Last week, Table D1 at Home Eat raised the ghosts in at least four different languages, inspired by the ever-shifting landscape of downtown San Jose.
As I slithered into the gargantuan Chinese restaurant at Fourth and San Fernando, NVIDIA conference attendees surrounded me. All of them carried designer laptop backpacks and wore lanyards on lime green necklaces. At Table D1, I ordered an $11.75 Kung Pao Chicken Combo, made to order and fantastic.
Normally the flâneur who emerges to narrate this column remains in perpetual motion. That’s the point. In the style of the French fin de siècle era, he navigates the urban ruins and finds the overlapping points between history and everyday life. Not this time. Instead, I just sat there…