This is a follow up of Glutton in Tokyo part 1 which I posted last week.
On Day 2 of my Tokyo trip, I walked around Shinjuku waiting for the day to end so I can spend the night at Ooedo Onsen Monogatari’s hot springs.
Tsuke-men
I visited the Tokyo Municipal Building around noon. As it was a Sunday, most of the shops under the skyscrapers were closed.
Luckily, the noodle shop was still open.
Tsuke men, or dipping noodles, is another way of eating ramen. Instead of a noodles in a bowl of hot soup, I got cold noodles and a small bowl of thick stock.
Take the noodles, dip into the stock and slurp loudly. I find this way of eating ramen fun because I rarely get this type of noodles back in Singapore
Tsuke men
For an extra 100 yen, I added on an iced coffee. yums
Udon
I visited the guidebook-famous Sankoku Ichi at Shinjuku for dinner before heading to the onsen theme park.
The interior had a vintage Japanese restaurant feeling with low ceiling, wooden floor, tables and chairs.
Katsu udon miso soup
Separately I love tonkatsu (fried, breaded pork cutlets), udon and miso soup so I ordered the Nagoya-style udon which was a combination of all three things.
Unfortunately, the sum was not bigger than the parts.
My pork chop sat on top of my udon in a shallow dish of miso. The crispy fried battered skin was soggy because of the soup. The udon didn’t have much soup to go with. The soup was tainted by the salty tonkatsu sauce. The veggie which I don’t eat was left as decoration.
If I ever go to the restaurant again, I will chose a plain udon.
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