Wonderful Delicious “Gochiso” Food at Bazaar, Sunday, June 2

We are offering wonderful food through our Japanese Cultural Bazaar, with competitive pricing. Gochiso is Japanese for delicious. After eating, many of us say “gochisosama deshita,” to express how delicious the food was.

Tips for Payment. Most booths accept cash or tickets. You can buy tickets for your purchases at the Ticket Booth and ahead. They take, paying by cash or credit card.

Food Booths on Parking Lot Level

Teriyaki Chicken Dinner (due to supply issues, we only have quarter chicken dark meat): Chicken, rice, pickled cabbage. Our teriyaki sauce has been perfected over the decades.

(V) Tofu Salad. Cubed tofu with crisp vegetables and a light sauce..

Tacos. Made with loving kindness from a family with roots in the Japanese-Mexican community. Totrillas are lightly fried and include meat or vegetable filling (see below) with lettuce and and a mexican cheese mix.

  • Angie’s Tacos. Seasoned ground beef. Delicious! (Not to spicy — you add the salsa and hot salsa to taste.)

  • (V) Mako’s Tacos. Vegetarian filling with seasoned tofu and veggies. Also delicious, people often buy one pf Angie’s and one of Mako’s tacos.

Sushi. Handmade by the Buddhist Women;s Association specifically for our Bazaar. Each order includes four makizushi (sushi rolled in nori) and three Inari (rice wrapped in fried tofu or age). Because we season the rice in sweet vinegar, the sushi is delicious.

Beer Garden. Must be 21 to enter. We offer craft beer and sake.

Snack Bar. Come for a wide variety of drinks, bagged snacks, saved ice, kintoki snow, and more.

Food Booths on the Top Floor of the Annex Hall

Old School Chow Mein. We prepare our chow mein with fresh noodles pan-fried the day of the Bazaar, the old-school way our Temple members like it. The broth or sauce is a nostalgic blend of pork and vegetables. (Chow mein and eating Chinese food, or Chinameshi, is part of Japanese-American culture.)

Bakery. We sell several special Japanese desserts here along with American cake, pie, and cookies. These sell out early: Strawberry Mochi and Daifuku. Fresh strawberries are wrapped in mochi, made for us on site. Similarly, daifuku is a homemade style confection, made with mochi with a sweetened red bean (an, from azuki beans) for the filling. Here is where you can also find Chashu Bao, round yeasted dough filled with delicious cooked pork.

Why Do We Offer Tacos and Chinese Food Items at a Japances Cultural Bazaar?

Well, it seems natural to us. Here are three reasons:

Frist, we’re in San Diego, and tacos are ubiquitous and delicious. Second, several of our members grew up in Mexico speaking Spanish and Japanese, with English as their third language. Third, the Japanese-American community has a special regard for Chinese food, and a fondness for old-school Chinese dishes.

And it’s our history. We have done tacos and chow mein at our Bazaar for close to half of our 98 years.

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