bay Area, Asian Americans may be one of the last demographics that still loves going to the mall. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, they know how to do malls overseas in Asia, where the air-conditioned mega-complexes and adjoining grocers (and even \u003ca href=\"https://sg.news.yahoo.com/eat-pray-shop-philippines-embraces-mall-worshipping-203010484.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAB4A6PUvwqrEZsafK5zrckx99_8qlCUvh_kgR1GxXOKUk147gpiBiujysUm7v9waCCnOaZDTfYB3TEj-jwICJnETE9yxSPXVegjjiwes-P-mbcaIHJZDFgBpe9d9NXUBEuzKRwzeki7AKVIEOXCvIWy8HSmcEr4FM6tlrB9XBwS6\">churches\u003c/a>!) are designed to be a one-stop shop. So this Asian food renaissance seems to be the key to bringing people back to the mall, entire families in tow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other day I came across an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6UECwqRuaf/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA%3D%3D\">Instagram video about Serramonte Center\u003c/a> that ran down the Asian Dad fashion you can find there, harking back to the mall’s heyday as \u003cem>the\u003c/em> place to be for Filipinos like me. I was happy to be reminded that Serramonte will always have a place in Bay Area lore. May it be restored once again to its former glory — fountain be damned.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13921079/mom-tribute-dia-de-los-muertos-filipino-food-altar-frisco-foodies\">Rocky Rivera\u003c/a> is a journalist, emcee, author and activist from San Francisco. She has released four albums through her label, Beatrock Music, and a ten-volume mixtape series with DJ Roza — her most recent album,\u003c/em> Long Kiss Goodnight\u003cem>, dropped in Sept. 2024\u003c/em>.\u003cem> She released her first book, entitled \u003c/em>Snakeskin: Essays by Rocky Rivera, \u003cem>in 2021\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">F\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>rom the 1990s golden age of suburban sprawl, one Bay Area mall remains iconic among \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/filipino\">Filipino\u003c/a> Americans: Serramonte Center in Daly City, aka “Serra-Manila.” Throwback to ‘94, when Jocelyn Enriquez dominated 106.1 KMEL airwaves with her freestyle track “I’ve Been Thinking About You” — the first Pinay from my generation to make it on the radio — and Serramonte was the place to go back-to-school shopping, ask for someone’s pager number, or hard-launch a budding romance by simply holding hands in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a time before cell phones and GPS, if you got lost, you always met up at the fountain in the center of the mall, which was so powerful, it gushed up to the skylight like Old Faithful every half hour. During the busy holiday season, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@danes_panes/video/7472969415697403182?_r=1&_t=ZP-8wuJkYr1Lqh\">it provided a resting place for tired shoppers and grandparents\u003c/a> looking to entertain the kids with a shiny nickel and a wish or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nostalgia couldn’t save Serramonte Center. The reality is that malls all over America have been dying for the past 25 years — pummeled by the Great Recession of 2008, mortally wounded by the rise of e-commerce via Amazon. For many of the Bay Area’s struggling malls, the pandemic was their swan song. At Serramonte, when the big box stores like Macy’s and Montgomery Ward started falling like dominoes, it was only a matter of time before the Spencer’s Gifts and Contempo Casuals followed suit. So, for years now, instead of packs of teens roaming the corridors, the mall has sat mostly empty. Its once-popular restaurants, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/food/history/article/This-Bay-Area-pizza-chain-rose-to-fame-in-the-16378714.php\">Pizza and Pipes\u003c/a> and Elephant Bar or the nearby Peppermill, fell by the wayside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In 2017, the owners even hired consultants to redesign the mall based on feng shui principles, replacing the fountain with Zen-like koi ponds and live turtles on lily pads. None of it made much of a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976955\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13976955\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt='Entrance to a fancy new Korean grocery store. The sign reads, \"Jagalchi.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jagalchi’s arrival marks the beginning of a new — and much more Asian — chapter for Serramonte Center. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, Serramonte Center is hoping to pivot in the same direction as the small handful of Bay Area malls that \u003ci>are\u003c/i> still thriving: It’s going all in on Asian food. Earlier this spring the mall welcomed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jagalchi_official/?hl=en\">Jagalchi\u003c/a>, a glitzy Korean supermarket named after a famous fish market in Busan, sparking long lines in the spot where JCPenney once stood. And for the first time in a long time, it looked like there was hope for Serramonte to plot a comeback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malls all over the Bay Area – and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/asian-malls-us-are-thriving-post-pandemic-bucking-retail-trend-rcna96276\">down in Southern California too\u003c/a> — have followed this same playbook. Stonestown Galleria on the west side of SF was the first place where I noticed it. While the retail apocalypse decimated other malls in the greater San Francisco region, from San Bruno’s ghost town Tanforan Mall to the COVID-crippled San Francisco Centre on Market Street, Stonestown has seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/sf-stonestown-asian-americans-18507747.php\">a resurgence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13976966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Shopping carts bunched up at the entrance to a grocery store.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-49-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shopping carts at the entrance to Jagalchi. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>How did it do it? For starters, when the once-beloved Olive Garden and Chevys moved out, Stonestown didn’t replace them with other similarly generic chain restaurants. Instead, it began to welcome unique Asian specialty shops that served Japanese soufflé pancakes, fresh-made udon and Taiwanese fruit teas. It even added a revolving sushi bar, complete with robot servers, to warp you to Tokyo without the need for a passport. Not only did these new restaurants provide a draw, but the long lines and limited hours at places like Matcha Cafe Maiko gave an air of exclusivity that captured shoppers’ attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Asian Americans composing a third of San Francisco’s population, and thanks to Stonestown’s prime location between the Sunset District and SF State, the pivot worked. And we’ve seen other malls follow the same formula: These days, San Jose’s Westfield Valley Fair — probably the most successful mall in the Bay Area — consists almost entirely of restaurants and retail shops geared toward Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976960\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13976960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Shoppers inside an upscale Asian bakery.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-26-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customers shop in Jagalchi’s bakery section. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976964\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13976964\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Grocery store shelves full of different varieties of instant ramen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-43-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many different varieties of ramen. