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
ムルギ マサラ： チキン骨付きもも肉のロスト風カレー（辛口）、８５０円。ナン、２６５円。
Dinner at a local but quite famous Bangladeshi restaurant. Murgi Masala: chicken thigh Masala curry, with lots of well-cooked onions in it. The chef warned me that it is very spicy, but turned out it wasn’t really. Very mild and sweet. Nice!
ルチ
カジキ鮪の煮付け定食、８５０円。
A newly opened local washoku place. Simmered spearfish lunch set is just so-so though.
汁なし担々麺セット（サラダ、餃子付）１０００円。
Tan-tan noodles(no soup), comes with salad(all cooked veggy) and boiled dumplings. Very local Szechuan restaurant that somehow got very famous because of its authentic Szechuan spiciness. First-timer will be strongly recommended by almost every waitress, every kitchen staff, every cook, over and over, to try the mild version first, but I stubbornly insisted on having the normal spicy version. Turned out it was actually okay, the tingling and numbing sensation from the Szechuan pepper spreads over your tongue and your mouth, which is quite scary, but because your tongue is numbed, you don’t really feel painful. ^^;; I couldn’t finish all the noodles though, not because it was too hot, but because it was a big bowl and I got really tired of the same taste. However the two waitresses came to me one after another saying, “See, I told you to get the mild one.” ^^;;; Very local and friendly ambience though, which is kinda contagious and makes you feel like chiming into the conversation between the customers and the very talkative waitresses.
栄児(Ron-a-ru)
Add: 3-34-12 Itabashi, Itabashi-ku.
Tel: 03-3961-9188
ミルククレープケーキとコーヒーのセット、９００円。
I am sucker for cafes with wooden interior and have to venture in even though I know a cup of coffee will usually cost as much as lunch. ^^;; Milk crepe cake and coffee, 900yen.
One of my friends said this Nepal/Indian restaurant was famous but at lunch time they only do buffets(950yen), which I tried anyway. There were four different kinds of curries(chicken curry was the best), naan and saffron rice, some fried snacks and simple salad, yogurt, chai and coffee. It is really not bad for a buffet lunch. The naan were cut into small pieces so you could take a small piece at a time and wait for new ones coming out hot from the oven when the old ones got cold.
ネパール餃子ＭＯＭＯ、４８０円。チーズナン、３５０円。
Went back for dinner. Nepal steamed dumplings “momo” – just like the chinese “sho lon po” but with lamb meat and thicker skin, quite nice though. The sauce in the middle was quite spicy. Cheese naan, very soft and the melted cheese had onion in it.
シェフサラダ、４８０円。タンドリー スペアリブ、１３００円。
Chef’s salad. Gosh isn’t it massive for 480yen?! A bit too much dressing.
Tandoori sparerib was absolutely wonderful! I couldn’t stop munching the bones covered in chilli paste. The meat was not as soft and tender as I had hoped but the hot spicy flavour satisfied my tastebuds so no complaints.
豚あばら肉煮込みカレー（コルマソース）、ナン付きで１２８０円。マンゴヤンラッシ、４８０円。
Back to this nice local curry place. Pork sparerib curry(Korma sauce). Mild and creamy, very nice! The naan is soft and hot from the oven as usual, very massive but so good that you can finish it in no time and want more. Mango Lassi cocktail – very sweet and quite strong in alcohol.
マナカマナ
小籠包＆回鍋肉丼のランチ、５００円。 All that for 500yen! Isn’t that too cheap?! Taste-wise it was quite okay too, the dumplings were steamed after I ordered so very hot.
美来