Sansada Lunch, Asakusa

Sansada is a tempura place by Asakusa that DH refuses to skip when he is in Tokyo. I do not find the food to be particularly fantastic, but I do not want him to be disappointed for not having it, so we always have it. He did say, after finished the meal that he was done with this place. We shall see.

These are pictures of my bento and a shared Kakiage. DH had tempura but I did not take pictures of his food. The food was a bit below our expectation. The tempura that we had earlier in Tokyo tasted a lot better. 

Roka Akor, San Francisco

With our forthcoming trip back to San Francisco, I feel the need to post these "old" pictures from our trip back in August last year. I was so busy and somehow never posted these beautiful looking and delicious Japanese food we had. It was DH's and my first meal in that restaurant and certainly won't be our last. In fact, this is on top of my "to eat" list. L & V recommended the place and joined us for the meal. With four of us being there, we had a nice spread and got to try many dishes.

I can't quite pick which of these as my favorite as all of there were very fine. I was particularly impressed with the beef and hope to order the same one, should we have enough eaters on the table. Their scallops (above) were good and the sashimi was heavenly. Now I am getting excited about this long trip.

Noodles With Prawns

Something good does not have to be so complicated to cook.  I find that Hokkien noodles with various vegetables and prawns is easy to make and requires very little seasonings. The noodles themselves are very tasty and the vegetables make the dish healthier. I could have this for lunch or dinner. 

Tea House Tsujiri Daimaru

When DH and I travel, we normally take a little walk after lunch, trying to process and digest all the consumption. We then proceed find more things to digest like this Matcha things. 

This gem was found in Daimaru, Tokyo. There was a line formed outside. It's a normal scene to see lines outside the restaurants, cafes and places to eat in Japan. People seem to "like" to line up. I dislike having to wait, but I really wanted to try some matcha desserts and surrendered to "waiting". It actually did not take too long. We stood in line for a bit then we made it to the seating area and had to wait a little bit more. In no time, they had a table for us. Yay. We went in and to our surprise, it is quite a spacious place.

Greedily, I picked a large dessert that seems to have almost everything matcha while DH settled with Cold matcha with sliced lemons. He is not a big fan of matcha, quite obviously. If I were to follow his preference all the time, I would never ever have matcha.

It was a super satisfying dessert indeed. Now I had to burn the calories I put in!

Ichiran Roppongi

A friend of ours recommended us to eat at Ichiran, as we stay in Roppongi area and there's an Ichiran restaurant nearby. They are inexpensive and have one of the tastiest soup base. First of all, you have to buy the ticket for the ramen from the vending machine by the entrance. You bring the ticket to your seat/booth and make your selection on the provided paper and pass the the ticket to the attendant. They will bring a bowl of ramen per order shortly after. 

I find the noodles, sliced pork and the soup to be delicious and would not hesitate to recommend people to try. There are better ones, but this one is better than many anyway. 

Coffee At Muji Yurokucho Cafe, Tokyo

We headed to Mitsukoshi Ginza to have an early sushi lunch then walked along Ginza and our eyes caught Loft and Muji stores. We were ready for our afternoon coffee and we knew there is a big Muji cafe there.  The cafe is huge and it was still packed with people and there was a line forming at the entrance. We waited a bit and had our seat. They were still serving lunch when we came, but we had a couple of pastries of coffee. It's quite pleasant. 

Asakusa!!

We just have to make a visit to Asakusa each time we come to Tokyo. Not for the famous Sensoji temple, but more for walking along Nakamise, check out the shops and make some little purchases here and there. More importantly for DH is to have Tempura in his favorite restaurant by the entrance, Sansada. Here are tons of pictures in Asakusa. 

Tsukiji Aozara Sandaime, Ginza Mitsukoshi

We had sushi lunch in the restaurant that we did not know as it was written in Japanese character. I got the name after google-ing the internet. 

It was our third day and we wanted to have sushi for lunch. We went to Mitsubishi in Ginza and searched for one and we got a great one.

Nanbantei, Tokyo

Our hotel in Tokyo was in Roppongi area and the original restaurant of Nanbantei is just 15 minutes away. On foot. The founder is also the chef and we picked our choice. The lovely waiter, who happens to speaks English really well, helped us put together a menu for both of us. He was very kind and helpful. On the wall by the door, there were a couple of pictures of the chef with the former Ambassador of USA to Japan and Hillary Clinton. We were impressed.

No the food-wise. Every single piece was really good. I forgot to take picture of the beef and they were good too. Their menu is different than the ones in Singapore, but they said that they have nothing to do with the Singapore Nanbantei anyway. We enjoyed the food and the atmosphere. It's really the kind of place that I love to go for a meal.