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"content": "\u003cp>Naoko Takei Moore has beautiful memories of her mother’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/japanese-food\">Japanese\u003c/a> home cooking. Growing up in Tokyo in the ’80s, she savored those moments when she and her mom stood side by side in the kitchen making fresh onigiri and mochi, and, most of all, when they’d sit around the family table to enjoy a meal of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C4ZHSAtvjUG/?hl=en&img_index=1\">yose-nabe\u003c/a>, a kind of hot pot made with simple ingredients like clams, fish and whatever vegetables they had on hand — all cooked in the traditional Japanese clay pot known as donabe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best part, she says, was when they’d lift the lid of the pot to reveal the finished dish, and all of the steam wafted up. “It’s so special,” she says. “It never gets old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the introduction to her new cookbook, \u003ca href=\"https://toirokitchen.com/products/simply-donabe-cookbook\">\u003ci>Simply Donabe\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, Takei Moore recalls how years later, after she’d immigrated to Los Angeles, she found herself wanting to share traditional donabe with her new community in the United States. In 2008, she founded \u003ca href=\"https://toirokitchen.com/\">TOIRO\u003c/a>, a company that sold handmade donabe imported from Iga, Japan, and started hosting donabe-centric Japanese cooking classes in her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before she knew it, she’d become donabe culture’s number one evangelist in the Western world, co-authoring her first award-winning cookbook on the topic (\u003ci>Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking) \u003c/i>in 2015, and expanding her business to include a brick-and-mortar donabe shop in West Hollywood. She’s also become a minor celebrity on Instagram, where she goes by “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mrsdonabe/\">Mrs. Donabe\u003c/a>” and has more than 47,000 followers who marvel over her \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DERIT5-PuMw/?hl=en&img_index=1\">gorgeously presented\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DNjUQbRSZMj/?hl=en&img_index=1\">one-pot\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DRFm3pbkjW0/?hl=en&img_index=1\">dishes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987068\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1334px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987068\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Naoko-1-c-Matt-Russell.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian woman stirs a pot of soup.\" width=\"1334\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Naoko-1-c-Matt-Russell.jpg 1334w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Naoko-1-c-Matt-Russell-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Naoko-1-c-Matt-Russell-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Naoko-1-c-Matt-Russell-1025x1536.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1334px) 100vw, 1334px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Takei Moore stirs a pot of soup cooked in a traditional donabe. \u003ccite>(Matt Russell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days, she says, donabe cooking has become mainstream in ways she never could have imagined when she first started teaching her little grassroots cooking classes, when most of her students couldn’t even pronounce the word. (It’s “doh-nah-bay,” not “doh-nah-bee.”) Now, magazines like \u003ci>Food & Wine \u003c/i>and \u003ci>Bon Appétit\u003c/i> will reference “donabe” in recipes without feeling the need to translate the word as “Japanese clay pot,” and TOIRO routinely gets orders from customers across the U.S. and in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Takei Moore says the gospel she’s spreading isn’t really about any particular recipe or cooking technique. Instead, she believes using donabe in day-to-day cooking is a pathway toward a slower, more intentional and more idyllic life — what she calls her “happy donabe life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the eve of a book tour visit to San Francisco that will include \u003ca href=\"https://omnivorebooks.myshopify.com/products/naoko-takei-moore-author-event-simply-donabe-japanese-one-pot-recipes\">a talk at Omnivore Books on Food\u003c/a> and a special dinner at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DUwLLUBEk3M/?img_index=1\">Rintaro\u003c/a>, I spoke to Takei Moore about the connective power of food and the life-changing, near-magical qualities of her beloved donabe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Luke Tsai: Can you briefly explain what a donabe \u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ci>is\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb> for those who don’t know?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Naoko Takei Moore:\u003c/b> It literally means clay pot — “do” means clay, and “nabe” means pot. It’s the foundation of Japanese cuisine, going back more than 10,000 years during the Jōmon Period. So it’s almost like donabe is a national cookware for Japanese people; it’s so close to everybody’s heart. Almost every household owns at least one. It can be something very inexpensive and mass-produced, or, or you can invest in something a little bit more artisan — the super-premium style can go up to $1,000 or $2,000. But most donabe are very affordable and approachable, and if you use it properly, it can last for a long, long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>In the introduction to your book, you talk about how donabe isn’t just a cooking tool; it’s a “way of life” — and a way for a person to have a happy life. Can you elaborate on how that’s the case?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13986360,arts_13959259,arts_13926203']Ultimately, it’s a lifestyle, and it really symbolizes Japanese communal dining. In Japanese conversation, when we say “nabe,” it refers to a hot pot dish, but it also means “let’s get together.” Instead of saying “let’s get together,” we might say, “Let’s nabe sometime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you make hot pot in a donabe, you set up a tabletop burner in the center of the table, put the donabe there, add all the ingredients, and then you cook. Everybody gets to participate: Someone is in charge of the main cooking, but you might ask, “Can you pass that? Can you stir?” It’s really not about the vessel itself or the recipes, but it’s more about how donabe plays a role in communication and connecting people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because donabe is essentially just a bowl and a lid, there’s always this time when the dish is done, so let’s reveal. That’s when everybody’s eyes just focus on the lid. And the joy when the donabe lid is lifted, that’s really so special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s really not about the finished dish, it’s the process of the entire meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987070\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Meat-Group-c-Matt-Russell.jpg\" alt=\"A spread of meat and seafood, ready to be cooked in a donabe for a hot pot meal.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Meat-Group-c-Matt-Russell.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Meat-Group-c-Matt-Russell-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Meat-Group-c-Matt-Russell-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Meat-Group-c-Matt-Russell-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A display of raw meat and seafood, ready to be cooked in the donabe. \u003ccite>(Matt Russell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A lot of American home cooks already have too many pots and pans and might feel like it’s too much to buy this kind of specialized cooking vessel. What do you say to those people when convincing them to give donabe cooking a try?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First of all, I completely understand. [laughs] I promote the spirit of donabe cooking — if you want to use different kinds of pots, that’s totally fine. But I have seen so many people who are like that who say, “Ok, I’ll give it a try,” and buy a basic, medium-size donabe. Then they come back and say, your donabe changed my life and changed my family’s life. They talk about how the donabe is so beautiful to look at and how, when it’s at the center of the table, it just connects people. It becomes their Sunday ritual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, people comment that when cooking in donabe, somehow the food magically tastes better. And that has been proven scientifically, because donabe is made of porous clay. It takes more time to build the heat, and once it gets hot, it stays hot for a long time. So if you’re making a braised dish or a stew or soup, when the pot cools down very slowly, that’s how you develop multiple layers of flavors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Is there one recipe in particular that you suggest that people try cooking in order to convince them of the “donabe way”?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s hard because all the recipes are so personal to me! But probably miso soup or a hot pot dish. Soup is so essential in my life because it calms me and slows me down. Also, rice tastes so good when you cook it in the donabe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987071\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell.jpg\" alt=\"A woman seated in front of a spread of Japanese small plates.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cookbook also includes recipes for assorted small bites meant to be eaten as part of a donabe-centric meal. \u003ccite>(Matt Russell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What about the versatility of donabe? Can you use it for cooking dishes that are completely non-Japanese? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love making curry in the donabe. And orange saffron rice, which is inspired by Persian cuisine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, donabe is not about the recipes; it’s really about the spirit of the cooking. Braising is part of every culture. Recently, I made a Mediterranean-style chickpea and lamb stew with tomato sauce that was really brilliant. And one time, a customer in Norway made a reindeer stew in the donabe and sent me a photo. It looked absolutely delicious.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://toirokitchen.com/collections/books/products/simply-donabe-cookbook\">Simply Donabe\u003c/a>\u003ci> is available wherever books are sold. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ultimately, it’s a lifestyle, and it really symbolizes Japanese communal dining. In Japanese conversation, when we say “nabe,” it refers to a hot pot dish, but it also means “let’s get together.” Instead of saying “let’s get together,” we might say, “Let’s nabe sometime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you make hot pot in a donabe, you set up a tabletop burner in the center of the table, put the donabe there, add all the ingredients, and then you cook. Everybody gets to participate: Someone is in charge of the main cooking, but you might ask, “Can you pass that? Can you stir?” It’s really not about the vessel itself or the recipes, but it’s more about how donabe plays a role in communication and connecting people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because donabe is essentially just a bowl and a lid, there’s always this time when the dish is done, so let’s reveal. That’s when everybody’s eyes just focus on the lid. 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What do you say to those people when convincing them to give donabe cooking a try?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First of all, I completely understand. [laughs] I promote the spirit of donabe cooking — if you want to use different kinds of pots, that’s totally fine. But I have seen so many people who are like that who say, “Ok, I’ll give it a try,” and buy a basic, medium-size donabe. Then they come back and say, your donabe changed my life and changed my family’s life. They talk about how the donabe is so beautiful to look at and how, when it’s at the center of the table, it just connects people. It becomes their Sunday ritual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, people comment that when cooking in donabe, somehow the food magically tastes better. And that has been proven scientifically, because donabe is made of porous clay. It takes more time to build the heat, and once it gets hot, it stays hot for a long time. So if you’re making a braised dish or a stew or soup, when the pot cools down very slowly, that’s how you develop multiple layers of flavors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Is there one recipe in particular that you suggest that people try cooking in order to convince them of the “donabe way”?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s hard because all the recipes are so personal to me! But probably miso soup or a hot pot dish. Soup is so essential in my life because it calms me and slows me down. Also, rice tastes so good when you cook it in the donabe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987071\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell.jpg\" alt=\"A woman seated in front of a spread of Japanese small plates.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cookbook also includes recipes for assorted small bites meant to be eaten as part of a donabe-centric meal. \u003ccite>(Matt Russell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What about the versatility of donabe? