Perfectly meeting the requirements of today – a place that’s a decent walk from the office, but all underground (if desirable), offering spicy noodles and fried dumplings. Yesterday’s spicy noodles got me thinking about having ‘spicy noodle week’ but I don’t think I have enough stamina to do that every day. And I missed Monday, […]
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Xian, Kanda （西安刀削麺 酒楼）
Well, if you can read those kanji you’ll know that I had toushoumen for lunch today. I was pretty happy about it too – I thought this place was good. Toushoumen are a sort of performance-art food, a little like the picci that were on the menu at Il Pacioccone last Friday night. By this […]
Taikourou, Yaesu (泰興楼)
I’m starting to feel like a Shitamachi dining insider – this very good recommendation from Ricky is a gyoza specialist (with a broad menu) whose branch is Gyoza Bar Fei, in Kayabacho, tidily reversing my own dining trend between last night and today. I don’t really remember the gyoza at Fei, but I’ll remember the […]
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Rontan, Awajicho (弄堂）
Does this name really mean ‘play room’? I was shut out of the famous tonkatsu place I tried to go to (any hole-in-the-wall place that still has a line at 1:45 must be pretty good), found another closed-for-the-day place that looked nice, and ended up throwing in the towel at this gyoza specialist. Which doesn’t serve […]
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Shanghai Chubou, Kanda (上海厨房)
Well, if I’m going to have Tonkatsu Tuesdays, should I also implement Cheap Chinese Fridays? Because that’s what I got here. It was sorta soothing, it wasn’t bad, and it was really cheap. I’m totally guessing on the name Work plus an inconveniently-scheduled meeting meant that I didn’t get out for lunch until after 2. […]
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Kanda Hanten, Kanda
This is a boring post. Watch out. Quick lunch with Zoner to catch up after vacation; in a slightly compulsive way, I just steered toward Kanda and picked out a new place. It’s getting a bit thin up there other than the mass of shops under the tracks; we looked at the place that has […]
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Hong Kong Shokufu, Kanda (香港食府)
In today’s short break in the rain, I really enjoyed walking around Kanda. It’s like 4 blocks and 40 years away from Marunouchi. Just great. That will require some explaining, since I’ve previously said how ordinary it is. First, I managed to have the shrimp in chili sauce that I’ve been thinking of for ages. […]
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Toushe, Tokyo (多謝,北町ほろよい通り)
Japan is a different country, and there are different attitudes toward a number of things (plus they have a different word for everything!). One of the really weird ones there is…drunkenness. Public drunkenness. In Japan, it’s just OK! It’s fine to be that guy who’s too drunk to walk, thus just falls asleep on the […]
Yong Jiang, Nihonbashi (甬江)
Nothing like a quick Chinese dinner on the way home. You know I’m not generally in favor of Chinese dinners, but I’m certainly in favor of broadened horizons. This place is on the 4th floor of Coredo, near Da Cibo and Quatorieme. It’s a Big Menu place – folds out to 6 pages, organized into […]
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Ten Ten, Kanda (天天)
Man, Kanda is brutal around noon. You know I like to eat late, but Zoner is a pain about eating early. Today we compromised at 12, which turned out to be exactly the wrong thing to do. When we got up to Kanda at 12:15 (my brilliant idea), we were turned away from 4 places […]