Nov 12, 2011

New challenge: Kanda Tsukemen Basho Oozeki

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About 5 p.m. I saw Rick at Lotteria (ロッテリア) near by JR Ochanomizu station (JR御茶ノ水駅).
He was then going to attend a continuation of his friend's wedding party (結婚式の二次会) from 6:30 p.m. in Ginza (銀座) after he parted from me.
(He did not attend the wedding party itself.)
I received a comment (or a sermon?) from him on my paper which I gave him yesterday.

After I parted from him at Subway Ochanomizu station (地下鉄御茶ノ水駅), we went to Kanda Jinbo-cho (神田神保町) by walk in order to buy hayauri Weekly Shonen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ) there.
And after that I wandered around Jinbo-cho without purpose.

Then by chance I found out a sigh board by the roadside of Yasukuni dori street (靖国通り) (see photo below.)
At first I was planning to visit a spaghetti shop at Akihabara (秋葉原) but I changed my mind at once.


Sign board of Oozaki

So I visited Kanda Tsukemen Basho Oozeki (神田 つけ麺場処 大関).
This shop has just started a business at Nov. 1 this year.


Outside of Oozeki

Inside the shop there was only one male customer before me.
And there were four staffs, three men and one woman.
Expect the master they were probably all foreigners, one man must be Chinese or Taiwanese, one women Korean, which I judged by their accents with which they spoke in Japanese.
So I was not able to tell where the rest of them, one man was from because he was not able to speak in Japanese fluently.

All of staffs were very amiable and gave me another glass of water again and again.

I chose "Oozeki" (大関) tsukemen (large-sized, 750 g) (690 yen).
This shop serves "Mae-gashira" (前頭) (small, 300 g,) "Komusubi" (小結) (normal, 450 g,) "Sekiwake" (関脇) (middle, 600 g,) and "Oozeki" as default at 690 yen. Relatively reasonable!
And also "Yokoduna" (横綱) (extra large, 900 g) is served at 940 yen.
As you would tell by looking at these names, the master of this shop loves Japanese sumo wrestling (相撲), which also the poster inside said.


Toppings


Oozeki (large-sized) tsukemen

Here was very thicker noodles. It was so chewy.
I prefer thicker and chewy noodles when I eat tsukemen.
Its soup was not bad but not good, quite ordinary. However, even I was full so much after I ate up all of 750 g of noodles.

I would not like to come back to this shop in order to enjoy its taste but in order to eat my fill at reasonable price, 690 yen.
I do not feel like taking my friends or my brother to this shop but obviously it is recommended more than Tensouden Gaku, Suehiro-cho (天想伝 楽@末広町).

After I left this shop, I went to Subway Yushima station (地下鉄湯島駅) by walk through Akihabara (秋葉原) in order to take Chiyoda line train (地下鉄千代田線).

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