Celebrate Sushi Yorimichi Anniversary!!
Plus: Kearny High Alumni Car Show Photos, In Search of Chinese Dumplings, and Fire Safety Town Hall
One of Linda Vista’s most popular businesses is celebrating its anniversary next week, and local residents are being asked to join in the celebration which will occur over three days. Sushi Yorimichi, located at 2405 Ulric Street, first opened back in 2021, while everyone was just coming back out after the pandemic. We published an article at the time about the new business. Sushi Yorimichi has since gone on to establish a great reputation for tasty sushi as well as many other dishes, several of which feature an Asian fusion touch.
We hope to see many of our readers at Sushi Yorimichi taking advantage of their specials on at least one of the celebratory days!
Check out the below flyer for anniversary celebration details.
In honor of Sushi Yorimichi’s anniversary, the Linda Vista Update offers this haiku:
California roll.
Sometimes the Crunchy. Always
with Sapporo beer.
Kearny High Alumni Association Car Show
Local residents wishing to enter a time machine and go back to a different era—back to a time when gas was just twenty nine cents a gallon, V-8 engines ruled the highways, and the Beach Boys were singing about a “little Deuce Coupe”—merely had to go the 5th annual Kearny High Alumni Association Car Show this past Saturday. The Car Show was held in the Kearny High School parking lot. Plenty of fast, bitchin’ looking, gas guzzling cars were on display. Here is a snapshot look at some of those cars.
Searching for Dumplings: The Journey and the Destination
Hall of Fame baseball player and life philosopher Yogi Berra once profoundly said, “If you don’t know where you are going, you might end up some place else.” That certainly turned out to be the case recently when we went on a confusing quest to find the perfect Chinese dumpling.
One Saturday some time ago we went to the Civita Farmers Market to see what they had in terms of vendors that perhaps we needed at the Love, Linda Vista Farmers Market. Among the many vendors was a place called House of Bao that served steamed buns and dumplings of various kinds. Since we do not eat meat, we were happy to find they had vegetable buns and a couple of shrimp dumplings including shumai and har gow. We ordered some of each and they were excellent. I wondered at the time if we could get them to our farmers market. Fast forward to the Linda Vista Multlicultural Fair and Parade and I noticed on the program that House of Bao was there as well. Since we were busy manning the LV Update booth, I sent our Carnivore Sidekick there to get me some dumplings. The shrimp was delicious, and I again wondered if they would consider coming to our market.
Recently, I found myself yearning for dumplings, so we decided to go right to the horse’s mouth, so to speak, to the House of Bao “restaurant” which I had seen while searching the internet for dumplings. Strangely, there were two listings for House of Bao. We plugged in the navigation and headed to House of Bao on Chesapeake Street off Kearny Villa Road. After finding ourselves lost in a sea of warehouses, we came to the address to find a closed garage-type door with no marking for the House of Bao. Again, we went to our trusty internet and learned that House of Bao had a listing for Convoy Ct. (listing for both places showed 10:00 am to 5:00 pm opening hours). By now, lunch time was growing further in the rear, and our stomachs started grumbling from hunger, so we navigated to Convoy Ct. Much to our dismay, we were again met with clusters of warehouses, with House of Bao nowhere in sight. Frustrated, I found a phone number and called it hoping someone would finally tell me the secret location for the House of Bao. What I learned is that there is no physical House of Bao anywhere! The location you get when you search is a warehouse (which we had already determined). House of Bao is only found at Farmers Markets such as PB, Civita, San Marcos, and festivals.
I pleaded with the person to whom I was speaking to please consider coming to the Linda Vista Farmers Market. When he said he thought there would not be enough business, I told him the market has been going strong for a year and better than ever, and he should reconsider. He promised he would. He also apologized for the misleading information on the internet about their company location. I told him “No problem. I am now much more knowledgeable about San Diego’s geographic layout, especially the industrial areas in Kearny Mesa.”
Since by now, with all the running around, we were several hours past our normal lunch, so we looked around and noted we were close to Ranch 99 Market (the large Asian grocery store) on Clairemont Mesa Drive, and figured they must have bao and dumplings, right? So, in we went and found the counter for the prepared food. Everything looked delicious, and after figuring out where the line started and their system for ordering we finally reached the front of the line and asked if they had bao and dumplings. We were pointed to the dim sum section and found they only had steamed buns with meat and veggies, no vegetables alone. Disappointing. They did have steamed shrimp rolls and shumai, so we ordered those. Unfortunately, something was lost in the translation (buy 2 get 1 free) that when we reached the checkout, I knew that we were going to be eating what I ordered for much more than one meal judging by the cost.
