Sep 16

“Very Delicate/Bizarre Gourmet Guidebook” introduces many restaurants serving astonishing dishes with various meanings. It is an adventurous gourmet guidebook. Last time, we were introduced to the three most startling curry and rice restaurants by a blog writer who directed us to the five most startling Chinese noodle soup restaurants this time. If someone is interested in bizarre food, just go try their dishes. We tell you about them.

Fifth place: Cocoa Chinese noodle soup by Kikuya Restaurant

The ordinary noodle swims in the cocoa soup. It’s just exactly like the menu says. The taste is much more acceptable than we had imagined. It isn’t as you might think that this dish is simply a mixture of noodles and cocoa. Cocoa is not simply cocoa. The cocoa that matches best with the noodle was found only after several tries. It’s produced by Morinaga & Co., Ltd. Congratulations Morinaga!

Restaurant’s name: Kikuya
Category: Chinese noodle soup
Address: 10-3 Ohkawa-Cho, Senju, Adachi-Ku, Tokyo
Closed: Mondays

Fourth place: Soup noodle with a frog by Raifukuken

A fried frog is in the soup. Its chicken-like taste greatly matches with the noodle. According to the restaurant owner, the frog is cooked after the menu has been ordered since only fresh frogs are used. He could buy them nearby till lately, but has to go far away to get them now. His restaurant serves other frog dishes, too. It indicates his favor for frogs.

Restaurant’s name: Raifukuken
Category: Chinese restaurant
Address: 5-7-7 Kanayama, Naka-Ku, Nagoya, Aichi
Opening hours: 11:00 – 14:00 / 18:00 – 21:00
Closed: every third Saturdays

Third place: Japanese Worcester sauce noodle soup by Kaniya

Just as there are noodle soups with soy or miso sauce, this one comes with Japanese Worcester sauce. It’s a very popular menu in this restaurant although nothing special but a normal Japanese Worcester sauce is used. The restaurant owner asked himself why there is no Japanese Worcester sauce noodle soup although noodle soups with soy or miso sauce exist. This led him to the creation of a noodle soup with Japanese Worcester sauce. It’s fantastic to carry his idea out, and we admire his challenge.

Restaurant’s name: Kaniya
Category: Chinese restaurant
Address: 4-19-8 Miyamoto, Funabashi-Shi, Chiba
Opening hours: 20:00 – 27:00
Closed: Sundays and national holidays
Second place: Coffee noodle soup by Aroma

The noodle made from coffee in coffee soup. The dough of the noodle is mixed with coffee, and this noodle has been patented by the restaurant owner. This noodle must be very proud of him. The coffee soup affected us much more than the coffee noodle. When a novice orders it, Café au lait soup is usually served. Black coffee is possible too if requested. But then, what does novice mean?

Restaurant’s name: Aroma
Category: Café
Address: 2-19-16 Takaramachi, Katshushika-Ku, Tokyo
Closed: Tuesdays
No. of tables: 12

First place: Ice cream noodle soup by Kikuya

The owner who created cocoa noodle soup also makes ice cream noodle soup. A vanilla ice cream is cut into halves, and these two pieces float in the noodle soup. It’s a very sensational noodle soup. It’s incredibly tasty. Ice cream is melting in the hot soup and makes the soup creamy. As if the soup noodle were the stew or the pork based soup noodle. We really like to eat it every week without any problems. If the idea of the ice cream noodle soup is strange or our definition of the noodle soup has been biased, we have come to deeply think about it.

Restaurant’s name: Kikuya
Category: Chinese noodle soup
Address: 10-3 Ohkawa-Cho, Senju, Adachi-Ku, Tokyo
Opening hours: 11:00-15:00 / 17:00-20:00
Closed: Mondays

Feb 3

Although there are many poor people in North Korea, very small number of people live so far from starvation there. Peculation of rescuesupplies by the army, as they say, happens so frequently. You would be amazed when you come to know what Kim Jong-il eats every day … and would be at a loss for words to see how the dictator lives in that poorest country.

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Feb 3

Ramen, one of the representive Japanese food, is completely different from Chinese noodle. Chinese people seem to enjoy Ramen as Japanese food, though it’s based on traditional chinese food. We Japanese so happy to live in Japan, where we can taste this Ramen everywhere…anyway, there are great number of Japanese Ramen shop in foreign countries these days.

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Jan 30

“Buying some Taiwanese fried chicken and eat on my way home is like my daily schedule,” said Lu, a senior high school student in Dan-dong city of China. Wearing hoodies, Lu and her classmates came to a small Taiwanese market in front of the train station. It seems like they can’t live a day without eating Taiwanese fried chicken. For girls have similar ages or backgrounds, not only Taiwanese food, but also Taiwanese fashion is the most popular.

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