#eastside san jose

[badpoetryinc]

New shirts alert!

Link in the bio!

[wolfwatch01]

Cool Wolf…….. #coolwolf #wolf #wolves🐺 #wolves #wolfdog #wolfhybrid #lobo #lobosiberiano #lobosolitario #followｍe #sigueme (at Eastside, San Jose) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnOSM1oLM1f/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ar-tique-u-late]

This 3 oz cleansing makeup brush and body soap is inspired by O Fortuna from the opera Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. This 100% coconut oil (20% superfatted) soap has large bubbly lather that rinses clean. This soap is scented with grapefruit, rosemary, listea cubea, and tea tree essential oils. https://www.operasoapco.com/product-page/carmina-burana-o-fortuna (at Eastside, San Jose) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmzcecMP04B/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[albybastida]

#badpoet #Badpoetry #poet #poetry #badwriting #badwriters #emo #emopoetry #horror #horrorpoetry #noir #noirpoetry #sanjose #sanjosecalifornia #goth #gothic #eastside #🖤 (at Eastside, San Jose) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg8jNGWuDqi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[don-lichterman]

The Pandemic wasn't an obstacle for musician Mahlleh

The Pandemic wasn’t an obstacle for musician Mahlleh

Two years of Covid pushed her team go stronger Mahlleh played a drums for her band (Fadia Zeid) During the pandemic, Mahlleh and her musical group “Poetic Mogul” had a recording studio for upcoming artists. Samantha Arestegui (born on March 20, 1994), known professionally as Mahlleh, is a musician and producer. Born and raised in the eastside neighborhood of San Jose, Arestegui began music…

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[Image ID: Hết Sẩy Cali chefs Hieu, on the left, and DuyAn Le, on the right, pose for a portrait wearing festive áo dài to ring in the Lunar New Year. End ID.] 

Deep clean your home, settle your debts, and get your haircut. Lunar New Year is just around the corner. In Vietnamese culture, the holiday is known as Tết, and this year it falls on Feb. 1.

Here in the Bay Area, Tết provides no shortage of opportunities to participate in tradition and culture, but the holiday and its seasonal eats aren’t prescribed or stagnant. Diasporic Vietnamese communities have always been proficient at recreating nostalgic homeland flavors with local ingredients—incorporating, for instance, Mexican jalapeno as garnish for what we know as American-style phở. 

Now, nearly 50 years after the first wave of refugees arrived in the United States, Vietnamese Americans are still finding ways to augment the foods associated with Tết. In San Francisco, San Jose and beyond, young, 1.5- and second-generation Vietnamese chefs are using banana leaves instead of arrow leaves for rice cakes or lucky sticky rice dyed with red coloring in place of baby jackfruits. In doing so, pop-ups like Het Say Cali, Claws of Mantis and Bánh Chưng Collective pay homage to tradition while also helping to evolve Vietnamese American cuisine—and creating more inclusive, new communities along the way.

Hết Sẩy Cali, a colorful pop-up at the Rose Garden Farmers Market in San Jose, approaches Lunar New Year as just one part of its founders’ continued practice in honoring the craftsmanship of regional Vietnamese cuisine—always with plenty of verve and style. [...]

For a brief while the couple traveled across the Bay Area, until they noticed an aging generation of Vietnamese cooks retiring in their old neighborhood. The slow but steady decline of legacy restaurants inspired the couple to hunker down in San Jose and focus on making their own contribution to the “ESSJ Vietnamese” food scene... This holiday, they’re serving bánh tét thịt chiên, a pan-fried version of the southern Vietnamese steamed glutinous rice cake that’s most commonly filled with pork belly and mung beans. Even as Hết Sẩy references these familiar flavors, Hieu clarifies that he’s “not romanticizing the past either,” unlike older-generation cooks who tend to prefer the 1970s Saigon-centric style of Vietnamese food. [...]

When asked to describe Claws of Mantis’ cooking style, chef Kevin Trang echoes the founders of Hết Sẩy Cali: “Eastside San Jose Vietnamese food.” The Michelin-experienced chefs behind the buzzy pop-up restaurant started out selling takeout dinner sets during the first summer of the pandemic, with a menu that interprets memories from Trang’s childhood in the Vietnamese enclave. The pop-up’s approach to Tết is similarly nostalgic... “It was for Vietnamese people either missing their families for Tết,” Trang explains, “or people not necessarily knowing why we do the things we do.” [...]

Whether you’ve stayed up late making pots of bánh chưng or this is the first time you’ve heard of it, Bánh Chưng Collective welcomes you to their 10th annual workshop on Saturday, Jan. 29 via Zoom. 