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I was growing up, Daly City was mainly populated by middle-class Filipino families, who I can proudly say are part of a foodie-obsessed culture. Our geographical proximity to other Asian countries means we can eat Korean BBQ, Singaporean noodles and Vietnamese pho, and wash it down with Thai iced tea — all in the course of a day. Our craving for food is international, and there is no line too long or reservation system too complicated for us to not eventually dominate. So I’m betting that Serramonte Center leaning into its Filipino customers’ insatiable appetite will be the thing that finally makes us get off our couches to pay this old-school, once-forgotten mall another visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, I was invited to Jagalchi’s press preview and got to peruse the aisles sans shoppers, noting what might attract folks from all parts of the Peninsula to its mall location. Though there is no H-Mart-style food court, the supermarket does have a Michelin-pedigreed restaurant onsite and a deli section that offers plenty of samples to try. Each area of the supermarket was spacious, with entire sections dedicated to specialty products that would be relegated to the one “ethnic” aisle at your local Safeway. It wasn’t like Pacific Super on Alemany (RIP), with its cramped aisles and pervasive fishy smell — that was actually my comfort zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976957\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13976957\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A shopper reaches for a package of Kewpie mayonnaise on the grocery store shelf.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-7-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author reaches for a package of Kewpie mayonnaise. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976963\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13976963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Packaged grilled eel lunchbox from an Asian grocery store.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1265\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED-800x506.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED-1020x645.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED-768x486.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED-1536x972.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-38-KQED-1920x1214.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grilled eel dupbap, one of the many prepared meals sold at Jagalchi’s deli section. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I stuffed my face with free kimbap and bulgogi samples like only an SF public school kid could. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>A couple weekends ago, I pulled up to Serramonte’s food court parking lot and slowly made my way toward the other side of the mall, where Jagalchi was. What I noticed were more and more Asian food businesses I hadn’t seen before. First, I grabbed a still-warm madeleine muffin from Uncle Tetsu, which specializes in Japanese cheesecakes. To its right, a sign advertised the Izumi revolving sushi bar, coming soon. And as I reached the once-famous fountain, I saw it had been replaced by a mochi donut stand, what was left of the fountain now reduced to a mere trickle. The mall is now also home to the Taiwanese bakery chain 85C, a Korean hot dog kiosk and a stand selling trendy Dubai chocolate strawberry cups. And in the mall’s southern wing, where Jagalchi is housed, I was greeted by a huge billboard for the much-heralded Koi Palace dim sum restaurant, which is moving its flagship from its Gellert Boulevard location to the mall next year, nearly doubling its seating capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, Serramonte’s Asian pivot is already well underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even on a regular weekend, Jagalchi was still bustling in comparison to the rest of Serramonte, and for now, foot traffic doesn’t seem to have increased much. Only time will tell if new businesses like the dim sum palace and the revolving sushi restaurant will draw customers to the rest of the mall, the way Stonestown’s specialty food court has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976959\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13976959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits in a mall foot court holding a madeleine cake.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/20250531_FRISCOFOODIESASIANFOOD_GC-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author tries a madeleine from Uncle Tetsu, a Japanese bakery specializing in cheesecake. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing I did miss was the makeshift Sari Sari store that once stood where the mochi donut spot is now — a quaint Filipino snack stand in the center of the mall. With all the new Asian businesses moving in, none of them seem to cater specifically to the Filipino community. Moving forward, it would be nice to see some Fil-Am restaurants or dessert shops geared toward those day-one supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nostalgia aside, it’s clear that at least in the Bay Area, Asian Americans may be one of the last demographics that still loves going to the mall. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, they know how to do malls overseas in Asia, where the air-conditioned mega-complexes and adjoining grocers (and even \u003ca href=\"https://sg.news.yahoo.com/eat-pray-shop-philippines-embraces-mall-worshipping-203010484.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAB4A6PUvwqrEZsafK5zrckx99_8qlCUvh_kgR1GxXOKUk147gpiBiujysUm7v9waCCnOaZDTfYB3TEj-jwICJnETE9yxSPXVegjjiwes-P-mbcaIHJZDFgBpe9d9NXUBEuzKRwzeki7AKVIEOXCvIWy8HSmcEr4FM6tlrB9XBwS6\">churches\u003c/a>!) are designed to be a one-stop shop. So this Asian food renaissance seems to be the key to bringing people back to the mall, entire families in tow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other day I came across an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6UECwqRuaf/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA%3D%3D\">Instagram video about Serramonte Center\u003c/a> that ran down the Asian Dad fashion you can find there, harking back to the mall’s heyday as \u003cem>the\u003c/em> place to be for Filipinos like me. I was happy to be reminded that Serramonte will always have a place in Bay Area lore. May it be restored once again to its former glory — fountain be damned.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Be sure to check out our full \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/summer-guide-2025\">2025 Summer Arts Guide to live music, movies, art, theater, festivals and more\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve ever wandered the back alleyways of a stinky tofu–fragrant Taipei night market, or done a laksa crawl at a Singaporean hawker center, or strolled from yakisoba stall to takoyaki stand amid a sea of yukata at a traditional Japanese summer festival — then you know the\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20171201052033/https://modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-power-of-night-market\"> power of a night market\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you also probably know: We’ve never really had a street food culture quite like that in the Bay Area, and\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/soleilho/article/san-francisco-night-market-food-bureaucracy-19654195.php\"> maybe we never will\u003c/a>. And yet, five years since the start of a pandemic that isolated communities and crippled downtown shopping districts, the night market has emerged as the single most popular antidote to those woes. Loosely modeled after the kinds of late-night, food-centric markets that are ubiquitous through much of Asia, night market events have launched as a way to bring communities together in cities and neighborhoods all across the Bay — from the chilly west end of San Francisco to the vast suburban parking lots of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, there are some weekends when a dedicated night market enthusiast can hit up two or three of these street food panaceas.