Here's how I know we've come a long way from teriyaki chicken bowls: A new restaurant inside Mitsuwa Marketplace called Gyutan Tsukasa is a beef tongue specialist.
The original Gyutan Tsukasa hails from Sendai, Japan and serves the BBQ'd meat with barley rice, ox tail soup, and pickles.
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The stall, which I wrote a preview post a few months ago, replaces The Loft and joins Weekly favorite Santoka Ramen and Miyabi-Tei.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.