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by Greg TaniguchiJanuary 18, 2017April 28, 2020

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Headquarters: Gardena, CA
Founded: 1965
Number of locations in SoCal: 5
Locations (link to Google Places/Maps): Gardena, Cupertino, Little Tokyo LA, Gardena (pictured), San Diego, West LA.
Operating Hours: 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, Food Court: 11am to 8:30 pm.
Notes: I’ve long relied on Marukai to come through with Hawaiian food products like lau lau (pork, chicken, etc), and I’m sure I account for one of the bigger buyers of that product. It’s also the reason why I’ve noticed that Keoki’s lau lau go from roughtly $11 for a 3-pack to the Tokyo Central price of $16+ ($13.49 at other online stores). So, if they’re both the same company, why the price increase? Would this product be cheaper at Marukai?
Website: www.marukai.com
Online Store: www.tokyocentral.com
Social: none

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A 3rd/4th (sansei/yonsei) generation Japanese American, Greg Taniguchi was born in Denver, Cowarado. This MOFO then spent the last ten years in the SF Bay Area and a decade and a half in Los Angeles, California, feeding his liver and eating raw liver (rebasashi).

Greg has an extensive career in branding, the web, the creative field, and owning a business, which led to the start of Skunk2 and working with Chevron, in dotcom, to ad agencies. Those experiences contributed immensely to the building/refining of Gibson, Axial, and the Race Technologies: Brembo Performance, Brembo Racing, and Sabelt brands.

In the last half-decade, he launched Oishii-Desu.com, opened a restaurant pop-up, helped raise several thousand and gave away $13K of food to the people of NYC (awarded $5k from GoFundMe), created one of the fastest-growing automotive e-commerce platforms, and is currently in the works on a manuscript about American food culture.