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It was eight years ago, and still I remember every bite. I was in Seattle for one night and I was going to live it up. We ate at Wild Ginger, and we feasted on what was then still on the very edge of food fashion: Pan-Asian fusion cuisine.

Today Seattle shares the Pan-Asian food title with its Canadian sister just across the sound, Vancouver, B.C., but Wild Ginger is still heralded as one of the best restaurants on the West Coast.

Sarah Gim may think that she's discovered great things in the Eastern European heritage of Pittsburgh. But nothing's ever been made out of a potato that even approaches Siam lettuce cups with sea bass in a spicy peanut sauce (swoon!). It's sweet and salty and fishy and tangy and the heat rises behind your ears and OH MY GOD I need to eat here every night.

1. I'd rather eat a pierogi with #7 Ben Roethlisberger (hot!) than salmon with Matt Hasselbeck (not hot!).
2. Steelers are people. Seahawks are...birds. Tweet tweet, little birdies!
3. If they got into a fight, Polish sausage would eat an oyster alive.
4. Black and gold helmet cookies are just so much classier than...what color are the Seahawks? Oh yeah, too many - navy blue, Pacific blue, green and white.
5. I'd rather drink an Iron City Beer than...Starbucks.
6. Pittsburgh was founded in 1758 and the Steelers were born in 1933. Seattle was founded in the 1850s and the Seahawks in 1976. Seattle is such a baby.
7. Pittsburgh has its own language. Wut dem Seahacks got...? Exactly.
8. Sour cream tastes much better with potato pancakes than an apple. 

I've been a Seahawks fan since I was old enough to say "football," and couldn't be happier that my favorite NFL team is finally taking its rightful place in the Superbowl. But what matters more than a city's fortunes on the gridiron? Well, their food, of course.

This week, Sarah Gim and I will be comparing and contrasting the foods of the two super cities, Seattle and Pittsburgh. We'll be butting heads in an all-out food war. I may be a tad bit biased... but I think I know who's going to win.

Seattle is a city characterized by its position on the great Puget Sound, and as such the city's cuisine is based on the seafood available as near as the sound and as far away as Alaska. Thanks to the huge ocean-going vessels that come and go from the downtown ports, the city also is flavored by the rich food cultures of Japan and China.

When I think of Seattle, the first food I can taste, raw and salty in my mouth, is the oyster. I like to think it's what real seahawks would eat.