2026/8/29 We ate here for lunch on a bus tour. Due to the tour schedule, and because the previous tour group was still eating, we arrived at the restaurant around 2:30. The food was somewhat cold, but I figured it couldn't be helped. The rice seemed to have been served into a big bowl well in advance, so it was hard and cold. The shumai tasted good, but the wrappers were on the hard side. We had chilled steamed chicken, pork with black vinegar sauce, mapo tofu, almond tofu, and soup. Most tables had 4 people, but we were 7, and the portions seemed small, so it was hard to split them into 7. It would have been better as groups of 3 and 4. The taste wasn't anything special, just average.

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Looking at the menu, there aren't many of the usual Chinese restaurant dishes; most are Hong Kong-style. We ordered stir-fried three kinds of paprika with shredded beef, glass noodle and beef stew (mala) in a clay pot, Hong Kong-style typhoon shelter fried angel shrimp, and seafood yakisoba. The stir-fried three kinds of paprika with shredded beef wasn't strongly seasoned and was easy to eat. The glass noodle and beef stew (mala) clay pot, on the other hand, was true to Hong Kong clay pot style, with bold flavor and a tingling heat. The Hong Kong-style typhoon shelter fried angel shrimp falls short of the famous Hong Kong restaurants, but it's plenty delicious for something eaten in Tokyo. And the seafood yakisoba had more toppings than noodles, wasn't strongly seasoned, and was delicious.

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Weekday lunch visit. A Chinese restaurant on a street just a short walk from Tameike-Sanno Station. The menu seems to change once every 2 weeks, and this time I chose the curry-flavored stir-fried chicken (900円). Since the menu said "flavored," I thought the curry stir-fry would just have a hint of aroma, but it was full-on curry flavor! Spicy, but different from tandoori, an oily, mildly hot kick that goes amazingly with rice (〃ω〃) The heaping pile of rice shrank before my eyes and I finished it in no time!

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We had lunch here on a free Step Travel bus tour. First of all, I was surprised how tiny the portions were. Not enough even for a woman. The rice was long-grain white rice, which went perfectly with the mapo tofu.

Lunch on the free bus tour turned out to be here. When we entered, the young guy showing us to our seats did a terrible job, and all the participants ended up sitting in the wrong places. Some people had even already wiped their hands with the oshibori because that's where they'd been shown. I don't get why we wrote our names and number of participants and sent them in on a postcard. If they'd just guided us by saying, "Mr./Ms. 〇〇, party of 〇, your seats are here," there would have been absolutely no confusion. Also, our bus arrived earlier than scheduled, and we were asked to wait because the previous group was still there. They also had to clean up. And prepare our food. So we waited on the bus for about 10, 15 minutes. The food was already laid out on the tables, ready to eat as soon as we sat down. It took about 5 minutes for everyone to be seated (though there was a mess) and start eating. So why? The food was so cold. Completely cold. We waited on the bus and went in once they said it was ready, so it being this cold is just wrong. They could have kept it in a food warmer or come up with something. If they did use one, the temperature setting is wrong. What I hated most of all: if they'd said to share a large platter with friends or family, I'd understand. But being told to share with strangers sitting at the same table is 100% unacceptable. It's unhygienic and gross. It kills your appetite. With fried rice and mapo tofu, there's no set number per person, so I guess they measure so many grams per person and put it together on a big platter, but anything you can count should be served according to the number of people. The shumai and shrimp chili were one per person and there were enough for everyone, but the black vinegar sweet-and-sour pork-type dish had big chunks of meat, so they should have put in a number that divides evenly, whether one or two per person. Everything was just unpleasant. It didn't taste good either. Frankly, it tasted bad. The individual portions were already so small it made you go "huh?", and on top of that it was so bad I left most of it. Back on the bus, the tour guide asked how the food was, but as you could see, I had so many thoughts I couldn't sum it up in one word, and honestly that question was unpleasant too, so I wish they hadn't asked. When nobody said anything, they said, "I think what everyone's feeling is probably about the amount of food. It was probably too little," but I had way more complaints than that. You might be thinking, "We invited you for free, so don't complain." But the companions are paying. In fact, we'd pay extra to upgrade the food. You seriously need to give this more thought. There's a mountain of things that need improving. To anyone joining or planning to join a free bus tour, go in prepared. The bus driving (no rough driving, sudden braking, etc.) and the tour guide were flawless. They guided us politely and safely. You can rest assured on that.