Showing posts with label Jinbo-cho. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jinbo-cho. Show all posts

Nov 19, 2011

Unlucky man

*External link to the Japanese website
**External link to the website except written in Japanese

Today my schedule planned already two weeks before to see my old friend since high school student, Enshin was canceled due to he caught the flu (インフルエンザ) though he was the planner and it was also planned that our old friend Nakamura would come to see us from Koriyama city (郡山市) after attending his friend's wedding party in Tokyo.
He said to me so through the phone last night.

Unbelievable! What a unlucky man he is!
Why in hell might he need to catch the flu just before the appointed day, of all days!

Today it was raining heavily since before dawn.
About 7:45 p.m. I went to Kanda Jinbo-cho (神田神保町) with my brother through the rain in order to hayauri Weekly Shonen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ).

After that at first we visited "Ore no sousaku ramen Kiwamiya"* (俺の創作らぁめん 極や) which had just started a business since Oct. 23 in order to eat its tsukemen.
But its ticket maschine outside said that "tsukemen was sold out." Why?
One of its staffs answered, "tsukemen is going to start being served around next week."
Ok, no thank you! They should have announced so on the website!

Instead, next we visited "Tsukemen senmon-ten Akamugi"* (つけ麺専門店 あかむぎ), whose tsukemen we had never eaten.
When we arrived at the shop, the master came out in order to talk to us and said "sorry, noodles are already sold out." What?
You bastard! This is far from being a good ramen shop!

Oh, unlucky man, thou missedst the descent of Ramen-Satan to thyself.
And nobody except himself knows when the Second Coming would be done!

My brother said to me, "you are not responsible for missing tsukemen at these shops but I regard you as unlucky man."

There was no other choice for us then and there than to go to the shop which I had visited last week because we did not want to walk around in the rain any more.
So we arrived at Kanda Tsukemen Basho Oozeki (神田 つけ麺場処 大関).


"Oozeki" (large-sized) tsukemen

I chose "Oozeki" (large-sized) tsukemen (つけ麺 大盛「大関」) and my brother chose "Sekiwake" (つけ麺 中盛「関脇」) (690 yen each.)
We got seats at only one table in the innermost of the shop.

As mentioned when I visited here last, its soup is not bad but we got tired of it during eating.
My brother was not able to eat up his tsukemen all not only because he became full but also because he did not want to keep on eating it.
(I ate it up all but I was a little tired of it as well as my brother.)
Unnn..., their appealing point is nothing but reasonable price.

The staffs shut up the shop while we were eating tsukemen; we were the last customers who went out of the shop.
The master talked to me when they saw us off to the door, "you came to our shop last week, didn't you?"
Oops! Unluckily I got identified as myself by them though I do not hope to because I do not want to be found a regular customer!

About 9 p.m. we went to Shin-ochanomizu station (新御茶ノ水駅) in order to take Subway Chiyoda Line train (地下鉄千代田線).


My brother



By the way, I had had extremely bad diarrhea (下痢) which had started since last Saturday, as I stated before.
Water had carried on running out of my ass hole again and again all day long for about a week as if I had urinated like a woman.
I suspect that raw oysters I ate Thursday last week (Nov. 10) might cause such bad diarrhea.
However it seems that I recovered perfectly from diarrhea around today.
That was too much! How unlucky I was!

Nov 12, 2011

New challenge: Kanda Tsukemen Basho Oozeki

*External link to the Japanese website
**External link to the website except written in Japanese


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).