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🇺🇸 Oakland
3 places across Parts Unknown & No Reservations
Every Place Bourdain Visited in Oakland
3 placesMiss Ollie's
Washington Street
Tony ate here with Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party. They ate skillet-fried chicken, rice and peas, greens
Juhu Beach Club
Telegraph Ave
Tony met again with John Birdsall, author, to have Indian food. Chef Preeti Mistry described the dishes to them and discussed Indian food in America. They ate Manchurian cauliflower which Preeti described as “vegetable candy”, bhel puri (puffed-rice dish), chili paneer, yogurt-marinated chicken curry served on rice, Indian Scotch egg (the Scotch egg was invented in India).
Tamales Mi Lupitas
Foothill Bl
Tony had chicharron, cabeza, and chorizo tacos.
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