The workshops began as a way for Diep Tran, the community organizer-turned-restauranter and now R&D chef at Red Boat Fish Sauce, to create her own New Year’s traditions. After coming out to her family, she didn’t feel as welcome at Tết gatherings... Fortunately, she was far from alone. Many of her queer friends had similar experiences with their families—they, too, were “people that also feel like they had to mute themselves when they go to these functions.” Tran’s informal bánh chưng parties helped them build a new sense of community. Together, they formed the Bánh Chưng Collective. [...]

Tran notes that it’s not merely a queer-friendly space, but instead a queer-centered one. She reflects on her own ostracization as a queer woman, and the ways that this collective has allowed her to reclaim her heritage, which she would like to extend to both LGBT and diasporic youth: “If you're young [and] you don't have a connection to culture, you’re not making a good bánh chưng. Somehow you think you're not ‘Vietnamese enough.’ I always start the class telling people to let go of those expectations. We're not here to perform ‘enough.’” [...]

At the heart of these three next-generation Tết offerings is a focus on education and community-building. The chefs behind pop-ups like Hết Sẩy Cali and Claws of Mantis scoff at the notion that “tradition” is rigid and uncompromising. Instead, they celebrate the new year on their own terms by educating customers who haven't had a chance to learn about their heritage with empathetic welcomes, starting with what’s on the plate.

“They get to engage in culture on their terms,” Bánh Chưng Collective’s Tran says of the Vietnamese Americans who attend her workshops. “You don't have to worry about what other generations have done. Culture belongs to you. It belongs to every generation.”

-- “Three New Ways to Celebrate Tết in the Bay Area” by Jacquelyn Tran for KQED, 28 Jan 2022

[theearthquakecatfish]

[hertl]

tbh he hasnt spent most of his adult life actually LIVING in san jose. he gets to live here as a rich dude and the practice facilities in south sj is probably what he uses as shitty reinforcement of his shitty ideas bc thats what all the well off people do. i doubt hes ever been to eastside and if he has its been to a kids school event bc he “feels sorry for the situations they were born into” or its contractually needed for his paycheck. anyways lets all suckerpunch couture

you’re right, he probably spends his time at santana row and in the richer areas but he’s been involved in the community. i don’t think he was only doing those things bc he was contractually obligated but somehow that makes it worse? like you’d hope he would pick something up from it. i used to live in east sj and there’s obv a big wealth divide but you’d really have to go out of your way to never be exposed to any of the community struggles after being here as long as he has.

[foreverthesoniag]

📖✨This!! To end the week here is a gentle and powerful reminder by @yosirey on #DACA for @informed_immigrant ‘s “Note to Self during uncertainty” video series. Go watch the full clip on @informed_immigrant ‘s page. Yosimar Reyes is a nationally-acclaimed Poet and Public Speaker. Born in Guerrero, Mexico, and raised in Eastside San Jose, Reyes explores the themes of migration and sexuality in his work. The Advocate named Reyes one of "13 LGBT Latinos Changing the World" and Remezcla included Reyes on their list of "10 Up And Coming Latinx Poets You Need To Know." For more resources visit www.informedimmigrant.com or go to @informed_immigrant ‘s Bio and click the link. #latinx #qtpoc #queer #migrant #migration #poet (at San Jose, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_8hEeVFgKI/?igshid=yp2kwsniz9mz

[oliviayrungaray]

[wolfwatch01]

Don’t know what my cat is doing?🤔 #cat #feline #felinos #cats #catsofinstagram #wolf #wolves #lobos #perrolobo #followmeplease #sigueme (at Eastside, San Jose) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYXWVmtPmLR/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ar-tique-u-late]

This 4 oz gently exfoliating avocado oil and mango butter soap is inspired by Tanz, an instrumental dance from the opera Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. This bright, fresh, cleansing soap is moderately bubbly with a creamy lather. This soap is scented with lemon, grapefruit, and clary sage essential oils. https://www.operasoapco.com/product-page/carmina-burana-tanz (at Eastside, San Jose) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmpK138P0S0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[albybastida]

#badpoet #Badpoetry #poet #poetry #badwriting #badwriters #emo #emopoetry #horror #horrorpoetry #noir #noirpoetry #sanjose #sanjosecalifornia #bayareapoet #bayarea #eastside #🖤 (at Eastside, San Jose) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg56rgEOOSr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[contentmag]

Cayce Hill

Cayce Hill’s foodie passport is well traveled—as is she. From Texas to Mexico, Tokyo to New York City, and finally San Jose, Cayce’s passion for people, health, and food has been the driving force in her personal and professional life. She is now the executive director at Veggielution, a six-acre urban farm in East San Jose that strives to make organic food more accessible to the surrounding…

[whiterain4-blog]

#itoldyoumang #alapinga (at Eastside, San Jose) https://www.instagram.com/p/CX9eOPfPRno/?utm_medium=tumblr

[onemagi]

4 generations of family. That’s called a blessing of love. ❤️❤️❤️ #mommanem (at Eastside, San Jose) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRn33qzHiDC/?utm_medium=tumblr