Shinagawa City, Japan
Nishigotanda, 1 Chome−6−3, 第3ビル, リビオ五反田プラグマＧタワー
$$$
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Unique standing restaurant (立喰い）and late night Udon in the heart of Gotanda. The restaurant is super small, only a room for 10 people. How to eat at this kind of place is very simple: you come, you eat, and you go, make it fast, not more than that. After you buy a udon ticket at the vending machine, the chef would already start to cook, and by the time you are at the table, the food is already ready. This time I chose Cold udon with chicken and chikuwa tempura (冷うどんとり天ちくわ天) with shrimp tempura (えび天) as an extra topping. The soup is very good and refreshing especially in the heat of summer. The tempura are all newly fried, and goes very well with the udon and soup. Recommended for those who wants a super cheap meal with high quality. Despite an unhygienic look inside the chef's area and very small room for the customers, the table and the utensils are clean to the Japanese standard.
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We have trouble ordering from the machine because no translation. We randomly picked our food. I got a hot udon with squid, chicken and meat tempura. Udon is chewy and dense, but the tempura are quite greasy. There are self-serve water. It is a small restaurant and have stand up to eat the udon. We have to wait outside and let them call us to go in for our food. Food came very quickly. During lunch time there is a long line up.
GREAT CHEWY UDON (best cold) with crisp juicy chicken tempura (which are warm). The broth is also light and refreshing without leaving you parched after downing it. Only downside is the vending machine ordering system that doesn't have any translation. Get help if you need!
Usually not a fan of udon but this place is really good. Ordered a hot udon, received within 3 minutes. Despite getting fried stuff, the meal didn't feel too heavy. The broth is delicious too. All for under 700 yen!
This Udon noodles is very al dente and tasty. You have to wait in line for some minutes because this restaurant is small. But this is stand-up eating Uson noodles one, so the line is moving quickly.
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