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かつ吉 水道橋店 (Katsu Kichi Suidoubashi)

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A favourite lunch spot near Tokyo Dome. Lunch includes salad, plain rice or rice with green shiso(aojiso), miso soup - all refillable. Other than the yuzu soy sauce dressing on the table, you can ask for other flavours: 1) sesame, 2) onion, 3) umejiso(sour plum shiso) and mayonnaise. Dressing menu here.
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焼肉丼、¥1100。 盛り合わせフライ定食(串・海老かつ)、¥1500。
Yakiniku rice bowl. Pork is stir-fried with onion.
Assorted fry: Kushi-katsu(kushi means skewer) with pumpkin, shishitou pepper, onion and pork. and Ebi-katsu(prawn chopped and deep-fried).
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若鶏ねぎ塩丼、¥1100。若鶏生姜焼定食、¥1300。
Chicken and leek rice bowl. Grilled chicken with ginger soy sauce.
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豚ロース生姜焼定食、¥1300。若鶏おろしかつ定食、¥1300。
Grilled pork loin with ginger soy sauce. Fried chicken with grated raddish and ponzu.
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柳川風かつ丼、¥1500。元祖かつ丼、¥1000。
Yanagigawa style katsu-don. Fried pork with tororo(grated mountain yam) in soup.
Ganso katsu-don. Fried pork with egg.
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海の幸フライ定食(海老かつ、白身魚フライ)、¥1300。 とんかつ ロース、¥2100。
Assorted fry: Ebi-katsu and fried fish.
Tonkatsu(2100yen) from the regular menu. Hmm I think the lunch menu has better value for money. (Lunch menu for each month can be found in this page.)

This is a sister restaurant of Bodaiju(entry here) and is in the same location. The menu is quite similar but I really like the non-deep-fried menu in Katsu Kichi. At lunch time, Katsu Kichi is non-smoking which is great, despite the fact that there is this old furniture smell, probably from the wooden decor, that always takes a few mins getting used to. Service is good in both places.

かつ吉 水道橋店 (Katsu Kichi Suidoubashi)
Add: B1, 1-4-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tel: 03-3812-6268

信濃神麺 烈士洵名@春日 (Shinanoshinmen Resshijunmei@Kasuga)

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炙りチャーシューらーめん(太麺)、¥1100。
Aburi-Chashu ramen. For some reason the chashu comes in a plate separately from the ramen. The soup, the chashu, the seasoned egg and the seasoned Eryngii mushroom are all not bad but I find them too salty. You can choose either thick noodles or thin noodles. Thick noodles is made from barley and thin noodles is made from “black wheat”. Thick noodles is chewy and thin noodles is almost like soba. Both are good but I personally prefer thick noodles.
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チャーハン&半らーめんのセット(細麺)、¥850。白みそらーめん、¥800。
Cha-han(fried rice) and half ramen set. Fried rice is surprisingly nice.
Shiro-miso(white miso) ramen is not bad.
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辛みそ麺、¥900。しそ餃子、¥300。
Spicy miso ramen and Shiso gyoza are both so-so.
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特製冷し麺、¥800。特製つけ麺、¥850。
Special cold noodles(summer menu) with marinated vegetables, seasoned egg, chicken with mayonnaise. The sauce is some sweet dressing with sesame seed. Not bad but again…..too salty!!
Special tsukemen is not salty(phew!) and is quite good. The portion is so big that I couldn’t finish - the cheaper version of tsukemen is enough.
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焼肉定食+半らーめんのセット、¥1050。
Yakiniku set includes a half ramen. The pork is soft and the sweet sauce is not bad in a junky sort of way.
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ぶためし+半らーめんのセット、¥750。クレームブリュレ、¥250。
Buta-meshi(pork on rice) and half ramen set.The creme brulee is tiny but surprisingly nice for a ramen shop.

This is a branch of a ramen chain originally from Nagano. Not the kind of high-profile “gourmet” ramen shop that always has queue outside, but it is cheap and it opens really long hours(11:00am to 2:00am) which is kinda convenient.
Menu(J) here.

