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Hit Filipino-Japanese pop-up Ox & Tiger scores a permanent home in S.F.
by San Francisco Chronicle
It has taken over 552 Jones St., formerly a location of Filipino restaurant Tselogs. Owners EJ Macayan and Hitomi Wada will be serving their playful marriage of Filipino and Japanese food, their respective heritages, for takeout only on weekends initially. They soft-opened last weekend and plan to open fully in late October with a tasting menu inside the intimate, counter-only space.
48 Pop-Ups To Know About Right Now:
San Francisco & Oakland
by Infatuation SF
The dishes at this pop-up draw on the chefs’ Filipino and Japanese cultures - so expect things like chicken karaage sandwiches, yakisoba pan, mentaiko pancit, and more.
Introducing the Best Restaurant Pop-Up in San Francisco: Ox & Tiger
by The Bold Italic
The restaurant’s unique Filipino and Japanese food mashup has been a draw in a pandemic when comfort food reigns
Osechi Bento Boxes Are the Most Luxurious Way to Ring in the New Year at Home
by Eater SF
[Those] looking for a more nonconventional spin on the tradition might consider Ox & Tiger, the SoMa-based Filipino-Japanese pop-up. Chefs EJ Macayan, who is Filipino, and his wife Hitomi Wada, who is Japanese, fuse their respective culinary traditions: the rich, high-acid flavors of Filipino cooking and the clean simplicity that Japanese food is known for.
From tonkatsu to lumpia, Peninsula pop-up marries Filipino and Japanese flavors
by Elena Kadvany, The Six Fifty
Ox & Tiger’s miki malabed is the kind of soup you turn to when you’re sick, hungover, bone tired or … deep in the throes of an unrelenting global pandemic.
Ox and Tiger: Rooted in History, Cooking for the Community
by Undscvrd
EJ Macayan and Hitomi Wada, the team behind Japanese-Filipino pop-up project Ox & Tiger, understand the value of knowing where you come from, turning knowledge from elders into useful solutions for the present.