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robison and Thomas met as musicians in their junior high orchestra. “We have very strong memories of making music together when we were 12 or 13 years old,” Thomas \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/38-years-together-Tilson-Thomas-and-Robison-marry-5867303.php\">once told\u003c/a> the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13975353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue shirt clasps his hands in appreciation next to a door as smiling friends stand close by\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13975353\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Robison, second from left, leaves the stage with Michael Tilson Thomas, Edwin Outwater and Teddy Abrams at the end of Thomas’ 80th birthday celebration at Davies Symphony Hall, April 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Stefan Cohen / San Francisco Symphony)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In high school and at UC Berkeley, while Thomas continued to study music, Robison became a champion gymnast. In the 1970s, the two reunited in New York state, and were inseparable ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, 38 years after first meeting, the two were married. In 2021, after Thomas was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13909978/michael-tilson-thomas-goes-public-about-cancer-steps-back-from-some-engagements\">diagnosed with a brain tumor\u003c/a>, Robison provided constant care and support. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Robison produced an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13975328/michael-tilson-thomas-80th-birthday-concert-symphony-review\">80th birthday concert\u003c/a> for Thomas at Davies Symphony Hall, and sat by Thomas’ side onstage for the duration of the celebration. At the concert’s end, Thomas sang along to the song “Some Other Time,” gesturing toward Robison on the lines: “There’s so much more embracing / Still to be done / But time is racing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A memorial for Robison has not yet been announced. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986960\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/turtle-tower-1.jpg\" alt=\"A group of me devouring bowls of beef and chicken pho.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/turtle-tower-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/turtle-tower-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/turtle-tower-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/turtle-tower-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turtle Tower, one of San Francisco’s most famous pho restaurants, has a new location in the Marina District. The restaurant is known for its northern-style chicken pho. \u003ccite>(Thien Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/the-midnight-diners\">\u003ci>The Midnight Diners\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is a regular collaboration between KQED food editor Luke Tsai and graphic novelist \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thiendog/?hl=en\">\u003ci>Thien Pham\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>. Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d made the mistake of coming to the Marina District at 10 o’clock on a Friday night, and on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/super-bowl\">Super Bowl\u003c/a> weekend, no less. The intersection of Fillmore and Greenwich was even \u003ci>more\u003c/i> chaotic than usual — both sides of the street swarming with half-drunk twentysomething frat-boy and sorority-girl types traveling in packs of six or eight. Everyone was decked out in their tightest skirts and bro-iest muscle shirts to stand in line outside \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/balboa-cafe-bar-sf-19913258.php\">Balboa Cafe\u003c/a> or any of the half-dozen other bars that flank the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the Marina in a nutshell. Depending on your \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/21/best-restaurants-bars-marina-sf/\">point of view\u003c/a>, it’s either the best or most obnoxious neighborhood in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it goes without saying that our dowdy, middle-aged party did not trek to this corner of the Marina for espresso martinis or a night of sweaty, awkward flirtation. Instead, we’d come in search of much unlikelier treasure: the most wholesome bowl of chicken phở in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what we were hoping for, anyway, when we heard that \u003ca href=\"https://www.turtletowersf.com/\">Turtle Tower\u003c/a> had opened a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reels/DToVxp2kt29/\">brand new location on Fillmore\u003c/a> — and, just as exciting, that it was dishing out hot phở until 3 a.m. on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a serious phở slurper in San Francisco, you’re likely aware of Turtle Tower’s rise and fall and, now, rise again. Probably the most famous and widely beloved phở restaurant in San Francisco during its 25-year run, Turtle Tower operated four locations across the city at its peak. Regulars were understandably devastated, then, when the last location shut its doors in 2023 — and overjoyed when a new ownership group \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2025/3/19/24389523/san-francisco-turtle-tower-pho-restaurant-returns\">revived the business\u003c/a> with a sleek, well-appointed restaurant in the Financial District last spring. Then came the surprise news that Turtle Tower 2.0’s second location would be in the Marina, of all places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986959\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/turtle-tower-2.jpg\" alt='Illustration: Exterior of a restaurant. The sign up top reads, \"Turtle Tower.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/turtle-tower-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/turtle-tower-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/turtle-tower-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/turtle-tower-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turtle Tower’s Marina location is open until 3 a.m. on weekends. \u003ccite>(Thien Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Open for about a month now, the new Fillmore Street restaurant has the look and feel of a swanky fusion restaurant, with low-pulsing electronic dance music and an abundance of stylishly backlit tropical greenery. A chic black-and-gold mural of what appears to be the Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long spans the back wall. All in all, it’s quite a makeover from the stripped-down, mom-and-pop vibe of the original Larkin Street restaurant, where I used to go for big weekend lunches with my family in the early aughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worry, of course, with the opening of a “fancier” Turtle Tower in a non-Asian neighborhood, is that the food is going to get whitewashed and watered down. Indeed, the first thing we noticed is that the menu didn’t list the “deluxe” version of the restaurant’s famous chicken phở (listed as “phở gà lòng” in the old days), which came with giblets and skin for a boost of texture and earthy oomph. When we asked our server about it, she smiled sheepishly and explained that, at least for now, they weren’t offering that version. “We weren’t sure if ‘Marina people’ would eat giblets,” she said. Which is, well, fair enough. (She noted, though, that a lot of Asian customers had been asking for them.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout our meal, there were other small signs of the “Marina-fication” of the restaurant: the (non-Asian) waitstaff’s confusion when one of us asked for some vinegar to mix into his dipping sauce for the phở meats. The fact that the phở arrived with only a single lime wedge and the tiniest imaginable pile of sliced jalapeños. (Not-so-pro tip: You just have to ask for more.) And, no surprise, the phở was priced about $5 higher than it was in the Tenderloin days, just a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when we actually dug into the food, we put aside all our skepticism. We started with an order of the fresh spring rolls stuffed with both shrimp and thin slices of pork — very light and very delicious, in large part because of the smokiness of the grilled pork, which lingered in our mouths. We also ordered the house-made crab chips (a perfect snack under any circumstance) and a plate of “Hanoi”-style chicken wings, which none of us remembered from any of the previous incarnations of Turtle Tower. These were whole, two-joint wings that we pulled apart with our hands, juicy and succulent, and fried to an attractive, crackly sheen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13961997,arts_13954983,arts_13985780']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>Of course the main attraction was the phở itself. Turtle Tower has always specialized in northern-style phở — one of the purest distillations of the form that you can find in the Bay Area. That means the broth is less sweet and incorporates fewer spices and fresh herbs; instead of the giant plate of basil and bean sprouts that you get at southern-style joints, the soup comes topped with just a flurry of chopped scallions and cilantro. What you’re meant to taste is the pure flavor of the chicken or beef itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It had been too long since I’d eaten at the old Turtle Tower for me to say with certainty that the chicken phở was exactly the same. But all it took was one sip of that broth — clear, refined, intensely chicken-y with just a hint of ginger — to be fully satisfied. The noodles were wide and soft and highly slurpable, and even without my precious giblets, I could appreciate the silkiness of the shreds of both dark and white chicken meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beef phở, which many of the restaurant’s Vietnamese regulars like even better than the chicken, is similarly minimalistic. Thin slices of rare beef come lightly pounded, in the northern style, for extra tenderness, and the broth, once again, homes in on the pure essence of beef flavor. Both phởs are the very embodiment of a soup that’ll cure what ails you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the new incarnation of Turtle Tower first opened in the Financial District, that location was also open late on weekends and ran a steeply discounted late-night happy hour menu starting at 11 p.m. — $2 oysters, $8 chicken wings, $4 beers and the like. Now that the Marina location is the only one keeping those late-night hours, the happy hour has been discontinued while the restaurant sorts out its liquor license. But once it does, a manager told us, they plan to start those deals up once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the night, we came away still a bit unsure of exactly what kind of “Marina person” the restaurant is hoping to attract, and how successful that effort has been. At least based on our visit, the crowd is a lot more restrained and low-key than we expected — no party people, just groups of two or three, mostly Asian Americans, quietly enjoying a bowl of phở at the end of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly, everyone just seemed pleased to have found this little oasis of home-cooked goodness — a shelter from all the blustery noise outside. Most of them, I’d dare to venture, seemed like they could handle a bowl of giblets.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/turtletower.sf/?hl=en\">\u003ci>Turtle Tower’s\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> Marina location is open Sunday to Thursday 11 a.m.–9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.–3 a.m. at 3145 Fillmore St. in San Francisco. The restaurant also has a location in the Financial District, at 220 California St., with shorter, non-late-night hours.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>Of course the main attraction was the phở itself. Turtle Tower has always specialized in northern-style phở — one of the purest distillations of the form that you can find in the Bay Area. That means the broth is less sweet and incorporates fewer spices and fresh herbs; instead of the giant plate of basil and bean sprouts that you get at southern-style joints, the soup comes topped with just a flurry of chopped scallions and cilantro. What you’re meant to taste is the pure flavor of the chicken or beef itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It had been too long since I’d eaten at the old Turtle Tower for me to say with certainty that the chicken phở was exactly the same. But all it took was one sip of that broth — clear, refined, intensely chicken-y with just a hint of ginger — to be fully satisfied. The noodles were wide and soft and highly slurpable, and even without my precious giblets, I could appreciate the silkiness of the shreds of both dark and white chicken meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beef phở, which many of the restaurant’s Vietnamese regulars like even better than the chicken, is similarly minimalistic. Thin slices of rare beef come lightly pounded, in the northern style, for extra tenderness, and the broth, once again, homes in on the pure essence of beef flavor. Both phởs are the very embodiment of a soup that’ll cure what ails you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the new incarnation of Turtle Tower first opened in the Financial District, that location was also open late on weekends and ran a steeply discounted late-night happy hour menu starting at 11 p.m. — $2 oysters, $8 chicken wings, $4 beers and the like. Now that the Marina location is the only one keeping those late-night hours, the happy hour has been discontinued while the restaurant sorts out its liquor license. But once it does, a manager told us, they plan to start those deals up once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the night, we came away still a bit unsure of exactly what kind of “Marina person” the restaurant is hoping to attract, and how successful that effort has been. At least based on our visit, the crowd is a lot more restrained and low-key than we expected — no party people, just groups of two or three, mostly Asian Americans, quietly enjoying a bowl of phở at the end of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly, everyone just seemed pleased to have found this little oasis of home-cooked goodness — a shelter from all the blustery noise outside. Most of them, I’d dare to venture, seemed like they could handle a bowl of giblets.