Really happy with the texture of the should at 165 degrees for 18 hours. Super fall apart tender but still has a bite. Strained the purge from the bag and added it to the sauce. I was hesitant to add all that liquid back in just to reduce it until I tasted it and man. Pork explosion
@Stephie Yeah I hear you. I bet it’s tasty in spite of its fusion-ness. Californians have been coastaling up all sorts of cuisines. Mexican food and pizza aren’t safe. Now German. What’s next?
@JourneymanGeek Nah, I think you have already discovered that. We can only go up from here, folks!
@Stephie he did clarify it's not meant to be literally German food, just a sort of German-inspired big picture, and stuff that'd go with German beers
> We are not pretending in any way to be A German restaurant. We are a California restaurant and beer hall who takes influence from Bavaria and Austria. None of our dishes are traditional German food!
> Yes. It is not german food. It is California food inspire by german beer gardens and intended to go with German beers.
does look pretty fun, maybe I'll try it sometime
It's probably going to be really absurdly crowded, though, good new restaurants here always are, downtown San Mateo is pretty busy (fairly pedestrian-friendly), and lots of people here will know his name, too.
@Stephie Yes ma’am. :) I have similar feelings about “Western” themed restaurants in Asia and the like. Also the great national guilty please / shame that is what America has done to Chinese cuisine.
@Stephie fair enough. I think I tend to care less about that kind of thing because I'm pretty happy to see nontraditional variations of traditional American food.
@Jefromi Yeah. Some people feel strongly about BBQ or pizza but once you venture out of those "untouchable" dishes I think our national cuisine (if you can even pretend there is such a thing) is a big melting pot of borrowed, improvised, and remixed dishes.
There's little of the codified, dogmatic French approach in US food. Apart from when we are cooking French food. Haha
Those are huge generalizations but I think there is a measurable cultural difference in the somewhere