We were so hungry; we sat down and opened the boxes and chowed down on a few of the dumplings and rolls. They were either very good, or we were so hungry we wouldn’t have noticed if they weren’t. As we were eating, I thought of a quote I once heard from the author Lewis Carroll, who said “If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.” After my experience, I figured it might now be appropriate to amend that quote to read “If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which dumpling you end up eating.”
As I thought, there was enough food for two more meals. A really good deal!
So, if you are ever at a farmers market and see a House of Bao vendor booth, please tell them to consider coming to the Linda Vista Farmers Market and we will see that they sell a lot of dumplings. I think you will like them as much as we do, and it would be nice to know where they would be every Thursday when the urge for dumplings hits me.
Fire Safety Town Hall Offers Important Info
The good news for San Diegans is that our recent rainy season has reduced the chances of wildfire. The bad news is that the increased amount of vegetation resulting from the rain will increase the possibility of wildfire once the weather turns warmer and vegetation becomes dry. And as anyone who was here in the San Diego area during the big fires that occurred in 2003 and 2007 knows, the threat of wildfire continues to loom large as a major concern for all of San Diego county.
This major concern was behind last night’s Fire Safety Town Hall hosted by District 7 Councilmember Raul Campillo. The Town Hall, held at the Tierrasanta Recreation Center, was designed to educate local residents, especially those living in the canyon laden Tierrasanta area, about various wildfire related safety issues. Representatives from the City’s Fire-Rescue department as well as representatives from the Parks and Recreation Center were present to provide expert advice. The Town Hall served as an enlightening forum for learning about different aspects of fire safety. Some of these aspects included the following:
--The concept of residences’ “defensible space” which is defined as the buffer we create between a building on property and the grass, trees, shrubs, or any wildland area that surround it. This space is needed to stop or slow the fire. It is needed to protect the home from igniting due to direct flame or radiant heat. Defensive space is made up of two zones around a home: Zone 1 consists of an area 0 to 35 feet around your house (typically a backyard); Zone 2 extends 35 to 100 feet beyond your house (natural and native vegetation).
--If you are concerned about proper brush management in Zone 2 defensible space (i.e., accumulation of combustible vegetation) that is beyond your backyard, you can call the City’s Fire-Rescue department “Brush Hotline” at 619-533-4444 to generate a complaint. Addressing your complaint may take up to two weeks. This Brush Hotline is run by the department’s Wildland Management and Enforcement office.
—When clearing a defensive space of excess vegetation, Brush Management does not remove all vegetation due to soil erosion concerns.
--According to recently enacted AB38 legislation, a house being sold that is located in an area designated as a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone must undergo and pass a Defensible Space inspection. This inspection is part of the real estate disclosure process. Detailed information about AB38 inspection requirements can be found here.
--Below is a map that identifies Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones (based on vegetation density, slope severity, and other relevant factors that contribute to fire severity) in the area around Linda Vista. You can see the entire San Diego map here.
-As emphasized by Councilmember Campillo, fire safety, to include not just wildfire prevention but also planning for evacuations, is a “collective responsibility” that involves a number of agencies, to include the Fire-Rescue Department, the SD Police Department, the Parks and Recreation department (which manages the Open Space Parks like Mission Trails Park which lie in Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones), as well as private entities such as SDG&E and local Homeowners Associations (which can manage irrigation and brush removal in many Zone 2 defensible spaces).
--Representatives from the SD Fire-Rescue department emphasized that much has been learned since the wildfires of 2003 and 2007 and that City agencies have vastly improved their contingency planning and inter-agency coordination/communication capabilities.
—Fire Department representatives pointed out the importance of knowing your neighbors so that residents can better help those in need of special help if an evacuation situation occurs.
—San Diegans can obtain their own Personal Wildland Fire Action Guide to help prepare for the possibility of a major fire by clicking here.
Though the Town Hall was mainly held to address the concerns of Tierrasanta residents, many of whom live near a canyon or Mission Trails Park and have previously had to evacuate their homes in past wildfires, the information discussed was also highly relevant to Linda Vista residents, especially those living near one of the nearby canyons. .
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