It just came to me as I was conducting the zen-like preparations to write yet another review. The bare, semi-Chinese interior of Fei reminds me quite a lot of Australia! When I lived there, it seemed like there was a tendency to make things cool by leaving the floor bare concrete and just clear-coating it, […]
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Day Nite, Otemachi
There are always those days when it’s rainy and cold, and no one feels like going out, and you just want to stay in the building. Today wasn’t one of those days, so I’m not sure why we stayed in the building, but I got to have my first experience with the wacky cafeteria-style place […]
Wu Shang Lu, Otemachi (五香路)
If it quacks like a duck…I dunno. Things get really crowded around Otemachi at lunch time. I mean like “If you don’t leave the office at 11:30, lots of places will have lines of people waiting outside”-full. This is one of those places (quacks) but it didn’t really taste like duck (platypus?). Going with the […]
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Sekkomon, Otemachi (石庫門, Oazo B1)
Oazo B1 branch of this purportedly Shanghai restaurant. 4 choices of lunch set hovering around Y1000, with today’s choices including Ma Po Tofu, Tan Tan Men (these are Shanghai specialties? I didn’t know Shanghai was in Sichuan!), Hoi Ko Lo (sorry I can’t spell this) and egg/jellyfish/pork stir fry. My ma po was adequately spicy […]
The Orchid, Otemachi (Oazo)
Day 2. There are a decent number of big buildings around. It’s a little too far to walk to Maru and Shin Maru, but there’s that Sankei building where we went yesterday, this First Square place, and Oazo, among others. This may have been my first time in Oazo – it was trying to do […]
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Shina Hanten, Shiba Daimon (新亜飯店)
This company dinner worked out better than expected. The overall score of 3.5 on Tabelog was much-remarked-on before the event, and the shabby atmosphere led to somewhat predictable discussions of how dirty=tasty for ethnic restaurants. But the food was pretty good, really, and abundant, and they brought the beer really fast. While one guy took […]
Azabu Choko (麻布長江), Roppongi (Nishi Azabu)
Hmmm, Chinese lunch. Not something that usually floats my boat, but something I’ve mentioned wanting to learn a bit more about recently. In this case we came to Azabu Choko quite by accident – wandering down the backstreet hills from Roppongi to Nishi Azabu, not settling on anything, finally getting to Gaien Nishi Dori and […]
Chugoku Hanten, Roppongi (中国飯店)
It’s funny, when I went to Shanghai Dream a few weeks ago, it was because we were told there wasn’t smoked seating available at Chugoku Hanten. Now that I’ve been to the Hanten Honten, I’ve realized that Shanghai Dream is really a chain ten. There you go! The food was pretty similar – Chinese lunch […]
Shanghai Dream, Roppongi
Inspired by my last visit to Hutong and realization that I don’t know enough about Chinese lunches, I maneuvered today’s lunch into a trip to Shanghai Dream, known (to me) as ‘the orange-fronted place’. This is on Roppongi Dori’s south side, on the way to Nishi Azabu (near the horrible Charleston Cafe, or the quite […]
Hu Tong San La Ju, Roppongi
Duck! To my knowledge, this is the only place to go if you really want a duck lunch in Roppongi (Café Eight is known for it, but only at dinner, and their lunches are insipid – I think of it as bad Chinese diner.) The too-much-food and too-tasty Y2000 duck lunch is well-met by lots […]