信濃神麺 烈士洵名@春日 (Shinanoshinmen Resshijunmei@Kasuga)
Add:1-15-6, Nishikata, Bunkyo-ku
Tel: 03-5684-2263

菩提樹 (Bodaiju)

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A yoshoku/tonkatsu place located next to Tokyo dome and kourakuen amusement park. Very spacious with forest-ish wooden decor(in a theme park sort of way).
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Pickles. A massive bowl of salad. Other than the yuzu and soy sauce dressing on the table, there are three types of salad dressing(menu) you can request for free: sesame seed and miso, grated vegetables, sour plum shiso and mayonnaise. I like sesame seed one the most.
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0706220050黒毛和牛ハンバーグ定食、¥2100。
“Black-haired” wagyu hamburger steak set, 2100yen. Also came with beansprout. The waiter rolled out the huge hotplate on a wagon, poured the demi-glace sauce and cut the hamburger in front of you. Rice is mixed with green shiso(aojiso). Salad, rice and miso soup are all refillable.

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3種盛り定食、¥1500。
Wagyu hamburger, crab cream croquette and fried prawn.
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特製カツカレー、¥1500。牛ステーキ定食、¥1600。
Special katsu(cutlet) curry. Curry sauce is a bit salty but the pork loin katsu is nice.
Beef steak is soft and tender, very good!
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てごねかつ定食、¥1260。替わりかつ丼、¥1500。
Minced pork katsu is delicious!
Donburi with pork katsu, tororo(grated yam), pickled veggy. All the ingredients are seasoned so the salt content sort of adds up and overall a bit salty.
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海老カツ丼、¥1200。豚ハンバーグ定食、¥1300。
Donburi with prawn katsu, veggy and half-cooked egg. The prawn katsu is very good.
Pork hambuger(with grated radish topping) actually tastes better than the more expensive beef hamburger.
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石鍋焼きかつ丼(ロース)、¥1500。盛り合わせフライ定食(串かつ、カニコロッケ)、¥1500。
Donburi with pork katsu in a hot stone pot. The staff pours the soup to the katsu(also udon at the bottom) and you add the raw egg and seaweed yourself. Choose it only if you like katsu soaked in soup…
Assorted fry: Kushi-katsu(kushi means skewer) with pumpkin, shishitou pepper, onion and pork. Crab cream croquette.

Overall the food is good. Service very friendly. Opens on Sunday and holidays. Only thing is there is no non-smoking seats. The sister restaurant Katsu Kichi next door is non-smoking at lunch time and the menu is similar.

菩提樹 (Bodaiju)
Add: 1-14-3, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tel: 03-3818-1020

moomin bakery & cafe (ムーミンベーカリー&カフェ)

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Dinner at this cute(bordering on tacky ^^;;) bakery cafe located inside an amusement park.
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Bread is self-service and all-you-can-eat. A bit dry and not much varieties though. There is a toaster for you to reheat the bread yourself. Salad(630yen).
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Salmon cream soup(525yen). Apparently Scandinavian specialty. It was already cold when it came out, and not much ingredients inside the soup.
Chef’s specialty: Pork saute in mushroom sauce(1470yen). Pretty normal…
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The cafe is right underneath a roller-coaster. You can hear the screams while you eat there…^^;;;
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Sandwich with salmon+cream cheese, and ham. Brie cheese and dried tomato. Take-out sandwiches are much better!
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洋食 GOTOO (Youshoku GOTOO)

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060204 035昔懐かしナポリタン、900円。カキフライ(3個)、600円。
Old fashioned “Spaghetti Naporitan”. Ingredients are bacon, ham, onion, bell pepper, mushroom. Sauce is tomato ketchup. I seldom order this even though every yoshoku place has it on the menu. But it is quite nice once in a while~. Fried oysters are very good too.
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茎の花 (Kuki no hara)

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粟ぜんざい、740円。
Awa-zenzai: millet and red bean. Hmm, both the milet and the red bean are a bit watery.
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Tipsy’s

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柿と鴨とフォアグラのテリーヌ。
Persimmon and duck and foie gras terrine. Sweet and very good! Bread is hot.
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豚ロースのロースト エピスソース。ヨーグルトのムース、キャラメルアイスと柿添え。
Roasted pork loin in épice sauce. The pork is rather dry.
Yogurt mousse, caramel ice-cream and persimmon. The ice-cream is good.
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Lunch course is 1890yen.
Tipsy’s