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/the-midnight-diners\"> Miracle of miracles\u003c/a>, a few of them are even open as late as 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as we head into the heart of the summer, these night markets are some of the best places to taste a sampling of our region’s diverse, multicultural cuisines. Here are nine night markets we’re excited about:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>365 Night Market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>June 20–21, July 25–26, Aug. 29–30 and Sept. 26–27, 4–10 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>1111 Story Rd., San José (Grand Century Mall parking lot)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set in the heart of San José’s Little Saigon neighborhood, this market replaces the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13961537/san-jose-night-market-vietnamese-grand-century-mall\">heavily Vietnamese\u003c/a>-inflected one that previously held court in the Grand Century Mall parking lot. For its part, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/365nightmarket/?hl=en\">365 Night Market\u003c/a> takes a somewhat more pan-Asian approach but otherwise keeps the same format: Spread across a consecutive Friday and Saturday night each month, the event features 60-some-odd food stalls, live DJ sets, a sprinkling of cultural performances, and carnival games like Plinko and Connect Four. The June 20–21 food lineup includes vendors specializing in Chinese candied fruit skewers, northern-style beef phở, dessert crepes and pandan tiramisu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977829\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/OyC-Night-Lights.jpg\" alt=\"View of an outdoor beer garden with vintage lowrider cars on display.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/OyC-Night-Lights.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/OyC-Night-Lights-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/OyC-Night-Lights-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/OyC-Night-Lights-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Berryessa Night Market’s ‘Oldies y Cerveza’–themed events are a celebration of old soul vinyls and lowrider culture. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Berryessa Night Market)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Berryessa Night Market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Fridays, 5–9 p.m., from April through October\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>San José Flea Market, 1590 Berryessa Rd., San José\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Friday through October, the San José Flea Market (aka\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13905374/la-pulga-san-jose-flea-market-redevelopment-eulogy\"> La Pulga\u003c/a>) operates a weekly night market at its “Garden at the Flea” beer garden and events space, often with a specific theme. On June 20, for instance, the market will host its annual Kawaii Kpop Night — a celebration of anime, K-pop and J-pop, to go along with a diverse lineup of food vendors serving poke bowls, shaved ice and Mexican-style loaded baked potatoes. Meanwhile, June 27 will be “Oldies y Cerveza” night, a recurring event that celebrates rare soul vinyls, lowriders and cold beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Heart of the Richmond Night Market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>June 21, July 19, Aug. 16 and Sept. 20, 4–8 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Clement Street (between 22nd and 25th Avenues), San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond District has long been one of the best dining destinations in San Francisco, between its well-established (if informal) designation as the city’s “New Chinatown,” status as the historical center for the local Russian-speaking communities, and sprinkling of trendy higher-end restaurants. It’s fitting, then, that the neighborhood’s new night market reflects that vibrancy and diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://heartoftherichmonddistrictnightmarket.com/june-21st-participants/\">June 21 market\u003c/a> will have a special focus on kid-friendly activities like lawn games, Lego and temporary tattoos. Meanwhile the food options play to the neighborhood’s strengths: dim sum, Korean barbecue, ube hand pies, dragon beard candy, ice cream sandwiches and more. All that, plus free cartoons for kids at the 4 Star Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977831\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977831\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/chinatown-night-market-fruit_julie-ramsey.jpg\" alt=\"A street vendor sells colorful skewers of candied fruit.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/chinatown-night-market-fruit_julie-ramsey.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/chinatown-night-market-fruit_julie-ramsey-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/chinatown-night-market-fruit_julie-ramsey-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/chinatown-night-market-fruit_julie-ramsey-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street vendor sells tanghulu, or Chinese candied fruit, at the Chinatown Night Market. \u003ccite>(Julie Ramsey, courtesy of BeChinatow )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Chinatown Night Market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>July 11, Aug. 8, Sept. 12, Oct. 10 and Nov. 14, 5:30–9 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Grant Avenue (between Sacramento and Jackson), San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the tail of several challenging pandemic-era years, San Francisco’s Chinatown now has its own night market, held the second Friday of every month. Hosted by \u003ca href=\"https://bechinatown.weebly.com/\">BeChinatown\u003c/a> and a fleet of hundreds of volunteers, the Chinatown Night Market now regularly packs three full blocks of Grant Avenue with a crowd that includes a large proportion of young people — a priority for Chinatown legacy businesses hoping to connect with the new generation, says BeChinatown president Lily Lo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People just feel the energy,” says Jonathan Sit, president of the volunteer coalition. “There’s lanterns. There’s karaoke in the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foodwise, the market’s main distinguishing feature is that it’s focused almost entirely on local vendors within Chinatown (“\u003ci>no\u003c/i> food trucks,” Lo stresses), many of which offer special items that they only sell during the night market — fried cheese at the Wong Lee bakery, for instance, or tea eggs at one of the sushi shops. Another difference? The prices are set lower than other street food events, with most vendors offering $5 menu items. Fan favorites include tanghulu (candied fruit), coconut pudding served inside the shell, and Xinjiang-style meat skewers — one of the few items that are grilled fresh on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977836\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977836\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/valencia-live_ugur-dursun.jpg\" alt=\"Crowded street party at night.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/valencia-live_ugur-dursun.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/valencia-live_ugur-dursun-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/valencia-live_ugur-dursun-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/valencia-live_ugur-dursun-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Valencia Live! night market takes place every second Thursday of the month. \u003ccite>(Ugur Dursun/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Valencia Live!\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>July 10, Aug. 14, Sept. 11, Oct. 9, 5–10 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Valencia Street (between 16th and 19th), San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of San Francisco’s newest night markets takes place on every second Thursday of the month, with a focus on highlighting local vendors in the Mission. Instead of bringing in outside food trucks or other street vendors, the event is more like a street party that promotes Valencia Street’s existing brick-and-mortar restaurants, many of which set up pop-ups with outdoor dining outside their space. Notably, Valencia Live! is one of three new “entertainment zones” in the city that allow, among other things, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/valencia-street-night-market-20246721.php\">the sale of to-go cocktails\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963298\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963298\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria.jpg\" alt=\"Asian man in black backwards baseball cap tosses fried rice in a hot wok at an outdoor market.