Uwajimaya Seattle
Sprawling Asian supermarket with a fish counter, food court, and imported goods from across the Pacific Rim.
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This guide to Uwajimaya in Seattle opens in 1928, with Fujimatsu Moriguchi frying fish cakes out of a truck bed for homesick loggers and fishermen near Tacoma, and naming his venture after the Japanese town where he learned the trade. It follows him through the government's 1942 internment of his family at Tule Lake, and his return to Seattle to rebuild the business on South Main Street with borrowed money. He kept frying the same fish cakes for a scattered community trying to remember what dinner used to taste like.
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