Tuesday, December 31, 2013

HARBS Dessert

 the infamous harbs cakes! Another must try dessert place in Tokyo! The only reason i waited so long to come here was because this place is pretty pricey. Cake wise the price ranges from 800-1200 yen a piece. To dine-in, you also need to order a drink. So basically just by sitting down you'll need to pay at least 1600 yen or above!
mille crepe 730 yen
Queen cake 1200 yen

menu for 2014




Monday, December 30, 2013

美登利











The three of us decided to randomly order things we like, instead of getting the normal lunch sets. Turns out, it's about the same price. I think the bill came up to around 15000- 10000 yen. This big toro was on the pricier side, for 500 yen. But the rest.. same old same old :)

Sunday, December 29, 2013

無敵家拉麵

 After the longggg hour wait outside the restaurant, we were both super hungry when we walked in! We added two extra servings of egg(味玉), one extra serving of meat(炙りチャーシュー) and ginger! I didn't feel bad for ordering that much because all extra toppings were just 100 yen each!


I ordered the 1080 yenチャーシュー麺 


 This probably explains why i feel like i have endless meat in my bowl today :P On top of that i also ordered a side dish 辛子明太子岩のり丼. I walked out of that place feeling like a happy fatty <3

http://www.mutekiya.com/stick/index.html

Saturday, December 28, 2013

五代目 野田岩 (のだいわ)- Michelin One Star

awwww look at that small うなぎ! ^_^

 Been wanting to try this place for a while now, since this place was up on the must try list- rated michelin one star for eel うなぎ! I do have to stress that they have multiple locations, and the one i went to wasn't the original one at asabu, but at Ginza. According to bloggers, the one at asabu always takes forever to get in, and they don't even accept reservations. The difference between the original 本店 and the others is just the decorations and the feel of the place. The original place was way more fancier, i'd imagine if i did went there i probably would be taking lots of pictures of the surrounding and not just the food.

It took a while for us to decide what we wanted to order, after the lady stopped by for the probably third time.. we finally decided and told her that we want one 10500 and one 15750 yen set. The lady than politely asked us if we wanted to try 自然鰻.. and we said yes. According to her, those are harder to get because they have limited servings per day..
蒲焼コース10,500円
お通し三種・志ら焼・鰻とふかのひれ入り茶碗蒸
蒲焼(御飯、香の物、肝吸、箸休め付)・デザート

蒲焼コース キャビア付15,750円
お通し三種・志ら焼(キャビア付)・鰻とふかのひれ入り茶碗蒸
蒲焼(御飯、香の物、肝吸、箸休め付)・デザート

本店info :
五代目野田岩 東京都港区東麻布1-5-4. Tel: +81 3 3583 7852. Hours: 1100-1330 1700-2000 定休日: 日曜日

jello-ish tasting unagi appetizer

some sort of seaweed, yum!
 This is so exciting! the lady basically just dropped this off my table and left me staring at it haha..
 ta-da! my unagi! Since for my meal i get two sets of Unagi, i told her i wanted two different flavors- one with salt one with sauce. If i remember correctly, this is the regular unagi and not the 自然鰻. I didn't do much research on the topic, but if i remember correctly, someone once told me that 自然鰻 are the ones from the restaurant aka those eels were fed by the restaurant and not some random ones they bought from others.
 I lifted my bento wanted to see what was under it, turns out.. it's just hot boiled water used to keep my food hot! Smart huh!






Okay! so the second bento is finally the well known 自然鰻! After trying both.. i guess the only thing i can say about the two is that.. they both don't really taste like fish. T_T.. If i have to say a difference between the two i would say the meat in 自然鰻 was softer than the other. But besides that.. i have no idea why the price difference were so huge and why there's such a fuss on 自然鰻 topic now!




Nana's Green Tea


 Compare to other green tea sweet places, nana's green tea's desserts are not as expensive and tastes just as good as the other ones! Found this place on my way back from Nikko, in which i stopped at the tokyo sky tree. It's located in the corner.. not that hard to find :)

Will definately come back and try more if i have time!


Friday, December 27, 2013

淺草金半




 I did some research on my own before coming to this place. Many commented that it is much cheaper to come here for lunch, when meals are around 2000ish yen, as oppose to dinner 10000 yen.

nidanju 3150yen (limited servings per day)
Originally it came with both bentos stacked on top of each other, but i was too excited so i laid it out instead ^3^...
mmm honestly.. all i can say is..
the quality of meat definitely changes EVERYTHING.
Next time when someone blame you for bad cooking, you can just argue that it's because the meat quality wasn't good :P




 8400 and 5250 yen sukiyaki lunch
the only difference between the two was the portion.
I ended up ordering one more plate of meat because the meat was wayyy toooo oishi! No wonder people gave this place super good rating, because it's worth it! The lady even stopped by and helped us cook everything.