豆大福。栗蒸し羊羹。
Popular Japanese sweet shop which is famous for its Mame Daifuku. Delicious! Studded with lots of whole red kidney beans. Also got the steamed chestnut youkan, good too.
群林堂
Archive for December, 2006
銀鱈の味噌漬焼＋ポテト入りメンチカツ、８００円。
Grilled black cod with miso, cutlet with potato, minced meat and onion.
レストラン イコブ
なまずの辛子みそ炒め、１８００円。ライス、３００円。
Dinner alone at a Thai restaurant. Fried catfish with chilli, 1800yen. SPY pink Premium wine cooler, 400yen. Plain rice 300yen. Considering the location is obscure and far from Ikebukuro station and the decor isn’t up to much, the menu is priced like a fancy upscale restaurant. The deep-fried catifsh is very dry, not a good choice, but so many different spices are used and the sauce is so full of flavours. Coconut milk is added so it is sweet too. I told the waitress that I can eat very hot food and it came very spicy. I was instantly hooked(to the sauce), had to refrain from stuffing the spice leaves into my mouth. The pink drink is only 4% alcohol, very sweet and artificial coloured/flavoured.
シーフードの辛子みそ炒め、１８００円。
Went back again and ordered the seafood with the same sauce. There are squid, prawn, green pepper, mussel and scallop in it. Just as good as last time. Really a shame that it is so expensive, otherwise I would go back and try other things too~
プリック
Cozy little bistro with warm wooden decor and homely ambience.
３４００円のディナーコース。
前菜： カブのブランマンジェ。
Dinner course starts from 3400yen(tax included, no service charge) and offers a variety of choices for appetizer, main dish and dessert. Glass wine is 500yen~.
For appetizer I had Turnip blanc manger, which was light and smooth, accompanied by smoked salmon and vegetables.
鴨もも肉の黒ビールとハチミツ煮込み。（＋３００）
焼きたてのイチジクパイとイチジクコンポート、アイスクリーム添え。
Simmered duck thigh with black beer and honey. Very soft meat and sweet sauce. The duck was from France, and had a yummy layer of fat under the skin. Freshly baked fig pie and fig compote with vanilla ice-cream was a bit basic and small though. Overall, quite a bargain for the quality.
ＧＬＯＢＥ du ＭＯＮＤＥ
セミドライトマト、プロセスチーズ、タイム。ゴルゴンゾーラとハチミツ。
カボチャ。カマンベールチーズとオリーブ。
Semi-dried tomato, processed cheese and thyme. Gorgonzola and honey - not so much gorgonzola but very sweet with lots of honey.
Pumpkin(scone/biscuit texture, nice!). Camembert and olves.
クロワッサン。ラタトュイュのバゲットサンド。
Croissant - popular item, very good. Ratatouille baguette sandwich - lots of sweet veggy.
ブルーベリー田舎パン、キャンヌベルジュ、セーグル・ノア。
田舎そば、１２００円。玉子焼、５００円。
Inaka soba - “country soba”, thick and dark soba made with whole buckwheat.
Tamagoyaki - Japanese egg roll.
Both are absolutely delicious!!! Price is not cheap but the food is really worth it. The soba is the best I have had recently, and the egg roll is to die for.
和邑
A rather local yakiniku restaurant recommended by a friend who is living nearby and is sort of a regular. We got to order stuff that are not on the menu(e.g. cow tongue sashimi and beef sashimi), and enjoy an incredible omakase course which allowed us to try almost everything on the menu. It is however an impossible task to translate the menu…in fact I can’t even match the name with the right picture cos they all look the same. ^^;; Basically we tried various parts of cow, both the meat and the horumon.
キムチ盛り合わせ。牛アキレス腱ポン酢。にんにく焼き。
Assorted kimchi. Achilles tendon in ponzu. Grilled garlic.
センマイ刺し。レバー刺し。
Cow stomach sashimi. Liver sashimi.
牛タン刺し。牛刺し。
Cow tongue sashimi. Beef sashimi.
幻のタン塩(ゲタ)。
From here, the meat are to be grilled. The pic on the left is some fancy cow tongue. The rest…sorry, don’t really remember.
The umeshu here is very nice with a variety of choices - nihonshu based, shochu based, white wine based, red wine based, and house blend. I like the house blend and nihonshu based of umeshu the most. The one in the picture is just nihonshu.
シビレ。
My favourite horumon “shibire”, it tastes like foie gras~ Takes a while to grill until it is smooth and creamy.
The steak is nice too. The waitor cut it into pieces for us. But I prefer the fatty thin slices of beef which are just much more juicy.
We had some additional orders which I didn’t take pictures of…btw, there were 5 of us, 4 girls and 1 guy. ^^;;;
ユッケ。豚トロ。
Yukke - Korean version of Steak Tartare. Tontoro - fatty pork.
Horumon also, forgot name. Hard and chewy texture.
On the right is Kimchi fried rice.
The usual stomach-filling carbs(though we were already very full…): Korean beef soup rice, chilled buckwheat noodles, and ramen in a hot stone bowl. I think we paid about 12,000yen each. Considering how much we ate and drank, and how amazing the quality of the meat was, not a bad deal.
My friend actually remembered the menu in Japanese and kindly sent it to me, so I just copied here.
・キムチ盛り合わせ ・牛アキレス腱ポン酢 ・にんにく焼き
・センマイ刺し ・レバー刺し ・牛タン刺し ・牛刺し
・幻のタン塩(ゲタ) ・カイノミ ・シンシン ・ホルモン ・コブクロ
・ギアラ ・コプチャン ・シビレ ・ヒレ ・トモ三角 ・ザブトン ・ツラミ
・ユッケ ・豚トロ ・ウルテ ・ハツモト ・子袋
・キムチチャーハン ・石焼ユッケジャンラーメン ・冷麺 ・カルビクッパ
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