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woo Can Cook’s wok-fried rice is one of the Prescott Night Market’s street food options. \u003ccite>(Don Feria)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Prescott Night Market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>July 24, Aug. 21, Sept. 4 and Oct. 9, 5–9 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>1620 18th St., Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Oakland’s popular monthly\u003ca href=\"https://www.westoaklandfarmersmarket.org/nightmarket\"> Thursday night market\u003c/a> packs plenty of Town energy into each four-hour market, starting with a multicultural lineup of food vendors that might, in a given month, sell Cambodian meat skewers, Nigerian jollof, Cubano sandwiches, Taiwanese night market–inspired fried rice, whole roast pig and more. (The exact lineup for this year’s first market in July is still in the works.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prescott Night Market is located in an increasingly lively stretch of West Oakland, on the same block where an\u003ca href=\"https://www.westoaklandfarmersmarket.org/markethall\"> affiliated food hall\u003c/a> opened earlier this spring and just across the street from the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13960687/oakland-ballers-baseball-summertime-fans\"> Oakland Ballers’ ballpark\u003c/a>, which has created a fortuitous bit of synergy when market nights have coincided with Ballers’ home games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963302\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963302\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6.jpg\" alt=\"A woman grilling meat skewers over a charcoal grill.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian barbecue courtesy of Hayward’s Wah Jee Wah. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bhangra and Beats)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Bhangra and Beats Night Market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>July 25 and Oct. 24, 5–10 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Battery Street at Clay Street, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of downtown San Francisco’s most unique night markets is essentially a massive, rollicking Friday night block party that shines a particular spotlight on South Asian culture — feet-pounding\u003ca href=\"https://nonstopbhangra.com/\"> bhangra folk music and dancing\u003c/a> and, of course, a wide spectrum of street food offerings, including charcoal-grilled meat skewers from Indian barbecue sensation\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wahjeewah/?hl=en\"> Wah Jee Wah\u003c/a>, Nepalese momos from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/biniskitchen/\">Bini’s Kitchen\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13960580/jollof-festival-oakland-west-african-food-competition-nigerian-sierra-leone\">championship-pedigreed Nigerian jollof rice\u003c/a> from Jollof Kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each edition of\u003ca href=\"https://www.bhangraandbeats.com/\"> Bhangra and Beats\u003c/a> has its own theme. The July night market, for instance, is being billed as a “Summer Block Party.” Meanwhile, October’s market has been designated as the city of San Francisco’s official Diwali celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Millbrae Gateway Night Market\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Aug. 1, Sept. 5, Oct. 3, Nov. 7, Dec. 5, 4–10 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>200 Rollins Rd., Millbrae\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quiet suburb of Millbrae has long been one of the Bay Area’s top destinations for Asian cuisines, so it’s no surprise that the city now has its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/millbrae-gateway-night-market-tickets-1269974902119\">Asian-style night market\u003c/a>, hosted at the Gateway at Millbrae Station mixed-use complex. The first few markets have featured live music, free yoga classes, axe throwing and, of course, a robust selection of (mostly Asian) street food vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963303\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963303\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd waits in line at the Liang's Village food stand.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Liang’s Village Taiwanese food stand at a previous edition of the Cupertino Night Market. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cupertino Chamber of Commerce)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Cupertino Night Market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Aug. 16, 3–10 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>De Anza College, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-cupertino-night-market-tickets-1333444200499\">Cupertino’s annual night market\u003c/a> typically features about 20 food vendors. This year’s lineup is still being set, but past participants have included South Bay stalwarts like longtime Taiwanese favorite\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/liangsvillage/\"> Liang’s Village\u003c/a> and Mexican pizza truck\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tlaxiacos/\"> Tlaxiaco’s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fittingly for a Cupertino event, previous editions of the night market have often featured a heavy tech angle, with VR gaming trucks, Tesla test drives and the like — though we’re told organizers are still looking for an electric car sponsor for this year.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Be sure to check out our full \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/summer-guide-2025\">2025 Summer Arts Guide to live music, movies, art, theater, festivals and more\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve ever wandered the back alleyways of a stinky tofu–fragrant Taipei night market, or done a laksa crawl at a Singaporean hawker center, or strolled from yakisoba stall to takoyaki stand amid a sea of yukata at a traditional Japanese summer festival — then you know the\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20171201052033/https://modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-power-of-night-market\"> power of a night market\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you also probably know: We’ve never really had a street food culture quite like that in the Bay Area, and\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/soleilho/article/san-francisco-night-market-food-bureaucracy-19654195.php\"> maybe we never will\u003c/a>. And yet, five years since the start of a pandemic that isolated communities and crippled downtown shopping districts, the night market has emerged as the single most popular antidote to those woes. Loosely modeled after the kinds of late-night, food-centric markets that are ubiquitous through much of Asia, night market events have launched as a way to bring communities together in cities and neighborhoods all across the Bay — from the chilly west end of San Francisco to the vast suburban parking lots of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, there are some weekends when a dedicated night market enthusiast can hit up two or three of these street food panaceas.