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the 17th annual \u003ca href=\"https://sfbeerweek.org/\">SF Beer Week\u003c/a> kicks off this weekend, there are a few things you should know, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/beerandsoul/\">Sayre Piotrkowski\u003c/a>, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://bayareabrewers.org/\">Bay Area Brewers Guild\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s over 200 events at 176 different venues from Monterey to Windsor,” he tells me during a recent call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, \u003ca href=\"https://sfbeerweek.org/profiles/degrees-plato\">Degrees Plato\u003c/a> in Oakland is serving beer with their taco Tuesday special, and \u003ca href=\"https://sfbeerweek.org/profiles/trumer\">Trumer Brewery in Berkeley\u003c/a> is offering brunch and a brew with Oakland Ballers baseball team members. Other evenings, you can enjoy a story night or a trivia competition, attend a pet adoption drive or a vinyl record show. There are “tap takeovers” at Michelin Star-rated restaurants, \u003ca href=\"https://sfbeerweek.org/profiles/visit-santa-rosa\">a 5k marathon in Santa Rosa\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sfbeerweek.org/profiles/del-cielo-livermore/20260225-speed-dating\">a speed dating event at Del Cielo Brewing Co. in Livermore\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986945\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986945\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/SayrePiotrkowski137.jpg\" alt=\"A bald white man sits at a wooden table while drinking a glass of beer.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/SayrePiotrkowski137.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/SayrePiotrkowski137-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/SayrePiotrkowski137-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/SayrePiotrkowski137-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sayre Piotrkowski, executive director of the Bay Area Brewers Guild, enjoys a cold brew. \u003ccite>(Portraits To The People)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One night you’re dropping some real money and drinking \u003ca href=\"https://fairislebrewing.com/\">Fair Isle beer\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.theanchovybar.com/\">The Anchovy Bar\u003c/a> in the City,” says Piotrkowski. “And then, maybe another night, you’re watching \u003ca href=\"https://ticketscandy.com/e/beerweek-rumble-14624\">wrestling in Alameda.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piotrkowski,\u003ca href=\"https://beerandsoul.substack.com/\"> an avid beer writer\u003c/a> who has worked in multiple levels of the industry, says one of the goals of SF Beer Week is to provide something for everyone (who is 21 and over). In doing so, it creates a certain cross-pollination of beer connoisseurs, community lovers and people who appreciate the wide array of offerings found in this region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason for SF Beer Week, Piotrkowski laments, is that \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/07/14/california-breweries-closing-beer-sf\">breweries are struggling across the industry\u003c/a>. But not for the reasons one might assume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will see a lot of stuff talking about ‘wellness trends’ and ‘abstinence trends’ around alcohol. I still think those are pretty small,” Piotrkowski asserts. “The big thing is that, if you’re under 40 and you live in an expensive place in this country, you don’t have any expendable income.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bars, and the beer industry as a whole, are struggling for the same reason many \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/category/nosh/restaurant-closures/\">restaurants, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/bar-closures/\">night clubs\u003c/a> and concert venues are having a hard time staying above water, says Piotrkowski. Cheaper and more convenient forms of fun, like staying home and enjoying subscription entertainment services, have replaced the drive for people to spend money at bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986947\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A0079_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-amphitheater-band-pov_1600w.jpg\" alt=\"Musicians playing on a stage outside in San Francisco. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A0079_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-amphitheater-band-pov_1600w.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A0079_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-amphitheater-band-pov_1600w-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A0079_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-amphitheater-band-pov_1600w-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A0079_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-amphitheater-band-pov_1600w-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF Beer Week offers a number of opportunities for people to hear live music all across the region, from small dive bars to larger outdoor venues. \u003ccite>(Arnold Suliguin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SF Beer Week itself was born out of a slower season for the industry, as the rise in the popularity of “dry January” has pushed people to put down the booze during the start of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“February has always been a time when the local beer scene celebrated,” Piotrkowski says, “and did so with strong and rare beers.” He mentions \u003ca href=\"https://the-bistro.com/event-info\">Hayward’s Double IPA Festival\u003c/a>, which just celebrated its 26th year, as well as\u003ca href=\"https://probrewer.com/beverage-industry-news/business-of-beer/strong-beer-month-starts-this-evening/\"> Strong Beer Month, \u003c/a>which was founded in the late ’90s by \u003ca href=\"https://magnoliabrewing.com/\">Magnolia Brewing\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://21st-amendment.com/\"> 21st Amendment Brewing\u003c/a>. And now, the current iteration of SF Beer Week is more reflective of the current state of small breweries in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest frontier for craft beer, Piotrkowski explains, is making the everyday beer — something he calls the “just-give-me-a-beer beer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986948\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A9821_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-toast-sf-giant-fans.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing SF Giants gear pose for a photo outside while holding a couple of beers.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A9821_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-toast-sf-giant-fans.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A9821_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-toast-sf-giant-fans-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A9821_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-toast-sf-giant-fans-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A9821_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-toast-sf-giant-fans-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF Beer Week: where people support local breweries and local teams. \u003ccite>(Arnold Suliguin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you go back 15–20 years,” Piotrkowski says, “craft breweries really got their foothold at the periphery.” It was the creation of “loud, attention-getting” beers like imperial stouts and double IPAs that were antithetical to common beers, like light lagers and other beverages readily sold by big, well-known brand names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over time,” Piotrkowski tells me, “we sort of won the Slow Food argument, and people just wanted to buy their beers from local companies.” In turn, small breweries began to make pilsners, light lagers and cream ales that could compete with the titans of the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.temescalbrewing.com/\">Temescal Brewing\u003c/a>, which is releasing a special Mexican-style lager made from blue corn and barley, as an example of the change that he’s seeing of late. “It’s probably akin to a Negro Modelo,” Piotrkowski says of the new brew. “Except that no multinational corporate entity gets a penny out of your purchase of that beer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the local brewery sources ingredients from nearby farms. It’s like “\u003ca href=\"https://www.foodliteracycenter.org/food-wiki/farm-table-or-farm-fork\">farm to fork\u003c/a>,” but for beer. “Grain to glass,” he calls it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piotrkowski, who represents the 71 breweries in the Bay Area Brewers Guild, knows that there are a lot of options for entertainment in Northern California. 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Cheaper and more convenient forms of fun, like staying home and enjoying subscription entertainment services, have replaced the drive for people to spend money at bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986947\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A0079_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-amphitheater-band-pov_1600w.jpg\" alt=\"Musicians playing on a stage outside in San Francisco. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A0079_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-amphitheater-band-pov_1600w.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A0079_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-amphitheater-band-pov_1600w-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A0079_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-amphitheater-band-pov_1600w-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A0079_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-amphitheater-band-pov_1600w-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF Beer Week offers a number of opportunities for people to hear live music all across the region, from small dive bars to larger outdoor venues. \u003ccite>(Arnold Suliguin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SF Beer Week itself was born out of a slower season for the industry, as the rise in the popularity of “dry January” has pushed people to put down the booze during the start of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“February has always been a time when the local beer scene celebrated,” Piotrkowski says, “and did so with strong and rare beers.” He mentions \u003ca href=\"https://the-bistro.com/event-info\">Hayward’s Double IPA Festival\u003c/a>, which just celebrated its 26th year, as well as\u003ca href=\"https://probrewer.com/beverage-industry-news/business-of-beer/strong-beer-month-starts-this-evening/\"> Strong Beer Month, \u003c/a>which was founded in the late ’90s by \u003ca href=\"https://magnoliabrewing.com/\">Magnolia Brewing\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://21st-amendment.com/\"> 21st Amendment Brewing\u003c/a>. And now, the current iteration of SF Beer Week is more reflective of the current state of small breweries in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest frontier for craft beer, Piotrkowski explains, is making the everyday beer — something he calls the “just-give-me-a-beer beer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986948\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A9821_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-toast-sf-giant-fans.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing SF Giants gear pose for a photo outside while holding a couple of beers.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A9821_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-toast-sf-giant-fans.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A9821_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-toast-sf-giant-fans-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A9821_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-toast-sf-giant-fans-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/sbw25_sfbw-fest_BE9A9821_Arnold-Suliguin_crowd-toast-sf-giant-fans-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF Beer Week: where people support local breweries and local teams. \u003ccite>(Arnold Suliguin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you go back 15–20 years,” Piotrkowski says, “craft breweries really got their foothold at the periphery.” It was the creation of “loud, attention-getting” beers like imperial stouts and double IPAs that were antithetical to common beers, like light lagers and other beverages readily sold by big, well-known brand names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over time,” Piotrkowski tells me, “we sort of won the Slow Food argument, and people just wanted to buy their beers from local companies.” In turn, small breweries began to make pilsners, light lagers and cream ales that could compete with the titans of the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.temescalbrewing.com/\">Temescal Brewing\u003c/a>, which is releasing a special Mexican-style lager made from blue corn and barley, as an example of the change that he’s seeing of late. “It’s probably akin to a Negro Modelo,” Piotrkowski says of the new brew. “Except that no multinational corporate entity gets a penny out of your purchase of that beer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the local brewery sources ingredients from nearby farms. It’s like “\u003ca href=\"https://www.foodliteracycenter.org/food-wiki/farm-table-or-farm-fork\">farm to fork\u003c/a>,” but for beer. “Grain to glass,” he calls it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piotrkowski, who represents the 71 breweries in the Bay Area Brewers Guild, knows that there are a lot of options for entertainment in Northern California. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.trinamrobinson.com/\">Trina Michelle Robinson\u003c/a> is trying to talk to ghosts. For 10 years, the San Francisco-based artist has been on a journey to uncover and share the stories of her ancestors and the legacies of Black migration. She hasn’t always succeeded – and that’s exactly what makes her work powerful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson’s two-venue exhibition \u003ci>Open Your Eyes to Water\u003c/i>, on view through May 16 at\u003ca href=\"https://rootdivision.org/exhibition/trina-michelle-robinson-open-your-eyes-to-water/\"> 500 Capp Street\u003c/a> in the Mission, and\u003ca href=\"https://500cappstreet.org/current-exhibitions/trina-m-robinson-open-your-eyes-to-water/\"> Root Division\u003c/a>, South of Market, contains work from the past decade, spanning multiple mediums, continents and histories. All of Robinson’s work begins with archival research, mining the records of her ancestors’ lives in Kentucky, Ohio and California. The results include video and installation as a form of embodied history, photography and printmaking as a way of engaging directly with the archive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 500 Capp Street,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11243184/david-irelands-cabinet-of-curiosities-opens-its-mission-district-doors\"> former home\u003c/a> of conceptual artist\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/David_Ireland/\"> David Ireland\u003c/a> (1930-2009), Robinson has staged three installations. \u003ci>Encoded\u003c/i> (2022), a three-channel video piece in the house’s garage, opens with a long shot of the Ohio River before following Robinson’s own travels to Senegal, seeking vestiges of what her ancestors might have experienced. The film ends on the underwater memorial for the\u003ca href=\"https://www.melfisher.org/copy-of-henrietta-marie-1700\"> Henrietta Marie\u003c/a>, a British slave ship that sank off the Florida Straits in 1700, with Robinson’s sparse voiceover documenting the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_500Capp-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986892\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_500Capp-13.