Japanese couple Kathy and Yasushi Ueyama officially opened their second location of Shoki Ramen House on R and 12th streets May 3. The new location has an outdoor patio and enclosed parking and can hold roughly twice as many customers as the 24th Street location. The menu will remain the same at the new location providing a variety of made-from-scratch ramen, including shuyo, shio and tan tan men spicy ramen. Yasushi has 20 years of cooking and restaurant experience under his belt. Born and raised in Japan, he owned four restaurants during the time the couple lived in Kobe, Kathy Ueyama said. According to Kathy Ueyama, the couple moved back to Sacramento in 2001, and though Yasushi con

An event so big that it’s in the phone book? Believe it. The Japanese Food and Cultural Bazaar has been up and running for 64 years. Those three score and four years have provided plenty of time for great recipes to be shared through the generations and are now made available for your tasting pleasure this weekend from noon - 9 p.m. at the Sacramento Buddhist Church, at 2401 Riverside Blvd. Steve Kawano has been involved in the event for the last 13 years and now acts as chairman. Since his youth he has had the opportunity to sample the great variety of food available at the bazaar and confessed that the “teriyaki beef sandwich is to die for.” What began as Japanese-Americans gathering