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/the-midnight-diners\"> Miracle of miracles\u003c/a>, a few of them are even open as late as 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as we head into the heart of the summer, these night markets are some of the best places to taste a sampling of our region’s diverse, multicultural cuisines. Here are nine night markets we’re excited about:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>365 Night Market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>June 20–21, July 25–26, Aug. 29–30 and Sept. 26–27, 4–10 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>1111 Story Rd., San José (Grand Century Mall parking lot)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set in the heart of San José’s Little Saigon neighborhood, this market replaces the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13961537/san-jose-night-market-vietnamese-grand-century-mall\">heavily Vietnamese\u003c/a>-inflected one that previously held court in the Grand Century Mall parking lot. For its part, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/365nightmarket/?hl=en\">365 Night Market\u003c/a> takes a somewhat more pan-Asian approach but otherwise keeps the same format: Spread across a consecutive Friday and Saturday night each month, the event features 60-some-odd food stalls, live DJ sets, a sprinkling of cultural performances, and carnival games like Plinko and Connect Four. The June 20–21 food lineup includes vendors specializing in Chinese candied fruit skewers, northern-style beef phở, dessert crepes and pandan tiramisu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977829\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/OyC-Night-Lights.jpg\" alt=\"View of an outdoor beer garden with vintage lowrider cars on display.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/OyC-Night-Lights.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/OyC-Night-Lights-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/OyC-Night-Lights-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/OyC-Night-Lights-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Berryessa Night Market’s ‘Oldies y Cerveza’–themed events are a celebration of old soul vinyls and lowrider culture. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Berryessa Night Market)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Berryessa Night Market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Fridays, 5–9 p.m., from April through October\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>San José Flea Market, 1590 Berryessa Rd., San José\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Friday through October, the San José Flea Market (aka\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13905374/la-pulga-san-jose-flea-market-redevelopment-eulogy\"> La Pulga\u003c/a>) operates a weekly night market at its “Garden at the Flea” beer garden and events space, often with a specific theme. On June 20, for instance, the market will host its annual Kawaii Kpop Night — a celebration of anime, K-pop and J-pop, to go along with a diverse lineup of food vendors serving poke bowls, shaved ice and Mexican-style loaded baked potatoes. Meanwhile, June 27 will be “Oldies y Cerveza” night, a recurring event that celebrates rare soul vinyls, lowriders and cold beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Heart of the Richmond Night Market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>June 21, July 19, Aug. 16 and Sept. 20, 4–8 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Clement Street (between 22nd and 25th Avenues), San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond District has long been one of the best dining destinations in San Francisco, between its well-established (if informal) designation as the city’s “New Chinatown,” status as the historical center for the local Russian-speaking communities, and sprinkling of trendy higher-end restaurants. It’s fitting, then, that the neighborhood’s new night market reflects that vibrancy and diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://heartoftherichmonddistrictnightmarket.com/june-21st-participants/\">June 21 market\u003c/a> will have a special focus on kid-friendly activities like lawn games, Lego and temporary tattoos. Meanwhile the food options play to the neighborhood’s strengths: dim sum, Korean barbecue, ube hand pies, dragon beard candy, ice cream sandwiches and more. All that, plus free cartoons for kids at the 4 Star Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977831\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977831\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/chinatown-night-market-fruit_julie-ramsey.jpg\" alt=\"A street vendor sells colorful skewers of candied fruit.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/chinatown-night-market-fruit_julie-ramsey.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/chinatown-night-market-fruit_julie-ramsey-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/chinatown-night-market-fruit_julie-ramsey-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/chinatown-night-market-fruit_julie-ramsey-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street vendor sells tanghulu, or Chinese candied fruit, at the Chinatown Night Market. \u003ccite>(Julie Ramsey, courtesy of BeChinatow )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Chinatown Night Market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>July 11, Aug. 8, Sept. 12, Oct. 10 and Nov. 14, 5:30–9 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Grant Avenue (between Sacramento and Jackson), San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the tail of several challenging pandemic-era years, San Francisco’s Chinatown now has its own night market, held the second Friday of every month. Hosted by \u003ca href=\"https://bechinatown.weebly.com/\">BeChinatown\u003c/a> and a fleet of hundreds of volunteers, the Chinatown Night Market now regularly packs three full blocks of Grant Avenue with a crowd that includes a large proportion of young people — a priority for Chinatown legacy businesses hoping to connect with the new generation, says BeChinatown president Lily Lo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People just feel the energy,” says Jonathan Sit, president of the volunteer coalition. “There’s lanterns. There’s karaoke in the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foodwise, the market’s main distinguishing feature is that it’s focused almost entirely on local vendors within Chinatown (“\u003ci>no\u003c/i> food trucks,” Lo stresses), many of which offer special items that they only sell during the night market — fried cheese at the Wong Lee bakery, for instance, or tea eggs at one of the sushi shops. Another difference? The prices are set lower than other street food events, with most vendors offering $5 menu items. Fan favorites include tanghulu (candied fruit), coconut pudding served inside the shell, and Xinjiang-style meat skewers — one of the few items that are grilled fresh on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977836\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977836\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/valencia-live_ugur-dursun.jpg\" alt=\"Crowded street party at night.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/valencia-live_ugur-dursun.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/valencia-live_ugur-dursun-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/valencia-live_ugur-dursun-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/valencia-live_ugur-dursun-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Valencia Live! night market takes place every second Thursday of the month. \u003ccite>(Ugur Dursun/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Valencia Live!\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>July 10, Aug. 14, Sept. 11, Oct. 9, 5–10 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Valencia Street (between 16th and 19th), San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of San Francisco’s newest night markets takes place on every second Thursday of the month, with a focus on highlighting local vendors in the Mission. Instead of bringing in outside food trucks or other street vendors, the event is more like a street party that promotes Valencia Street’s existing brick-and-mortar restaurants, many of which set up pop-ups with outdoor dining outside their space. Notably, Valencia Live! is one of three new “entertainment zones” in the city that allow, among other things, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/valencia-street-night-market-20246721.php\">the sale of to-go cocktails\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963298\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963298\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria.jpg\" alt=\"Asian man in black backwards baseball cap tosses fried rice in a hot wok at an outdoor market.