November 27, 2006

硯家

硯家南池袋店
豚肉うどん、７７０円。
Pork udon(hot). This udon place has two restaurants which are only a few minutes walk from each other. I have been to the honten(original restaurant), entry here. I didn't like the chilled udon last time so when I went to try the branch restaurant, I had the hot soup one, which is not as salty and much better. The beef was no good last time so I have pork...unfortunately the pork meat is also very rough and hard. For a simple bowl of udon, I did have to wait for a very long time even though the restaurant was pretty empty. I thought I wasn't going back to his place anymore but I saw the tempura other customer ordered and it looked so good...damn.

硯家 本店
だし巻き玉子、３５０円。天ぷらざるうどん、８４０円。
Honten has better seating and better service, so I went back to try out their egg roll and tempura zaru udon. The egg roll and the udon are no good, but the tempura is quite good - huge slices of aubergine, pumpkin, shishitou(small green pepper), prawn and bell pepper, all freshly fried. Very thick flour coating but it was crispy. 840yen for a tempura udon is very cheap!

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