We’ve been away from home for four weeks now, and the wife and I were in the mood for a simple Japanese meal, such as chazuke (rice with tea) with a little bit of okazu (animal and/or vegetable protein) and tsukemono (pickled/salted vegetables).
You may recall we belong to the Marukai Wholesale Club in Honolulu. A friend who lives in Silicon Valley told the wife during our last trip that there was a Marukai Market in Cupertino, even spotting it on a map for us.
We had just enough time yesterday to get some stuff there, then drive over to UCSF Medical Center for the wife’s daily radiation zap session. As the Honolulu Marukai requires a membership card (which we have), we made sure I had it in my wallet when headed over to Cupertino this morning.
We needn’t have worried. They don’t require a card here.
We bought a bunch of stuff with strange-sounding names, but basically it was pickled vegetables that ranged from sweet to salty to spicy. Plus some chicken karaage (deep-fried), and some fish tempura (fish patties) from Hilo, Hawaii, my hometown.
And guess what? They had bags of Zippy’s chili.
It was a good dinner last night – a slurp-n-crunch meal.
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