しんじょ揚、７００円。
親子丼、１６００円。
Minced meat croquette. Oyakodon.
This is a branch of a famous oyakodon shop here. I actually tried to go to the original shop before when I happened to be in the neighbourhood but it was closed. Both the original shop and the branch get quite a lot of publicity on TV and magazines so I always wanted to give it a try. Met up a friend for dinner. First shock : 700yen for just two teeny-weeny croquettes?! Second shock: the egg in the oyakodon was a bit too cooked to my liking and the sauce was too strong and too much that it soaked through all the rice. Final shock: there was this incredibly rude guy(possibly the owner?) who refused to give us time to look at the menu and asked us 3 times in a row “Still not ready to order?”. He literally chased us(and the couple next to us) out of the restaurant once we finished the food and were still drinking the tea. We were only there for like 50 mins….
鳥つね 湯島天神前店
釜揚げうどん、３５０円。
Kamaage udon - hot udon straight from the cooking pot and accompanied by a dipping sauce(cold in this case and with a raw egg). The udon is homemade - very chewy and nice. 350yen is so cheap! This place is on the roof of Ikebukuro Seibu department store. I knew about the roof floor self-service eateries but never thought of trying. Then I saw a gourmet program on TV introducing this udon shop and a search in the internet showed that it is actually mentioned in a few udon-related web sites, so I went to try on the next day. But as I should have known, everybody saw that program….I just couldn’t be bothered to wait. One season later, either the media influence has faded or it is just too cold to eat outside, no queue! ^^;;
かるかや
うにのクリームソーススバゲッティ、１２００円。
Spaghetti with sea urchin cream sauce. Just okay, lots of mushrooms and pepper, the uni is a bit bitter, the spaghetti is hard as I like it. Very small local Italian restauarant with only counter seats. I have been here for lunch before but apparently they don’t do lunch anymore. The chef is black, who likes to chit-chat with customers.
DESTINY
特中華そば、８８０円。
Pork bone + fish based soup. Thick slices of very soft chashu. Neither too salty nor too oily, very easy to eat.
七人の侍
野菜と肉のタレ焼き定食、７１４円。
Vegetables and pork in sweet soy sauce with a raw egg on top. Cheap and massive portion with lots of cabbage. Very strong taste that made me feel a little ill halfway, but I only decided to leave it when I saw a cockroach crawling all over the condiment tray…I grabbed one of the cooks immediately, but he just caught the cockroach with a tissue, didn’t apologise, didn’t clean the tray….It was probably a common occurrence?
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