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_500Capp-13-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_500Capp-13-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_500Capp-13-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of Trina Michelle Robinson’s ‘Liberation Through Redaction’ (2022) at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Hunter Ridenour)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 500 Capp Street’s archive room, Robinson’s own archival materials showcase the historiography essential to her practice while noting a glaring omission from \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2016/01/qa-understanding-david-irelands-art/\">Ireland’s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Marginalized voices weren’t always celebrated in certain parts of David’s life,” Robinson tells KQED. “If you look at his book collection, especially in relation to Africa, many are about people going to Africa for adventure. I’m welcoming the narrative David left out, fully focused on the Black experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13922116']Robinson also leverages omission as a rhetorical tool for empowerment. \u003ci>Liberation Through Redaction \u003c/i>(2022), an immersive, multi-media installation occupying the home’s upstairs parlor, constructed for Capp Street by Dan Ake and Andy Vogt, features a plot of soil filled with flora – goldenrod representing Kentucky, pampas grass representing California – and a pedestal holding an intaglio print of the 1835 will of a white individual who enslaved Robinson’s ancestors. The text has been redacted with red thread so that only references to the freedom of Robinson’s ancestors remain legible. The piece is accompanied by a soundscape of field recordings from Berea, Kentucky; Ripley, Ohio; and Yokuts Valley, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The installation creates a somatic experience, playing on the duality between presence and absence to convey the individual human narrative often lost in historicizing. “I want to create an immersive space that triggers a memory that might be deep inside someone, that they’re able to unlock by entering that space,” Robinson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986893\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-39.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-39-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-39-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-39-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view of Trine Michelle Robinson’s ‘Elegy for Nancy’ (2022) at Root Division in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Hunter Ridenour)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Root Division, \u003ci>Elegy for Nancy\u003c/i> (2022) is dedicated to Robinson’s most distant known ancestor, who was born around 1770, likely in Virginia, before migrating to Kentucky where she was enslaved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Footage of Robinson wading into the Sacramento River is interspersed with shots of the Ohio River, which runs through both West Virginia and Kentucky, as well as archival footage of a 1920s African-American baptism, scenes from the Ogun River in Nigeria and text from Lucille Clifton’s poem “Blessing the Boats.” (The title of the exhibition, \u003ci>Open Your Eyes to Water\u003c/i>, is taken from the same poem.) Continuing the matrilineage into the present, an altar holds contributions by an intergenerational group of Bay Area Black women artists, including Lynse Cooper, Chloe King and Ashley Spencer. You can feel Nancy’s presence, if only in relief, in the attempt to make her story and legacy visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of intaglio prints published by Oakland’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.moonlightpress.co/\"> Moonlight Press\u003c/a>, titled \u003ci>Memory Index: Imagined Family Heirlooms\u003c/i> (2024-2026), show a grouping of speculative family heirlooms – a knife, a mourning bonnet, a fan, a pinecone. The title of each print is borrowed from an archival document pertaining to each ancestor, vivid with poetic imagery like \u003ci>“… beautiful ladies attired in the most magnificent costumes … black lace, ostrich tips” The Appeal, January 20, 1889.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986895\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1191\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986895\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-160x95.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-768x457.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-1536x915.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view of Trine Michelle Robinson’s ‘Elegy for Nancy’ (2022) at Root Division in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Hunter Ridenour)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A single, smaller intaglio, \u003ci>Refuge\u003c/i> (2022), is a forest scene showing a patch of land in Kentucky where Robinson’s ancestors were enslaved. Absence is again employed for empowerment: In the archive, the redaction of violence poses a danger of erasing history, while here, the absence of bodies is a reclamation of personhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speculative liberties Robinson takes with her archival subjects highlight the difficulty of tracing family history, especially for Black American communities. In her work, however, she has turned the inability to fully apprehend the past from an impediment to the very subject. Like any ghost story, you’re left to ask yourself what’s real and what isn’t. 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The piece is accompanied by a soundscape of field recordings from Berea, Kentucky; Ripley, Ohio; and Yokuts Valley, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The installation creates a somatic experience, playing on the duality between presence and absence to convey the individual human narrative often lost in historicizing. “I want to create an immersive space that triggers a memory that might be deep inside someone, that they’re able to unlock by entering that space,” Robinson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986893\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-39.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-39-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-39-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-39-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view of Trine Michelle Robinson’s ‘Elegy for Nancy’ (2022) at Root Division in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Hunter Ridenour)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Root Division, \u003ci>Elegy for Nancy\u003c/i> (2022) is dedicated to Robinson’s most distant known ancestor, who was born around 1770, likely in Virginia, before migrating to Kentucky where she was enslaved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Footage of Robinson wading into the Sacramento River is interspersed with shots of the Ohio River, which runs through both West Virginia and Kentucky, as well as archival footage of a 1920s African-American baptism, scenes from the Ogun River in Nigeria and text from Lucille Clifton’s poem “Blessing the Boats.” (The title of the exhibition, \u003ci>Open Your Eyes to Water\u003c/i>, is taken from the same poem.) Continuing the matrilineage into the present, an altar holds contributions by an intergenerational group of Bay Area Black women artists, including Lynse Cooper, Chloe King and Ashley Spencer. You can feel Nancy’s presence, if only in relief, in the attempt to make her story and legacy visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of intaglio prints published by Oakland’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.moonlightpress.co/\"> Moonlight Press\u003c/a>, titled \u003ci>Memory Index: Imagined Family Heirlooms\u003c/i> (2024-2026), show a grouping of speculative family heirlooms – a knife, a mourning bonnet, a fan, a pinecone. The title of each print is borrowed from an archival document pertaining to each ancestor, vivid with poetic imagery like \u003ci>“… beautiful ladies attired in the most magnificent costumes … black lace, ostrich tips” The Appeal, January 20, 1889.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986895\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1191\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986895\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-160x95.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-768x457.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Trina_RD-1536x915.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view of Trine Michelle Robinson’s ‘Elegy for Nancy’ (2022) at Root Division in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Hunter Ridenour)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A single, smaller intaglio, \u003ci>Refuge\u003c/i> (2022), is a forest scene showing a patch of land in Kentucky where Robinson’s ancestors were enslaved. Absence is again employed for empowerment: In the archive, the redaction of violence poses a danger of erasing history, while here, the absence of bodies is a reclamation of personhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speculative liberties Robinson takes with her archival subjects highlight the difficulty of tracing family history, especially for Black American communities. In her work, however, she has turned the inability to fully apprehend the past from an impediment to the very subject. Like any ghost story, you’re left to ask yourself what’s real and what isn’t. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you’d been traveling down \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/valencia-street\">Valencia Street\u003c/a> on Monday afternoon, you might have seen a 100-boomer-long procession snaking down the sidewalk in the light drizzle, its umbrella-toting occupants looking halfway like mourners. As one among the age 50-, 60- and 70-and-up gathered, I can verify: Our line was not for a funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather, it was a celebration of a living legend. Van Morrison, with a touch of the deadpan, had chosen The Chapel — a former mortuary — as the site of an invite-only run-through of his new, blues-heavy album, \u003cem>Somebody Tried to Sell Me a Bridge\u003c/em>. He’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.palaceoffinearts.org/\">in town the rest of the week over at the Palace of Fine Arts\u003c/a>, and presumably, those five shows will yield more standard-issue sets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13847949']On Monday, though, between the setlist, the 400-capacity room and the 3 p.m. start time, well, this was a one-of-a-kind Van Morrison show. That much was evident after he took the stage and — just two minutes into set opener “Kidney Stew Blues” — Morrison turned to his seven-piece band, and … \u003cem>cracked a smile and laughed\u003c/em>?!?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Polymarket or Kalshi, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/business/prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi.html\">whatever the world’s crypto weirdos are into\u003c/a>, took bets on events to happen at a Van Morrison show, “smiling and laughing” would pay out 500 to 1. On record, he’s \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_It_Gonna_Take%3F\">complained bitterly about COVID guidelines\u003c/a>; onstage, he sometimes gets compared to Oscar the Grouch. He has lodged himself in the showbiz grump hall of fame along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3cBp_Bf43M\">Billy Joel when he is in Russia and it is the 1980s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But man, give the Irish guy a small club and a bunch of blues songs from Black American artists like Willie Dixon, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, and he loosens up like a rusty bolt blasted with WD-40.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986761\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_7021-1.jpg\" alt=\"Van Morrison performs at The Chapel in San Francisco on Feb. 16, 2026. The singer performed songs from his 48th album, ‘Somebody Tried to Sell Me a Bridge,’ for an invite-only crowd.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_7021-1.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_7021-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_7021-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_7021-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Morrison performs at The Chapel in San Francisco on Feb. 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Kathy Henson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During “Madame Butterfly Blues,” he jokingly “fined” keyboardist Mitch Woods with five full-finger hand signals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/k42u89/til_that_james_brown_would_impose_fines_on_his/\">James Brown-style\u003c/a>. After the rollicking “I’m Gonna Play the Honky Tonks,” an obscurity by blues singer Marie Adams, he \u003cem>arooooo-ed\u003c/em> and \u003cem>yip yip yip yip yip yip\u003c/em>ped into the mic like an excited hound or \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DSAiDHqkeAH/\">an East Bay punk singer on drugs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the set’s most transcendent moment, Morrison reinvented Fats Domino’s “Ain’t That a Shame,” introducing new phrasing, rhythm and melody to create something hallowed and tender. That’s Van the singer; there was also Van the music director, conducting his band piece by piece — a piano chord here, a cymbal crash there. Morrison ad-libbed the phrase “stop breaking down” 17 times in a row while the band crested its long crescendo, turning the air into gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the music writer \u003ca href=\"https://www.joelselvin.com/\">Joel Selvin\u003c/a>, a proud part-time grump himself, included droplets in his \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> columns like “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/grammy-nominations-a-snooze-3181907.php\">Truth be told, many people in the industry don’t like the music they are making. They go home and listen to old Van Morrison records like everyone else\u003c/a>” — this is the Van Morrison he meant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1046px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986760\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_1037.