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/prescott-1_don-feria-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woo Can Cook’s wok-fried rice is one of the Prescott Night Market’s street food options. \u003ccite>(Don Feria)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Prescott Night Market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>July 24, Aug. 21, Sept. 4 and Oct. 9, 5–9 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>1620 18th St., Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Oakland’s popular monthly\u003ca href=\"https://www.westoaklandfarmersmarket.org/nightmarket\"> Thursday night market\u003c/a> packs plenty of Town energy into each four-hour market, starting with a multicultural lineup of food vendors that might, in a given month, sell Cambodian meat skewers, Nigerian jollof, Cubano sandwiches, Taiwanese night market–inspired fried rice, whole roast pig and more. (The exact lineup for this year’s first market in July is still in the works.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prescott Night Market is located in an increasingly lively stretch of West Oakland, on the same block where an\u003ca href=\"https://www.westoaklandfarmersmarket.org/markethall\"> affiliated food hall\u003c/a> opened earlier this spring and just across the street from the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13960687/oakland-ballers-baseball-summertime-fans\"> Oakland Ballers’ ballpark\u003c/a>, which has created a fortuitous bit of synergy when market nights have coincided with Ballers’ home games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963302\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963302\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6.jpg\" alt=\"A woman grilling meat skewers over a charcoal grill.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/BHANGRA_BEATS_7.12.24_SM-6-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian barbecue courtesy of Hayward’s Wah Jee Wah. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bhangra and Beats)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Bhangra and Beats Night Market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>July 25 and Oct. 24, 5–10 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Battery Street at Clay Street, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of downtown San Francisco’s most unique night markets is essentially a massive, rollicking Friday night block party that shines a particular spotlight on South Asian culture — feet-pounding\u003ca href=\"https://nonstopbhangra.com/\"> bhangra folk music and dancing\u003c/a> and, of course, a wide spectrum of street food offerings, including charcoal-grilled meat skewers from Indian barbecue sensation\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wahjeewah/?hl=en\"> Wah Jee Wah\u003c/a>, Nepalese momos from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/biniskitchen/\">Bini’s Kitchen\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13960580/jollof-festival-oakland-west-african-food-competition-nigerian-sierra-leone\">championship-pedigreed Nigerian jollof rice\u003c/a> from Jollof Kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each edition of\u003ca href=\"https://www.bhangraandbeats.com/\"> Bhangra and Beats\u003c/a> has its own theme. The July night market, for instance, is being billed as a “Summer Block Party.” Meanwhile, October’s market has been designated as the city of San Francisco’s official Diwali celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Millbrae Gateway Night Market\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Aug. 1, Sept. 5, Oct. 3, Nov. 7, Dec. 5, 4–10 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>200 Rollins Rd., Millbrae\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quiet suburb of Millbrae has long been one of the Bay Area’s top destinations for Asian cuisines, so it’s no surprise that the city now has its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/millbrae-gateway-night-market-tickets-1269974902119\">Asian-style night market\u003c/a>, hosted at the Gateway at Millbrae Station mixed-use complex. The first few markets have featured live music, free yoga classes, axe throwing and, of course, a robust selection of (mostly Asian) street food vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963303\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963303\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd waits in line at the Liang's Village food stand.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cupertino-night-market-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Liang’s Village Taiwanese food stand at a previous edition of the Cupertino Night Market. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cupertino Chamber of Commerce)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Cupertino Night Market\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Aug. 16, 3–10 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>De Anza College, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-cupertino-night-market-tickets-1333444200499\">Cupertino’s annual night market\u003c/a> typically features about 20 food vendors. This year’s lineup is still being set, but past participants have included South Bay stalwarts like longtime Taiwanese favorite\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/liangsvillage/\"> Liang’s Village\u003c/a> and Mexican pizza truck\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tlaxiacos/\"> Tlaxiaco’s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last summer, \u003ci>The New York Times\u003c/i> wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/technology/san-francisco-local-news-resurgence.html\">a surprised piece\u003c/a> about the glut of San Francisco news organizations — 27 outlets for a population of 800,000 — at a time when local news is a struggling (some would say dying) business. But among the outlets profiled and lauded for their alternative models, including Gazetteer, the SF Standard and Mission Local, not a single one was a worker-owned cooperative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In retrospect, this is odd, given the Bay Area’s history of collectively owned \u003ca href=\"https://arizmendibakery.com/\">bakeries\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.boxdogbikes.com/\">bike shops\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.adobebooks.com/\">bookstores\u003c/a>. We once even had a worker-owned strip club (RIP \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/109654/the-lusty-ladys-last-dance\">Lusty Lady\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter \u003ca href=\"https://givebutter.com/coyotemedia\">Coyote Media Collective\u003c/a>, an upstart news organization in the spirit of the city’s bygone alt weeklies, founded by a team of talented Bay Area journalists intent on “informing the public, \u003ci>and\u003c/i> having fun at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 11 founding members — an all-star line-up — will be familiar names to many Bay Area news consumers: Amir Aziz, Nuala Bishari, Alan Chazaro, Reo Eveleth, Estefany Gonzalez, Rahawa Haile, Soleil Ho, Daniel Lavery, Cecilia Lei, Emma Silvers and Supriya Yelimeli. Together, the group has worked for nearly every Bay Area news publication, past and present, including this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1201px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977821\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/FUV7hoX1If7wOumgmhzvcov9BVrj1SxElNEXNPwv.png\" alt=\"cartoon coyote drawing and name on lime green background\" width=\"1201\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/FUV7hoX1If7wOumgmhzvcov9BVrj1SxElNEXNPwv.png 1201w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/FUV7hoX1If7wOumgmhzvcov9BVrj1SxElNEXNPwv-160x84.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/FUV7hoX1If7wOumgmhzvcov9BVrj1SxElNEXNPwv-768x404.