{"id":474,"date":"2006-06-02T20:44:33","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T20:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2006-06-02T20:44:33","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T20:44:33","slug":"katanaya_is_sorta_back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/katanaya_is_sorta_back\/","title":{"rendered":"Katana-Ya is (sorta) Back!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, near UCSF, there was a kick-ass ramen shop called Katana-Ya.  They made lots of ramen and had some other kinds of food (non ramen).<br \/>\nNow, a new Katana-Ya has opened up in Downtown San Francisco on Geary, near Mason.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/katanaya1.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/katanaya1.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/katanaya1-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The new Katana-Ya on Geary Street<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/katanaya2.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/katanaya2.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/katanaya2-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>This is the banner you look for.  It says &#8220;ra-men&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/katanaya3.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/katanaya3.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/katanaya3-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The restaurant is dominated by the sushi bar&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nThis new incarnation of Katana-Ya is a sushi bar\/restaurant that happens to serve ramen, instead of the other way around, like the old place.  I ordered miso cha-siu ramen and hoped for the best.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/katanayaramen.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/katanayaramen.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/katanayaramen-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Mi-so ra-men. Will it be &#8220;yum?&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nThe broth was flavorful, the cha-siu had a bit of fat on it and was tender (but not as fall-apart as Santa Ramen&#8217;s stewed pork) and the noodles were the thick kind, nice and hearty!  And as an added bonus, it&#8217;s actually run by Japanese AND a couple of the people running the place worked at the old place!<br \/>\nIn short, I like!<br \/>\nKatana-Ya<br \/>\n430 Geary Boulevard (at Mason)<br \/>\nSF CA<br \/>\nOpen for dinner, 1700-0200 every night!<br \/>\nThis is a LOT closer than Santa Ramen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, near UCSF, there was a kick-ass ramen shop called Katana-Ya. They made lots of ramen and had some other kinds of food (non ramen). Now, a new Katana-Ya has opened up in Downtown San Francisco on Geary, near Mason. The new Katana-Ya on Geary Street This is the banner you look &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/katanaya_is_sorta_back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Katana-Ya is (sorta) Back!!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steamy-ramen-goodness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-7E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}