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1046\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_1037.jpg 1046w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_1037-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/IMG_1037-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1046px) 100vw, 1046px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A marquee outside the Chapel announces Van Morrison’s afternoon set. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Naturally, over the 80-minute set, some sections lagged, with the top-notch band applying formulaic arrangements to “I’m Ready,” “Can’t Help Myself” and “Social Climbing Scene,” the latter a Morrison original about the vapid quest for clout. During his other original composition, the complainy “Somebody Tried to Sell Me a Bridge,” Morrison hunched over his printed lyrics and sang them with only a few ounces of conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there was Van the perfectionist, kicking off “Rock Me Baby” after two false starts: “Too fast,” he said. During the first verse, in an agreeable tempo, he looked toward Woods: “Play!” Woods ran up and down the keys. “Not that much!” Morrison said. “Cut it in half!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the man knows what he wants, and when he gets it, everything falls into place. After an encore of Sonny Boy Williamson’s “Help Me,” the familiar three chords of “Gloria” charged in, somehow both a surprise and a foregone conclusion. For a few minutes, the crowd forgot about the troubles outside, chanting with a collective uplift of \u003cem>G-L-O-R-I-A\u003c/em>, and Morrison was in his happy place of being in a bar band again.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Van Morrison performs Feb. 17, 18, 19, 23 and 24 at the Palace of Fine Arts (3301 Lyon St., San Francisco). \u003ca href=\"https://www.palaceoffinearts.org/\">Tickets and more information here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been nearly a year since \u003ci>R-Evolution\u003c/i>, Marco Cochrane’s 48-foot-tall metal sculpture of a nude woman, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13974401/r-evolution-marco-cochrane-embarcadero-plaza-nude-woman-sculpture\">arrived at San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza\u003c/a>. Now the project is seeking \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/meeting--february-18-2026--visual-arts-committee-meeting\">approval from city agencies\u003c/a> to extend the artwork’s temporary installation for another six months, until Oct. 5, 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>R-Evolution\u003c/i> was originally approved for a period of six months to one year by the San Francisco Arts Commission, which oversees the city’s public art, and Recreation and Parks, which oversees Embarcadero Plaza. In September 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/30/embaracadero-naked-lady-statue-extension-march-2026/\">SF Standard\u003c/a> reported that Recreation and Parks had officially extended the sculpture’s stay through March 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without another extension, the sculpture will be deinstalled by April 7, 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13981940']The piece is part of the ever-growing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13981940/big-art-loop-burning-man-san-francisco-sijbrandij-foundation\">Big Art Loop\u003c/a>, an initiative funded by the Sijbrandij Foundation to place up to 100 pieces of temporary, large-scale public art around San Francisco. The project installed around 20 pieces of sculpture in city parks and along SF Port property in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative from Building 180, the agency that leads the project’s curation and operations, will make a presentation to the San Francisco Arts Commission’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/meeting--february-18-2026--visual-arts-committee-meeting\">Visual Arts Committee\u003c/a> on Wednesday, Feb. 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six-month extension must be approved by the Visual Arts Committee, the full Arts Commission and then Recreation and Parks. Both the Feb. 18 Visual Arts Committee meeting and the full Arts Commission meeting on March 2 will provide opportunities for public comment on the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson confirmed that Recreation and Parks does not incur any costs from the installation of \u003ci>R-Evolution\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13986545']In a \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/R-Evolution_Extension_Proposal_020926.pdf\">presentation\u003c/a> created by Building 180 and the Big Art Loop for next week’s meeting, \u003ci>R-Evolution\u003c/i> is framed as a convenient placeholder until Embarcadero Plaza and Sue Bierman Park renovations begin. Recreation and Parks \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/1819/Embarcadero-Plaza-and-Sue-Bierman-Park-R\">currently lists\u003c/a> that project’s construction start date as “TBD.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other arguments to extend the sculpture’s stay include a form of advertising for the Big Art Loop itself. “Extending the current installation sustains momentum while encouraging artists to submit proposals for future opportunities, rather than pausing activity at the site,” the presentation reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surveys undertaken by Building 180 and the Big Art Loop show 85% of respondents support extending the artwork’s installation. The presentation does not detail how many people were surveyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/meeting--february-18-2026--visual-arts-committee-meeting\">Visual Arts Committee meeting\u003c/a> will take place Wednesday, Feb. 18 at 2 p.m. in City Hall’s room 416.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent Saturday morning, about a dozen elegantly dressed pastry lovers, decked out in their finest Regency-era gowns and dainty flower hats, promenaded into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/bampfa\">Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\u003c/a>. Up the museum’s bright red staircase they went, pausing occasionally to snap a selfie, until they’d reached the second-floor cafe, where a handsome spread of teacakes and finger sandwiches awaited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The occasion? A \u003cem>Bridgerton\u003c/em>-themed tea party, which the cafe, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13980465/kopi-bar-bampfa-cafe-berkeley-avocado-iced-coffee-kaya-toast\">Kopi Bar\u003c/a>, had timed to coincide with the soapy Netflix costume drama’s fourth season premiere. Thus the cavalcade of pearls and frilly chiffon gowns. Everything about the event appeared to be oh-so-perfectly British in its sensibilities — except that the food displayed on the wooden two-tier cake stands wasn’t \u003cem>only \u003c/em>your typical array of scones, clotted cream and cucumber sandwiches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cinnamon-roll-like pastry swirls shot through with sweet pandan and coconut sat next to crispy beef rendang samosas. Curried tuna salad topped delicate open-face sourdough brioche sandwiches. And while one sandwich did feature sliced cucumbers, they were mainly there to provide a cooling counterpoint to the fiery sambal-spiked egg salad on top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the kind of food that chef-owner Nora Haron likes to serve at Kopi Bar — a reflection of her background as a Singaporean immigrant of Indonesian-Indian descent. And while the spread might have surprised some Anglophile tea party enthusiasts, anyone who’s taken high tea at, say, one of Singapore’s grand hotels would find the mix of Eastern and Western flavors utterly familiar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, in countries like Singapore and Malaysia, where afternoon tea is a well-loved remnant of British colonization, it’s standard practice to combine the format and the aesthetics of English-style tea service with an infusion of Asian flavors. There, too, Haron likes to point out, guests get dressed up and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13963228/indonesian-high-tea-kopi-bar-sandai-walnut-creek\">sip their Earl Grey with their pinkies out\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986143\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986143\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_003-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Diners enjoying an afternoon tea spread inside a busy cafe.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_003-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_003-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_003-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_003-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests share tea and pastries while dressed in “Bridgerton”-inspired outfits during Kopi Bar’s themed high tea service on Jan. 31, 2026, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has its own rich tea party traditions, mostly nodding to the British style. But up until a couple of years ago, it was nearly impossible to find this kind of hybridized, Asian-inspired afternoon tea service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s no longer the case. In fact, we’re experiencing something of a golden age for Asian-style afternoon tea here in the Bay Area, as new pop-ups and standalone tea rooms crop up to satisfy the growing demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To wit: Kopi Bar’s aforementioned \u003cem>Bridgerton \u003c/em>tea series will take over a section of the cafe every Saturday at least through the end of February. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/littlemoonbakehouse/?hl=en\">Little Moon Bakehouse\u003c/a>, an Asian American vegan baking company in Oakland, hosts “reimagined” afternoon tea pop-ups at different venues around the Bay — packing 100 sweets lovers onto, say, the second floor of San Francisco’s Ferry Building for moon cakes and mini pork floss buns. Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pamanaplantas/?hl=en\">Pamana Plantas\u003c/a>, a plant store in Berkeley, has started throwing kamayan-inspired \u003ca href=\"https://pamanaplantas.com/pages/kamayan-tea-parties\">Filipino tea parties\u003c/a>, lining the tables with banana leaves and ube pastries. And while the afternoon tea program at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sonandgarden/?hl=en\">Son & Garden\u003c/a>, a lavishly flower-bedecked spot from the owners of the Farmhouse Thai restaurant empire, doesn’t have an explicit Asian focus, its \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/son-and-garden-san-francisco?select=WSZlwDtjjA9iLKVlv9XNng\">themed tea sets\u003c/a> often include delicacies like Japanese cherry blossom cookies and homemade samosas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986142\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986142\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of a diner's hand holding up an open-face avocado sandwich.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_001-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A guest at Kopi Bar holds a tea sandwich topped with avocado and herbs. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the OG of the genre, Alameda’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/malayatearoom/?hl=en\">Malaya Tea Room\u003c/a>, which has served elegant Malaysian afternoon tea sets, both in person and as a take-home kit, for nearly seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Haron says the tea parties have by far been her most popular events since she started hosting them last year. After she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13980465/kopi-bar-bampfa-cafe-berkeley-avocado-iced-coffee-kaya-toast\">moved Kopi Bar to Berkeley\u003c/a> from its original Walnut Creek location this past fall, she received a steady stream of DMs from old customers, pleading with her: “Please, please, will you do this again?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to such a groundswell of support, Haron says, laughing, “How can I not?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reclaiming a colonial history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of course, the British were the ones who brought the practice of a light afternoon meal with tea to Singapore and Malaysia during their long period of colonial rule — from 1819 to 1963, in the case of Singapore. The Raffles Hotel, probably the most iconic place to take tea in Singapore, started offering its afternoon tea service — complete with live orchestra — in 1918.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The new enterprise should be warmly encouraged by the public of both sexes who often find the hours between 4:30 and dinner time hang heavily,” an \u003ca href=\"https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19180109-1.2.26?qt=%22afternoon%20tea%22,%20%22raffles%20hotel%22&q=%22afternoon%20tea%22%20%22raffles%20hotel%22\">article in Singaporean newspaper \u003cem>The Straits Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> enthused at the time. Meanwhile, a popular restaurant called Emmerson’s Tiffin Room was advertising a more modest daily afternoon tea \u003ca href=\"https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singfreepressb18980702-1.2.32.2?qt=%22afternoon%20tea%22,%20emmerson&q=%22afternoon%20tea%22%20%22emmerson%27s%22\">as early as 1898\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986151\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986151\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_031-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in an elegant dark blue dress with matching floral hat.