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1201px) 100vw, 1201px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Coyote logo, designed by Ace Ty, channels the snarky, chatty energy of bygone alt weeklies. \u003ccite>(Coyote Media Collective)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their origin story is one of both dissatisfaction and idealism. “I think that almost every disgruntled journalist at one point or another says, ‘Maybe we should launch our own thing,’” says Bishari, who left her position as an opinion columnist at the \u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i> in April to focus on launching Coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like a pipe dream,” she says. “Everybody talks about it, but who actually does it? But once you have Soleil working on something, they are just so dogged in moving things forward.” Over the next few months, they assembled what Bishari describes as a “dream team,” pulling together editors; photographers; audio and video journalists; and an experienced slate of arts and culture, politics, health and homelessness reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collective announced their plans publicly on June 16; two days later they had already raised over 75% of their \u003ca href=\"https://givebutter.com/coyotemedia\">$80,000 launch goal\u003c/a>. Each founding member will have equal ownership and, eventually, equal pay. Content on the site will be free, but membership tiers will allow increased access to the journalists’ work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bishari says the public enthusiasm has been validating. “Seeing the response from the community and people who are donating money towards this has just been incredible,” she says. “It’s really affirming that this is exactly the type of model and product that people are really desperate for in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13870628']Nationally, the worker-owned newsroom model is encouraging. Bishari points to sites like \u003ca href=\"https://defector.com/\">Defector\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://hellgatenyc.com/\">Hell Gate\u003c/a> and the intersectional feminist news site \u003ca href=\"https://theflytrap.beehiiv.com/\">The Flytrap\u003c/a>. These new publications have emerged at a moment when public media is threatened by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044021/house-votes-to-claw-back-1-1-billion-from-public-media\">government funding clawbacks\u003c/a>, nonprofit newsrooms are struggling to tap donors, single-funder operations are subject to the whims of their benefactors, and corporate leadership replaces journalists with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5405022/fake-summer-reading-list-ai\">AI-generated nonsense\u003c/a>. A lean, member-supported operation starts to look downright stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coyote plans to go live later this summer, featuring the kind of longform narratives we once saw in alt weekly cover stories. Harking back to the golden age of Craigslist’s Missed Connections, the site will also include a “Meet Cute Market” for those tired of endless swipes on dating apps. The publication will prioritize investigative reporting, arts and culture coverage well beyond the largest Bay Area orgs, and “pointed” opinion columns. Coyote’s tagline is “independent journalism with a BITE!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About that name: it’s a homage to the trickster of Native American culture, but also a nod to Margo St. James’ COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), a sex-worker’s rights organization that threw the annual Hooker’s Ball in San Francisco and published the newspaper \u003ci>COYOTE HOWLS\u003c/i>. The new collective’s logo, designed by \u003ca href=\"https://eisellety.com/\">Ace Ty\u003c/a>, has some of the lascivious energy of \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=8a70c10f7ae50c33&rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS1165US1165&q=tex+avery+wolf&udm=2&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIeiAkWG4OlBE2zyCTMjPbGmMNVzzdxBOnCKmP4GlQhWOKEpCNqronls6VY9OEW1LNhIs2E2kXXkNyugaGcXrVBLuhy3O9Idg3OS_2jWUYYEx2G5S9UPGcabKdVQvh7GSXkm1t1KEZOjpFoUo0Uv0Lu82ue_xEjUCbp5M9qU11pySRjhkR2A&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiokOXt5fuNAxUxETQIHdOnBKUQtKgLegQIExAB&biw=1340&bih=807&dpr=2\">Tex Avery’s wolf\u003c/a>, with plenty of side-eye to boot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As their pipe dream becomes a reality, Bishari and the Coyote team are excited to pursue the stories that may not have made it past the pitch stage or their former editors’ desks. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Editor’s note:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem> This story is part of ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/transhistory\">Trans Bay: A History of San Francisco’s Gender-Diverse Community\u003c/a>.’ From June 9–19, we’re publishing stories about transgender artists and activists who shaped culture from the 1890s to today.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Content warning:\u003c/strong> This piece contains descriptions of colonial violence that may be distressing for readers.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaits.org/2024-powwow/powwow-info\">Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirit Powwow\u003c/a> draws thousands of people to San Francisco, from the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Idaho to the Standing Rock Band of North Dakota. Adorned in colorful jingle dresses, ornate beadwork and other regalia, attendees come together to connect with each other and their heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baaits.org/\">Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits\u003c/a> (BAAITS) is a Mission District group that puts on the gathering. Since the first edition in 2012, the Two-Spirit Powwow has exploded into the largest Indigiqueer event in the U.S., one that allows Indigenous folks the space to reclaim and redefine what it means to be Two-Spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The term “Two-Spirit” emerged in the ’90s as a way for queer Indigenous people to express their gender identities, beyond the Western binary of man or woman. Before colonization, different Native cultures throughout the Americas \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13845330/5-two-spirit-heroes-who-paved-the-way-for-todays-native-lgbtq-community\">recognized third-gender and gender-variant people\u003c/a> whose social and ceremonial roles varied from tribe to tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, there is no one singular definition of what it means to identify as Two-Spirit. “When you say Two-Spirit, you know the person’s Indigenous, and you know they have some kind of spiritual practice,” says J Miko Thomas, a.k.a. Landa Lakes, who created the Two-Spirit Powwow with Ruth Villaseñor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977756\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1168px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977756\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/IMG_6371-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1168\" height=\"868\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/IMG_6371-1.jpeg 1168w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/IMG_6371-1-160x119.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/IMG_6371-1-768x571.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1168px) 100vw, 1168px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Villaseñor (center) and J Miko Thomas (right) co-founded the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirit Powwow in 2012. They’re pictured at the 2023 edition with Two-Spirit Powwow coordinator Derek Smith (left). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of J Miko Thomas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“How we think about gender is really in the middle,” explains Roger Kuhn, a Two-Spirit Poarch Creek psychotherapist who attends the powwow every year. Rather than a binary, or even a gender spectrum with “male” on one end and “female” on the other, “the difference would be if you took that straight line and bent it until those opposing forces were together, a circle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can go up, down, left, right, diagonal, around the circumference,” Kuhn adds, “as opposed to residing on just this binary of man, woman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, Indigenous notions of gender were nearly lost to history as European colonizers wiped out language and culture related to third-gender and gender-variant people. In California, what little documented history remains was inaccurately written by Spanish missionaries. Now, thanks to BAAITS and other like-minded organizations, today’s Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer people are working to decolonize gender and reclaim their ancestors’ legacies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we don’t have that many elders in the Two-Spirit world,” says Kuhn, “suddenly I felt like I was carrying on this legacy of those that came before me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977704\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_2019-81_03_05_013_DSC_01417614_2013.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_2019-81_03_05_013_DSC_01417614_2013.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_2019-81_03_05_013_DSC_01417614_2013-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_2019-81_03_05_013_DSC_01417614_2013-768x509.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_2019-81_03_05_013_DSC_01417614_2013-1536x1018.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers at the Two-Spirit Powwow in Oakland in 2013. Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits records. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A colonial history of violence and forced assimilation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Little would be known about gender diversity in California if it weren’t for Deborah Miranda, a member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation and a professor at Washington and Lee University. For her 2010 paper “\u003ca href=\"https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article-abstract/16/1-2/253/34704/EXTERMINATION-OF-THE-JOYASGendercide-in-Spanish?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">Extermination of the Joyas\u003c/a>,” originally published in \u003cem>GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies\u003c/em>, Miranda read and translated archival sources from Spanish missions, including correspondence, newspapers, baptismal and death records and testimonies of missionized Indigenous people.[aside postid='arts_13845330']What Miranda discovered after translating the written records of the Spanish was horrific. Third-gender people, she wrote, weren’t just victims of what she described as “passive” tactics of genocide like starvation and disease, but victims of calculated, intentional means of extermination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Spanish also forced those with gender variance to assimilate by wearing foreign clothing and taking on new names, stripping them of their status and identity in their community. All the while, the Spanish soldiers and priests continuously referred to those with gender variance as “joyas.” (Spanish for “jewels.”)[aside postid='news_11933852']“It seems doubtful that the Spaniards would retain a beautiful name like ‘jewel’ to describe what they saw as the lowest, most bestial segment of the Indian community,” Miranda wrote, “unless it was meant as a kind of sarcasm to enact a sense of power and superiority over the third-gendered people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joyas” was likely not meant to be understood as a complimentary term, but Miranda highlighted that it did genuinely reflect the way pre-contact Indigenous Californians regarded their gender-variant community members. Despite attempts to fully eradicate them and their culture, Miranda wrote, neither the spirit nor spiritual needs of the Indigenous community could be extinguished. Gender-variant Indigenous Californians, she argued, have re-emerged from the attempted gendercide through contemporary Two-Spirit identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977705\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977705\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_2019-81_03_05_003_DSC_036110886_2014.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_2019-81_03_05_003_DSC_036110886_2014.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_2019-81_03_05_003_DSC_036110886_2014-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_2019-81_03_05_003_DSC_036110886_2014-768x509.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_2019-81_03_05_003_DSC_036110886_2014-1536x1018.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at the Two-Spirit Powwow in San Francisco in 2014. Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits records. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Two-Spirit identity today\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Because there isn’t a rigid definition or set way to be Two-Spirit, today’s Two-Spirit people are working both as a community and as individuals to define the identity for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is Two-Spirit a sacred role? Is Two-Spirit a traditional role?” asks Kuhn, the psychotherapist. “No one has a concrete definition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This name, Two-Spirit,” wrote Miranda, “allows the reunion of spiritual and sexual roles into a whole and undivided gender role, a role still needed in human society.” For her, the name Two-Spirit is also a way to recognize one another and remind each other of the cultural and historical responsibility Two-Spirit people bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are still learning what this means,” she wrote. “There has been no one to teach us but ourselves, our research, our stories, and our hearts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the word “Two-Spirit” itself is fairly young, only formally emerging for the first time 35 years ago at an intertribal conference in Winnipeg, Canada. 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Gender-variant Indigenous Californians, she argued, have re-emerged from the attempted gendercide through contemporary Two-Spirit identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977705\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977705\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_2019-81_03_05_003_DSC_036110886_2014.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_2019-81_03_05_003_DSC_036110886_2014.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_2019-81_03_05_003_DSC_036110886_2014-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_2019-81_03_05_003_DSC_036110886_2014-768x509.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/glbths_2019-81_03_05_003_DSC_036110886_2014-1536x1018.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at the Two-Spirit Powwow in San Francisco in 2014. Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits records. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Two-Spirit identity today\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Because there isn’t a rigid definition or set way to be Two-Spirit, today’s Two-Spirit people are working both as a community and as individuals to define the identity for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is Two-Spirit a sacred role? 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Both Thomas and Kuhn say its history stems from the desire to find an alternative word to “berdache,” an ill-fitting term cultural anthropologists tended to use in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas says choosing an English word instead of an Indigenous one was also intentional. “It was coined to be an English word so that it didn’t feel like it was taking too much from a specific culture,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977707\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GLBTHS_2019-81_03_04_003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GLBTHS_2019-81_03_04_003.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GLBTHS_2019-81_03_04_003-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GLBTHS_2019-81_03_04_003-768x518.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/GLBTHS_2019-81_03_04_003-1536x1037.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) contingent in the 2008 San Francisco Pride Parade. 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