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Milestone · Saturday

Dumplings, Egypt, sukiyaki counter

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Aug 1, 2026
92° / 58°·Sunny

The day

10:00 AM
Slow morning at home, then leave Newark
Newark
Drive·32 min·20.7 mi
10:35 AM
Early lunch — xiao long bao, greens, noodles at Din Tai Fung
Westfield Valley Fair, Santa Clara · 2 guests
Dairy-free · Dumplings, noodles and greens are dairy-free across the board — nothing to send back.
Parking · Winchester garage at Valley Fair, free. Park once and stay for lunch and JINS.
Doors open 9:30, so a 10:35 table means no line at all. Kept light on purpose — dinner is a multi-course tasting.
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Walk·5 min
11:45 AM
JINS glasses tune-up, then an unhurried browse at Westfield Valley Fair
Santa Clara
Same building as lunch — no second parking hunt, and no clock on the browse.
Drive·7 min·2.0 mi
1:45 PM
The largest Egyptian collection in western North America at Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
1660 Park Ave, San Jose
Open till 6, $9 a head, no booking needed. Self-paced and quiet — stay two hours or forty minutes. Skip the outdoor Peace Garden; it will be 92°F.
Drive·12 min·6.6 mi
4:00 PM
Signature Sukiyaki Tasting at the counter at Wagyu Master Sukiyaki House
El Paseo de Saratoga, San Jose · 2 guests
Dairy-free · Dairy-free by construction — sukiyaki is soy, mirin, sake and dashi with a raw egg dip. No dairy anywhere in the format.
Parking · Free surface lot at the El Paseo de Saratoga center.
Bar seats. The chef runs the sukiyaki ceremony tableside at the counter — A4/A5 wagyu, course by course.
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Drive·38 min·24.8 mi
6:45 PM
Home to Newark — evening in together
Newark

Why it fits

  • Eight years since you met, marked at the place you actually talked about — not a restaurant picked off a list.
  • Saturday hits 92°F in the west valley, so every stop is indoors and air-conditioned on purpose.
  • Three stops inside a five-mile triangle. About 90 minutes in the car all day, and you only park twice.
  • Lunch stays light because dinner is a multi-course A5 tasting, and neither meal needs a single dairy-free question asked.
  • The museum is self-paced with no ticket time, so the middle of the day can stretch or shrink on the day.
  • The 4:00 PM seating means a quiet room and the chef’s full attention, and you’re home by 6:45 with the evening free.

Bring

Nothing to carry — the day is indoors end to end.The car will be an oven at 6. Start it and run the AC before Deb gets in.

Backup

If Wagyu Master falls through: Mikiya Wagyu Shabu House in San Mateo — the shabu sibling you’ve been to, and it’s 82°F there instead of 92°F.