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_031-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_031-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_031-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_031-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Lee, a guest at Kopi Bar’s “Bridgerton”-themed high tea, poses in the stairwell at BAMPFA. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These initial offerings were mostly geared toward Singapore’s British residents, as well as wealthy travelers visiting from Europe. But the custom of taking afternoon tea was eventually taken up by locals as well — and persisted long after the British left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local expressions of the tradition began as early as the 1960s, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kfseetoh/?hl=en\">KF Seetoh\u003c/a>, probably the foremost street food expert in Singapore. Cafes began selling kaya toast and local coffee in the afternoon; curry puffs and pandan cakes also first appeared around this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These days at Raffles, you’ll find Indian tiffin meals \u003cem>and\u003c/em> tiered trays of high tea offerings, [everything] from the usual British fare to even \u003ca href=\"https://ccs.city/en/chinese-cultural-club/chinese-culinary/nyonya-cake\">Nyonya cakes\u003c/a>,” Seetoh says. “The evolution [can be] credited to finding an identity true to the mishmash of cultures in Singapore — the best of everyone’s kitchens and grandmas’ recipes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar story played out in Malaysia. For Malaya Tea Room owner Leena Lim, going out for tea was an occasional mother-daughter treat she remembers enjoying all through her childhood. Every couple of months, her mother would bring her to afternoon tea at the Shangri-La Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, where she’d marvel at all of the fancy cakes and finger sandwiches.[aside postID=arts_13986360 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/yaichi-kaisendon.jpg']“It was such an intimate, beautiful experience,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, in the ’80s and ’90s, most of the upscale hotel afternoon tea places in Malaysia still served food that was overwhelmingly British. At most, Lim recalls, maybe one item — say, a curry puff — would nod toward the local food culture. Because afternoon tea at the big hotels was “fancy” and expensive, Lim says even locals \u003cem>wanted\u003c/em> the food to be authentically British. Why would anyone pay so much to eat a Malaysian snack they could buy down the street for just a few ringgits?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lim estimates it’s only in the last 10 years or so that even the fanciest British-style tea rooms in Malaysia and Singapore have started leaning more into local flavors, adding sambals and curries and kuehs (assorted bite-size treats made with glutinous rice) into the mix with the scones and cucumber sandwiches that people still expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lim opened Malaya Tea Room in 2019, on a quiet stretch of Central Avenue in Alameda, she wanted it to be more of a hybrid. At the time, she didn’t know of any other businesses that were throwing Asian–inspired afternoon tea parties. Beloved local institutions like Lovejoy’s more or less replicate the British traditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2020/9/14/21436496/malaya-tea-room-afternoon-tea-takeout-box-kaya-jam-rendang-alameda\">Lim wanted to do both\u003c/a>. She planned to do the British stuff just as well as, or maybe even better than, the purely Anglophilic places — to, for instance, be one of the only places that make their clotted cream from scratch. But she also wanted to introduce customers to elegant, afternoon tea versions of some of her favorite Malaysian street snacks — in other words, to serve food that actually tastes \u003cem>good\u003c/em>. (She’d grown to find the British standards to be quite bland and boring.) Her menu included one finger sandwich that’s based on kaya toast, another that combines pork floss with a homemade basil spread, and yet another that features bakkwa (Malaysian pork jerky).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986561\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_039-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three-tiered cake stand with an array of cakes, pastries and finger sandwiches.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_039-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_039-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_039-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_039-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">British-style scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam sit alongside curried potato canapés on gluten-free crackers during afternoon tea at Malaya Tea Room in Alameda on Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When my family arrived at Malaya on a recent Sunday, the atmosphere inside the cozy tea room was languid and vaguely tropical — lush greenery sprawled in every direction; a ceiling fan spun lazily up above. Nostalgic knickknacks (antique Chinese vases, an abacus, an old Hup Seng cracker tin) decorated the display cabinets. On the table was a little bell to ring when you were ready for your server to come take your order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sandwiches we loved best included the curry chicken, made with coconut milk and a secret spice blend, and a sardine-and-cucumber number that Lim makes by doctoring the canned sardines in tomato sauce that you can buy at Asian grocers. On the sweets side, we enjoyed an airy-light pandan chiffon cake that wasn’t \u003cem>too \u003c/em>sweet — the ultimate compliment for an Asian dessert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the egg salad sandwich, which we ordered off the British side of the menu, was uncommonly good — lush with Kewpie mayonnaise and served on fluffy milk bread. It tasted exactly like the ones you get at 7-Eleven in Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lim says that’s exactly what she was going for: a familiar flavor that reminds you of childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986559\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_034-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian woman poses in front of a tiered cake stand with pastries and sandwiches.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_034-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_034-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_034-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_034-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leena Lim, owner of Malaya Tea Room, sits behind a table set for afternoon tea. The tea room opened in Alameda in 2019 and has become a destination for specialty tea service in the East Bay. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her business has had its ups and downs over the past seven years, especially with the pandemic hitting just months after it opened. But she’s developed a loyal customer base, and people do seem to better understand Malaya’s afternoon tea offerings now than they did in the shop’s early days. Part of that, she says, just has to do with how much more popular Asian food is these days — how there’s now a cultural cachet to being the sort of person who understands pandan and ube: “Otherwise, it’s like who are you? Do you even live here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helps that afternoon tea is the ultimate Instagram-friendly meal. Plus, Lim says, “people love dressing up,” and going out for tea provides a rare opportunity to do that. Every year, she has a big group that comes in cosplaying as anime characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During our visit, we spotted three elderly women enjoying a quiet conversation, a table of Gen Z Taiwanese ladies chattering happily in Mandarin, and a group of white otaku having an intense debate about \u003cem>Dragon Ball Z\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I even get groups of men who come in by themselves,” Lim says. “I think that’s awesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tea with a twist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bakeries and cafes that offer Asian-style afternoon tea in the Bay Area all have their own charm — and their own little twists on the genre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little Moon Bakehouse owner Annie Wang says her pop-ups are a natural extension of the fact that she started baking bread for the first time in 2024, adding a variety of Chinese bakery–style buns to her repertoire of plant-based cookies and mooncakes. Unlike Wang’s other baked goods, the breads don’t have long enough of a shelf life to ship nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986606\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/LITTLE-MOON-BAKEHOUSE-TEA-PARTY-2025-136-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/LITTLE-MOON-BAKEHOUSE-TEA-PARTY-2025-136-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/LITTLE-MOON-BAKEHOUSE-TEA-PARTY-2025-136-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/LITTLE-MOON-BAKEHOUSE-TEA-PARTY-2025-136-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/LITTLE-MOON-BAKEHOUSE-TEA-PARTY-2025-136-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little Moon Bakehouse owner Annie Wang (standing) mingles with guests at her afternoon tea pop-up at the San Francisco Ferry Building on Dec. 14, 2025. Featured items included plant-based mooncakes and mini pork floss buns. \u003ccite>(Phil Stockbridge/SF Event Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I realized that this would be great for an experience,” she says. She started renting out venues across the Bay Area to host one-day afternoon tea pop-ups, filling up three-tier cake stands with an equal split of sweet and savory treats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 22, she’ll host her second tea pop-up in the San Francisco Ferry Building — a \u003ca href=\"https://littlemoonbakehouse.com/products/afternoon-tea-in-sf-sun-dec-14-ferry-building-copy\">Lunar New Year–themed bash\u003c/a> for 100 guests, seated at long tables that stretch the length of the festive second-floor Grand Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The menu will include miniature pork floss buns, garlic butter buns, and \u003ca href=\"https://littlemoonbakehouse.com/products/preorder-soy-sauce-chocolate-citrus-cookie-sandwich-heydoh-x-little-moon-bakehouse\">citrus zest sugar cookies\u003c/a> filled with soy sauce–spiked white chocolate (that one is a collaboration with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/heydoh.co/\">Heydoh\u003c/a>, a Taiwanese American soy sauce brand). In the coming months, she’ll host \u003ca href=\"https://littlemoonbakehouse.com/collections/afternoon-tea\">additional pop-ups\u003c/a> in SF Chinatown, the Sunset District and San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986562\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986562\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_042-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Tea kettles, sugar bowls and metal canisters of loose-leaf tea on a wooden credenza.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_042-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_042-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_042-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_042-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loose-leaf teas line a wooden cabinet at Malaya Tea Room. The tea room serves a wide selection of teas in a space filled with nostalgic antique furnishings. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Jai Kandayah, the owner of Pleasanton’s recently closed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/curryleavesbistro/?hl=en\">Curry Leaves Bistro\u003c/a>, says he never \u003cem>intended \u003c/em>to serve afternoon tea at his restaurant. He, too, grew up taking afternoon tea in Malaysia, but not the kind served at fancy hotels, which wasn’t accessible for working-class people. For the majority of Malaysians, afternoon tea — or high tea — was more of a home ritual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(In Kandayah’s experience, Malaysians are more likely to talk about “high tea” than afternoon tea, referring to a heartier meal eaten later in the afternoon, at perhaps 4 or 5 p.m. after they get home from work — much more practical for working-class folks who can’t leave their jobs to eat cakes for an hour at 2 in the afternoon.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These meals always featured local flavors, Kandayah recalls. “I remember my mom would make a big pot of tea in the afternoon and then usually a savory snack — banana fritters, fried yucca, fried yams, fried taro,” he says. Sometimes the bread man would come around, and they’d buy a loaf and dip the bread in the curry that was left over from lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local high tea buffets he remembers frequenting as a young man similarly skewed toward Malaysian flavors. Many of them would even serve fried noodles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But again, Kandayah never had a high tea menu at Curry Leaves Bistro. Instead, regular customers — all of them older Malaysian immigrants — would knock on his door on Friday or Saturday afternoons, when the restaurant was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would call and say, ‘Hey, there are eight of us coming in at 4 o’clock after our golf game. Can you prepare some tea and roti, and a plate of noodles?’” Kandayah says. “And we would do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curry Leaves Bistro wound up closing this past fall after the landlord increased the rent, but Kandayah has already scouted out a new location in the East Bay and hopes to reopen later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, he says, afternoon tea on the restaurant’s backyard patio is going to come officially baked into the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A celebration of immigration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Kopi Bar has leaned into the cosplay of it all. In addition to her \u003cem>Bridgerton\u003c/em> series, Haron has also hosted Bollywood- and \u003cem>Arabian Nights\u003c/em>–themed afternoon teas, and encourages guests to come dressed up to reflect the theme. People come for Haron’s stellar baked goods, sure. But they also come because the tea parties are joyful and extravagant — an all-out happening, as they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for Haron, in the current political climate — while masked federal agents whisk soccer moms and five-year-old kids away to far-off detention centers — her tea parties aren’t just some frivolous, let-them-eat-cake moments to cosplay as British aristocrats. They’re important rituals that allow immigrants like her to come together and celebrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986148\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_019-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in glasses poses inside a cafe.