A Chinese-German Restaurant in the Central Valley
Noah's Hof Brau has been serving up sauerkraut with beef and broccoli for nearly 60 years.
REMEMBER TO STOCK UP ON SAZON AND ADOBO!
Yes! We’re still selling my Sazon and Adobo seasonings! If you purchase them using this link, I’ll be able to accumulate an additional 10% per unit. Yay me! And yay you. I think.
We’re still the only sazon on the market that uses wild achiote from Puerto Rico. Our achiote can be traced back to one farmer in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico.
Achiote has been used in Puerto Rico since pre-contact. There are documented accounts of the Taino (now a term being challenged because it is said that No 16th-century Spanish documents use this word to refer to the tribal affiliation or ethnicity of the natives of the Greater Antilles.) using it for cooking as well as painting their faces. This is because the Taino are said to have reached the island of Boriken (Borinquen/Boriquén) by traveling the waters from South America, where achiote is also used in cooking.
Achiote gives most of Puerto Rican cuisine its inviting orange hue. Much like its used in the commercial food industry for the orange color of cheddar cheese. The flavor isn’t very strong, a subtle floral mustiness just kind of lingers in the background. Anyone who’s ever made achiote oil knows the experience of inhaling in that perfume when the achiote seeds hit the hot oil when we’re preparing it for pasteles.
Here is a montage of how to use the seasoning blends.
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Have you ever been to a hof brau? Have you ever been to one that served both hofbrau food and Chinese food?
I’ve written about hofbraus several times. Once in 2017 for Food & Wine. And again in 2021 for Resy. Several of the hofbraus I patronized or used for research during my 2017 tour are now closed! I had to start a new anew.