And not just filling but DELICIOUS as well, AND filling, and super close to my hotel.
I'm pretty much killin' it right now....
But, anyhow, it's lunch time, and I'm working from my room today and the internet connection sucks, and I'm hungry but I don't want to waste a lot of time. In the building right next door to my hotel is this small breakfast/lunch spot, very typical of the many thousands that canvas the city. The offerings may be different but the system is much the same, plastic food in the window, machine where you select and pay, hand the ticket to the person behind the counter, grab a stool. Within seconds, faster then Mc Donald's, your food is ready. Healthy (usually) and fresh.
This is gonna be good!
Quite obviously this must be the machine.
In we go
This is a no bullshit post. We are gonna eat and roll out.
I select the "set" menu. Meaning that it's not just one item. I'm having the hot soba and a breaded/fried chicken cutlet over rice.
The soba is similar in appearance to ramen. The only, and huge I might add, difference is the noodle. Ramen are alkaline noodles, making them a little chewy and tend to be more flavorful. Soba is made from buckwheat. You can find soba in both the cold and hot versions.
Delicious and hearty. The noodles were packed with a lot of flavor and the broth was a soy broth but not too salty. I really really enjoyed this.
This chicken and rice wasn't the star of the show, and it wasn't intended to be. What it did do was top off the tank, filled me up, a nice floater above the soup in my belly.
Not every meal in Tokyo is this inexpensive (normally it's quite the opposite), but most are this satisfying.
Eat out
DVA
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