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_019-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_019-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_019-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_019-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Nora Haron, owner of Kopi Bar and Bakery, poses in her cafe on the second floor of BAMPFA. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This idea of ‘illegal’ immigrants being criminals — that’s obnoxious. We’re doing something for the community. You know, we’re bringing people together. We’re creating jobs,” she says. “So it’s wonderful to be able to support one another this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, she says, food is intertwined with the immigration process. And traditions like afternoon tea are a vital way for immigrants to maintain their cultural identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Singapore and Malaysia, the history of afternoon tea followed the same path as so many other things in Southeast Asia: The colonizers brought it, but locals improved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986547\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GoldenAgeofAsianStyleHigh-Tea_GH_020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up on a pandan pastry, a cup of tea and a menu for a special high tea event.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GoldenAgeofAsianStyleHigh-Tea_GH_020_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GoldenAgeofAsianStyleHigh-Tea_GH_020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GoldenAgeofAsianStyleHigh-Tea_GH_020_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GoldenAgeofAsianStyleHigh-Tea_GH_020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pandan and coconut pastry swirl sits next to Kopi Bar’s “Bridgerton”-inspired high tea menu. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the food writer Seetoh puts it, “You can still spend over a hundred bucks for the little pinky high teas at posh hotels flavored with affluence, but the majority, even the well-heeled, prefer a kueh salat, curry puff or ang ku kueh at local cafes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels more like a Singapore story,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it goes here in the diaspora, as Asian Americans create a new set of traditions replete with sourdough, vegan pork floss and the Bay Area’s own unique sense of swagger. They, too, are making afternoon tea their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kopi Bar’s \u003c/em>Bridgerton \u003cem>high tea series will run every Saturday through Feb. 28, plus an additional date on March 1, with seatings at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-bridgerton-inspired-high-tea-at-kopi-bar-tickets-1979138513571\">\u003cem>Tickets\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> are limited. The cafe is located on the second floor of BAMPFA, at 2155 Center St. in Berkeley.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Little Moon Bakehouse’s Lunar New Year–themed afternoon tea will take place on Feb. 22, 11:30-1:30 p.m., at the SF Ferry Building (1 Ferry Building, San Francisco). \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://littlemoonbakehouse.com/products/afternoon-tea-in-sf-sun-dec-14-ferry-building-copy\">\u003cem>Tickets\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> are limited. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://littlemoonbakehouse.com/collections/afternoon-tea\">\u003cem>Future tea events\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> are scheduled to take place in SF Chinatown, the Sunset District, and San José.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://malayatearoom.com/\">\u003cem>Malaya Tea Room\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> has three seatings per day, Thu.-Sun., at 11 a.m., 1:15 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. It’s located at 920 Central Ave. in Alameda.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the kind of food that chef-owner Nora Haron likes to serve at Kopi Bar — a reflection of her background as a Singaporean immigrant of Indonesian-Indian descent. And while the spread might have surprised some Anglophile tea party enthusiasts, anyone who’s taken high tea at, say, one of Singapore’s grand hotels would find the mix of Eastern and Western flavors utterly familiar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, in countries like Singapore and Malaysia, where afternoon tea is a well-loved remnant of British colonization, it’s standard practice to combine the format and the aesthetics of English-style tea service with an infusion of Asian flavors. There, too, Haron likes to point out, guests get dressed up and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13963228/indonesian-high-tea-kopi-bar-sandai-walnut-creek\">sip their Earl Grey with their pinkies out\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986143\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986143\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_003-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Diners enjoying an afternoon tea spread inside a busy cafe.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_003-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_003-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_003-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_003-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests share tea and pastries while dressed in “Bridgerton”-inspired outfits during Kopi Bar’s themed high tea service on Jan. 31, 2026, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has its own rich tea party traditions, mostly nodding to the British style. But up until a couple of years ago, it was nearly impossible to find this kind of hybridized, Asian-inspired afternoon tea service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s no longer the case. In fact, we’re experiencing something of a golden age for Asian-style afternoon tea here in the Bay Area, as new pop-ups and standalone tea rooms crop up to satisfy the growing demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To wit: Kopi Bar’s aforementioned \u003cem>Bridgerton \u003c/em>tea series will take over a section of the cafe every Saturday at least through the end of February. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/littlemoonbakehouse/?hl=en\">Little Moon Bakehouse\u003c/a>, an Asian American vegan baking company in Oakland, hosts “reimagined” afternoon tea pop-ups at different venues around the Bay — packing 100 sweets lovers onto, say, the second floor of San Francisco’s Ferry Building for moon cakes and mini pork floss buns. Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pamanaplantas/?hl=en\">Pamana Plantas\u003c/a>, a plant store in Berkeley, has started throwing kamayan-inspired \u003ca href=\"https://pamanaplantas.com/pages/kamayan-tea-parties\">Filipino tea parties\u003c/a>, lining the tables with banana leaves and ube pastries. And while the afternoon tea program at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sonandgarden/?hl=en\">Son & Garden\u003c/a>, a lavishly flower-bedecked spot from the owners of the Farmhouse Thai restaurant empire, doesn’t have an explicit Asian focus, its \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/son-and-garden-san-francisco?select=WSZlwDtjjA9iLKVlv9XNng\">themed tea sets\u003c/a> often include delicacies like Japanese cherry blossom cookies and homemade samosas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986142\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986142\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of a diner's hand holding up an open-face avocado sandwich.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_001-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A guest at Kopi Bar holds a tea sandwich topped with avocado and herbs. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the OG of the genre, Alameda’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/malayatearoom/?hl=en\">Malaya Tea Room\u003c/a>, which has served elegant Malaysian afternoon tea sets, both in person and as a take-home kit, for nearly seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Haron says the tea parties have by far been her most popular events since she started hosting them last year. After she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13980465/kopi-bar-bampfa-cafe-berkeley-avocado-iced-coffee-kaya-toast\">moved Kopi Bar to Berkeley\u003c/a> from its original Walnut Creek location this past fall, she received a steady stream of DMs from old customers, pleading with her: “Please, please, will you do this again?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to such a groundswell of support, Haron says, laughing, “How can I not?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reclaiming a colonial history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of course, the British were the ones who brought the practice of a light afternoon meal with tea to Singapore and Malaysia during their long period of colonial rule — from 1819 to 1963, in the case of Singapore. The Raffles Hotel, probably the most iconic place to take tea in Singapore, started offering its afternoon tea service — complete with live orchestra — in 1918.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The new enterprise should be warmly encouraged by the public of both sexes who often find the hours between 4:30 and dinner time hang heavily,” an \u003ca href=\"https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19180109-1.2.26?qt=%22afternoon%20tea%22,%20%22raffles%20hotel%22&q=%22afternoon%20tea%22%20%22raffles%20hotel%22\">article in Singaporean newspaper \u003cem>The Straits Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> enthused at the time. Meanwhile, a popular restaurant called Emmerson’s Tiffin Room was advertising a more modest daily afternoon tea \u003ca href=\"https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singfreepressb18980702-1.2.32.2?qt=%22afternoon%20tea%22,%20emmerson&q=%22afternoon%20tea%22%20%22emmerson%27s%22\">as early as 1898\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986151\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986151\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_031-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in an elegant dark blue dress with matching floral hat.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_031-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_031-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_031-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_031-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Lee, a guest at Kopi Bar’s “Bridgerton”-themed high tea, poses in the stairwell at BAMPFA. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These initial offerings were mostly geared toward Singapore’s British residents, as well as wealthy travelers visiting from Europe. But the custom of taking afternoon tea was eventually taken up by locals as well — and persisted long after the British left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local expressions of the tradition began as early as the 1960s, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kfseetoh/?hl=en\">KF Seetoh\u003c/a>, probably the foremost street food expert in Singapore. Cafes began selling kaya toast and local coffee in the afternoon; curry puffs and pandan cakes also first appeared around this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These days at Raffles, you’ll find Indian tiffin meals \u003cem>and\u003c/em> tiered trays of high tea offerings, [everything] from the usual British fare to even \u003ca href=\"https://ccs.city/en/chinese-cultural-club/chinese-culinary/nyonya-cake\">Nyonya cakes\u003c/a>,” Seetoh says. “The evolution [can be] credited to finding an identity true to the mishmash of cultures in Singapore — the best of everyone’s kitchens and grandmas’ recipes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar story played out in Malaysia. For Malaya Tea Room owner Leena Lim, going out for tea was an occasional mother-daughter treat she remembers enjoying all through her childhood. Every couple of months, her mother would bring her to afternoon tea at the Shangri-La Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, where she’d marvel at all of the fancy cakes and finger sandwiches.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It was such an intimate, beautiful experience,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, in the ’80s and ’90s, most of the upscale hotel afternoon tea places in Malaysia still served food that was overwhelmingly British. At most, Lim recalls, maybe one item — say, a curry puff — would nod toward the local food culture. Because afternoon tea at the big hotels was “fancy” and expensive, Lim says even locals \u003cem>wanted\u003c/em> the food to be authentically British. Why would anyone pay so much to eat a Malaysian snack they could buy down the street for just a few ringgits?