Oken - Oakland

Grilled Romano Beans

oyster sauce, chili oil, crispy garlic, lemon

Triple Cooked Crispy Potatoes

curry salt, curry mayo, ketchup

Maitake Tempura

crispy mushroom, truffle crème fraîche

Kakuni

homemade bao

Hwe Dup Bap

salmon roe, ocean trout, mixed lettuces, shiso, perilla, koshihikari rice, sesame oil, nori

Wagyu Kalbi Ssam

Ocean Trout

jimmy nardellos

Chocolate Cake

chantilly cream, kinako, dehydrated cake crumbs

Melon

granita, 4 kinds of melon

Highlights:

All the apps, the ssam, and the chocolate cake. Hwe was fine but a bit on the salty side, trout was decent but merely that. Melon desert was good but I’m not really a melon guy.

Really loved the beans. Kakuni was maybe the best I’ve had; they went pretty easy on the sugar (thankfully) and managed to get it extremely tender without leaving enormous blobs of fat on it. Chocolate cake was magical.

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