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lim estimates it’s only in the last 10 years or so that even the fanciest British-style tea rooms in Malaysia and Singapore have started leaning more into local flavors, adding sambals and curries and kuehs (assorted bite-size treats made with glutinous rice) into the mix with the scones and cucumber sandwiches that people still expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lim opened Malaya Tea Room in 2019, on a quiet stretch of Central Avenue in Alameda, she wanted it to be more of a hybrid. At the time, she didn’t know of any other businesses that were throwing Asian–inspired afternoon tea parties. Beloved local institutions like Lovejoy’s more or less replicate the British traditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2020/9/14/21436496/malaya-tea-room-afternoon-tea-takeout-box-kaya-jam-rendang-alameda\">Lim wanted to do both\u003c/a>. She planned to do the British stuff just as well as, or maybe even better than, the purely Anglophilic places — to, for instance, be one of the only places that make their clotted cream from scratch. But she also wanted to introduce customers to elegant, afternoon tea versions of some of her favorite Malaysian street snacks — in other words, to serve food that actually tastes \u003cem>good\u003c/em>. (She’d grown to find the British standards to be quite bland and boring.) Her menu included one finger sandwich that’s based on kaya toast, another that combines pork floss with a homemade basil spread, and yet another that features bakkwa (Malaysian pork jerky).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986561\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_039-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three-tiered cake stand with an array of cakes, pastries and finger sandwiches.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_039-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_039-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_039-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_039-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">British-style scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam sit alongside curried potato canapés on gluten-free crackers during afternoon tea at Malaya Tea Room in Alameda on Feb. 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When my family arrived at Malaya on a recent Sunday, the atmosphere inside the cozy tea room was languid and vaguely tropical — lush greenery sprawled in every direction; a ceiling fan spun lazily up above. Nostalgic knickknacks (antique Chinese vases, an abacus, an old Hup Seng cracker tin) decorated the display cabinets. On the table was a little bell to ring when you were ready for your server to come take your order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sandwiches we loved best included the curry chicken, made with coconut milk and a secret spice blend, and a sardine-and-cucumber number that Lim makes by doctoring the canned sardines in tomato sauce that you can buy at Asian grocers. On the sweets side, we enjoyed an airy-light pandan chiffon cake that wasn’t \u003cem>too \u003c/em>sweet — the ultimate compliment for an Asian dessert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the egg salad sandwich, which we ordered off the British side of the menu, was uncommonly good — lush with Kewpie mayonnaise and served on fluffy milk bread. It tasted exactly like the ones you get at 7-Eleven in Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lim says that’s exactly what she was going for: a familiar flavor that reminds you of childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986559\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_034-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian woman poses in front of a tiered cake stand with pastries and sandwiches.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_034-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_034-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_034-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_034-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leena Lim, owner of Malaya Tea Room, sits behind a table set for afternoon tea. The tea room opened in Alameda in 2019 and has become a destination for specialty tea service in the East Bay. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her business has had its ups and downs over the past seven years, especially with the pandemic hitting just months after it opened. But she’s developed a loyal customer base, and people do seem to better understand Malaya’s afternoon tea offerings now than they did in the shop’s early days. Part of that, she says, just has to do with how much more popular Asian food is these days — how there’s now a cultural cachet to being the sort of person who understands pandan and ube: “Otherwise, it’s like who are you? Do you even live here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helps that afternoon tea is the ultimate Instagram-friendly meal. Plus, Lim says, “people love dressing up,” and going out for tea provides a rare opportunity to do that. Every year, she has a big group that comes in cosplaying as anime characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During our visit, we spotted three elderly women enjoying a quiet conversation, a table of Gen Z Taiwanese ladies chattering happily in Mandarin, and a group of white otaku having an intense debate about \u003cem>Dragon Ball Z\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I even get groups of men who come in by themselves,” Lim says. “I think that’s awesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tea with a twist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bakeries and cafes that offer Asian-style afternoon tea in the Bay Area all have their own charm — and their own little twists on the genre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little Moon Bakehouse owner Annie Wang says her pop-ups are a natural extension of the fact that she started baking bread for the first time in 2024, adding a variety of Chinese bakery–style buns to her repertoire of plant-based cookies and mooncakes. Unlike Wang’s other baked goods, the breads don’t have long enough of a shelf life to ship nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986606\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/LITTLE-MOON-BAKEHOUSE-TEA-PARTY-2025-136-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/LITTLE-MOON-BAKEHOUSE-TEA-PARTY-2025-136-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/LITTLE-MOON-BAKEHOUSE-TEA-PARTY-2025-136-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/LITTLE-MOON-BAKEHOUSE-TEA-PARTY-2025-136-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/LITTLE-MOON-BAKEHOUSE-TEA-PARTY-2025-136-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little Moon Bakehouse owner Annie Wang (standing) mingles with guests at her afternoon tea pop-up at the San Francisco Ferry Building on Dec. 14, 2025. Featured items included plant-based mooncakes and mini pork floss buns. \u003ccite>(Phil Stockbridge/SF Event Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I realized that this would be great for an experience,” she says. She started renting out venues across the Bay Area to host one-day afternoon tea pop-ups, filling up three-tier cake stands with an equal split of sweet and savory treats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 22, she’ll host her second tea pop-up in the San Francisco Ferry Building — a \u003ca href=\"https://littlemoonbakehouse.com/products/afternoon-tea-in-sf-sun-dec-14-ferry-building-copy\">Lunar New Year–themed bash\u003c/a> for 100 guests, seated at long tables that stretch the length of the festive second-floor Grand Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The menu will include miniature pork floss buns, garlic butter buns, and \u003ca href=\"https://littlemoonbakehouse.com/products/preorder-soy-sauce-chocolate-citrus-cookie-sandwich-heydoh-x-little-moon-bakehouse\">citrus zest sugar cookies\u003c/a> filled with soy sauce–spiked white chocolate (that one is a collaboration with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/heydoh.co/\">Heydoh\u003c/a>, a Taiwanese American soy sauce brand). In the coming months, she’ll host \u003ca href=\"https://littlemoonbakehouse.com/collections/afternoon-tea\">additional pop-ups\u003c/a> in SF Chinatown, the Sunset District and San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986562\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986562\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_042-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Tea kettles, sugar bowls and metal canisters of loose-leaf tea on a wooden credenza.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_042-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_042-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_042-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_042-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loose-leaf teas line a wooden cabinet at Malaya Tea Room. The tea room serves a wide selection of teas in a space filled with nostalgic antique furnishings. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Jai Kandayah, the owner of Pleasanton’s recently closed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/curryleavesbistro/?hl=en\">Curry Leaves Bistro\u003c/a>, says he never \u003cem>intended \u003c/em>to serve afternoon tea at his restaurant. He, too, grew up taking afternoon tea in Malaysia, but not the kind served at fancy hotels, which wasn’t accessible for working-class people. For the majority of Malaysians, afternoon tea — or high tea — was more of a home ritual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(In Kandayah’s experience, Malaysians are more likely to talk about “high tea” than afternoon tea, referring to a heartier meal eaten later in the afternoon, at perhaps 4 or 5 p.m. after they get home from work — much more practical for working-class folks who can’t leave their jobs to eat cakes for an hour at 2 in the afternoon.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These meals always featured local flavors, Kandayah recalls. “I remember my mom would make a big pot of tea in the afternoon and then usually a savory snack — banana fritters, fried yucca, fried yams, fried taro,” he says. Sometimes the bread man would come around, and they’d buy a loaf and dip the bread in the curry that was left over from lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local high tea buffets he remembers frequenting as a young man similarly skewed toward Malaysian flavors. Many of them would even serve fried noodles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But again, Kandayah never had a high tea menu at Curry Leaves Bistro. Instead, regular customers — all of them older Malaysian immigrants — would knock on his door on Friday or Saturday afternoons, when the restaurant was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would call and say, ‘Hey, there are eight of us coming in at 4 o’clock after our golf game. Can you prepare some tea and roti, and a plate of noodles?’” Kandayah says. “And we would do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curry Leaves Bistro wound up closing this past fall after the landlord increased the rent, but Kandayah has already scouted out a new location in the East Bay and hopes to reopen later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, he says, afternoon tea on the restaurant’s backyard patio is going to come officially baked into the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A celebration of immigration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Kopi Bar has leaned into the cosplay of it all. In addition to her \u003cem>Bridgerton\u003c/em> series, Haron has also hosted Bollywood- and \u003cem>Arabian Nights\u003c/em>–themed afternoon teas, and encourages guests to come dressed up to reflect the theme. People come for Haron’s stellar baked goods, sure. But they also come because the tea parties are joyful and extravagant — an all-out happening, as they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for Haron, in the current political climate — while masked federal agents whisk soccer moms and five-year-old kids away to far-off detention centers — her tea parties aren’t just some frivolous, let-them-eat-cake moments to cosplay as British aristocrats. They’re important rituals that allow immigrants like her to come together and celebrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986148\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_019-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in glasses poses inside a cafe.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_019-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_019-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_019-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GOLDENAGEOFASIANSTYLEHIGH-TEA_GH_019-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Nora Haron, owner of Kopi Bar and Bakery, poses in her cafe on the second floor of BAMPFA. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This idea of ‘illegal’ immigrants being criminals — that’s obnoxious. We’re doing something for the community. You know, we’re bringing people together. We’re creating jobs,” she says. “So it’s wonderful to be able to support one another this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, she says, food is intertwined with the immigration process. And traditions like afternoon tea are a vital way for immigrants to maintain their cultural identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Singapore and Malaysia, the history of afternoon tea followed the same path as so many other things in Southeast Asia: The colonizers brought it, but locals improved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13986547\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GoldenAgeofAsianStyleHigh-Tea_GH_020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up on a pandan pastry, a cup of tea and a menu for a special high tea event.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GoldenAgeofAsianStyleHigh-Tea_GH_020_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GoldenAgeofAsianStyleHigh-Tea_GH_020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GoldenAgeofAsianStyleHigh-Tea_GH_020_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/013126GoldenAgeofAsianStyleHigh-Tea_GH_020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pandan and coconut pastry swirl sits next to Kopi Bar’s “Bridgerton”-inspired high tea menu. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the food writer Seetoh puts it, “You can still spend over a hundred bucks for the little pinky high teas at posh hotels flavored with affluence, but the majority, even the well-heeled, prefer a kueh salat, curry puff or ang ku kueh at local cafes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels more like a Singapore story,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it goes here in the diaspora, as Asian Americans create a new set of traditions replete with sourdough, vegan pork floss and the Bay Area’s own unique sense of swagger. 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